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An SVG is all you need

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iamsal ◴[] No.46238672[source]
Even though the article is mostly talking about visualizations, but I thought I'd share that I did at one point build a dance choreography software that renders the UI entirely SVG. I was surprised as to how well that worked.

If you're curious, it's called StageKeep, and you can find it here. https://stagekeep.com/

The original project used React Three Fiber, but refactored it to SVG for reasons I don't quite remember. I was inspired by signed distance functions, and the fact that one function could have such an outsized visual effect. Although the software doesn't use SDFs, but I like the idea of atomic functions that accepts some input, and outputs SVG.

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1. great_tankard ◴[] No.46239861[source]
Very cool. Are you a dancer yourself?
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2. iamsal ◴[] No.46240678[source]
Heh, thanks.

I wish I was a dancer.

That said, the founder who hired me to work on this is a dancer.

He hired me because he liked the fact that during the interview, when asked "what do you know about dance", I responded "I used to crip walk when I was in high school", so I was the top choice just for that, haha.

Edit: the Founder is Axel Villamil, and he's super charismatic. Y'all are going to love him. Here's him trying to raise an investment round https://www.instagram.com/reel/CyhL5kitUbD/

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3. petercooper ◴[] No.46243239[source]
That is the best reason I've ever heard a developer win an interview with.