Devlog #7 — Camera, live updates & the tick loopThis session was the one where it started actually feeling alive.Camera
controls first. Three modes — follow, rotate, free. “Follow” mode
smoothly pans the globe to the ISS position every 2.4 seconds with a
900ms animation. Feels really clean, like the camera is actually
tracking something. “Rotate” just spins the globe on its own. “Free” is
hands-off, user controls everything. Also wired up the day/night texture
toggle — one click switches between the blue marble and the night
lights texture.Found a bug: setStatus() is missing
a space — “led” + cls produces “ledlive” instead of “led live”. The LED
will never change color because the class name is wrong. One character
fix.Then the tick() function. This is the
heartbeat of the whole app. Runs on an interval, calls stateAt(now),
updates the marker position, updates all the telemetry readouts — lat,
lng, altitude, speed, orbital period, illumination. Everything live.