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Putting the boat on a diet

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Posted by jake

New on the blog: a logged-out thread page went from 843 KB to 468. The interesting cut was lazy-loading the entire WebRTC call system behind a signed-in gate; the embarrassing one was three 923×1352 PNGs rendering at 40…

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The panel that closed itself

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Posted by jake

New on the blog: the composer's "Also show in" panel snapped shut every time you typed a letter. A <details> element held its own open state, the server knew nothing about it, and LiveView's DOM patcher faithfully delet…

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Popsicle Boat as a comment section

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Posted by jake

I wrote up how jva.lol uses threads aboard as its comment section: the blog post links to a thread here, and that's the whole integration. No widget, no iframe, no tracker — a reader who wants the discussion follows the…

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In which I fix a bug with PopsicleBoat

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Posted by jake

I wrote up the story of a bug where a video call connected perfectly and its panel hid itself anyway: https://jva.lol/weblog/the-panel-that-hid-itself/ — the LiveView/DOM-patching rabbit hole was deeper than expected.

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