Today we met S. ████████ and Pouya of █████ Cloud. I found their office to be amazingly human, something that I have not seen elsewhere. And their attitude towards work and life was interesting to me. Hope good things come out of this.
Lava Scroll is important, because the framing is more important than the content, since the “Medium is the Message”.
We forgetting the name of inventors and their stories and intents is pure medium is the message.
Rewrote the whole LavaScroll shader with Signed Distance Field for Rounded Rectangle computation and new Meta Balls algorithms. The heavily optimized the rendering and fixed the size computations. All the problems the Archive suffered from LavaScroll are now fixed.
How often do we, as frontend engineers, overlook the URL as a state management tool? We reach for all sorts of abstractions to manage state such as global stores, contexts, and caches while ignoring one of the web’s most elegant and oldest features: the humble URL.
