Eschatia: Devlog 3

Just made a big update. Eschatia now has 20 destinations with points of interest, increased from the original 10. The Discoveries page is also now live, and the landing page has been adjusted in its ui.

The Discoveries page pulls live data from NASA’s JWST archive and surfaces the 40 most recent science observations in Eschatia’s visual language. Getting the API working took several rounds of debugging. The endpoint I expected returned a 404, the response structure was different from the documentation, and the edge function couldn’t read environment variables until I switched runtimes.

The landing page starfield got rebuilt from scratch. The original was 200 CSS-animated divs. The new one is a canvas animation where stars fly toward the viewer from a central vanishing point, like warping through space. I tried star trails first but they made the background too noisy, so I pulled them back to crisp dots which ended up looking cleaner anyway.

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