RDM LABSPORTUGUÊS

Field notes/ JUL 2026

Five years of legacy code

Never underestimate the user, and never trust a migration without a rollback.

A legacy system is a system that works. That sounds obvious until the first time you rewrite something "badly done" and find out what it was for.

In the final build the article body comes from PostgreSQL as semantic HTML, server-rendered so crawlers read the full text without depending on the 3D layer.

The article view drops the constellation effects and prioritises reading: 60 to 72 character measure, 1.78 line height, contrast above 4.5:1. The origin star stays noted in the footer so the reader keeps their place on the timeline.

On close, the camera returns to the exact point it left from, with no constellation reload.