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Build Log · August 22, 2026

Building Lincoln's YouTube Channel Site

Built a public promo site for Zeb's son Lincoln's YouTube channel, went through a real WebGL crash investigation, and landed on a fast, crash-proof static site themed on the channel's own artwork.

  • Personal Project
  • Web App
  • Next.js
new product shipped
1

new product shipped

real assets wired in (logo + 4 game art pieces)
5

real assets wired in (logo + 4 game art pieces)

WebGL/3D dependencies remaining (fully removed)
0

WebGL/3D dependencies remaining (fully removed)

Timeline

  1. Start

    Charge received

    Lincoln (Zeb's son) wants a website to grow his YouTube channel, Legendary Game Squad

  2. Early

    Base site built

    Hero, video gallery, membership perks, socials — clean Next.js static site, working first try

  3. Mid

    Horror theme + real 3D scene requested

    Escalated from CSS reskin to a full react-three-fiber forest+shack scene using real CC0 assets

  4. Mid-late

    Repeated WebGL Context Lost crashes

    Cut scene complexity 3 times without success — wrong theory each time

  5. Late

    Root cause found

    React StrictMode dev-mode double-mounting exhausted the browser's WebGL context budget across a long dev session — not a hardware limit

  6. Close

    Pivoted to channel-art theme

    Removed all 3D/animation entirely per Lincoln's direction; rebuilt around his real logo and game artwork

What shipped

  • products/legendary-game-squad/ — new Next.js 15 + React 19 static site, own package.json, deploys independently

  • Hero section built around the channel's real logo image, with soft-fade blend into the page background

  • Video gallery wired to 4 real YouTube Shorts (fetched titles/thumbnails from YouTube's public thumbnail CDN) plus 2 placeholder slots

  • Membership perks section (early access, shoutouts, behind-the-scenes, giveaways, voting)

  • Artwork strip showing 4 real game-art images (bow, diamonds, portal, skater) supplied by Lincoln, served via next/image for automatic compression

  • Discord/YouTube social links section

  • app/config.ts as the single edit point for channel content (documented in README.md)

“I have a pretty powerful machine. this should not be happening”
— Lincoln, after the third failed attempt to fix the crash by cutting scene complexity — the correction that led to finding the real root cause
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