feat: extract conversation data to json

hester.json

@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+[
+    { "character": 1, "text": "hows space"},
+    { "character": 0, "text": "trying to work out if the coffees shit but"},
+    { "character": 0, "text": "my sense of taste is just not happening :/"},
+    { "character": 1, "text": "maybe you're being spared"},
+    { "character": 0, "text": "ur right"},
+    { "character": 0, "text": "ship swill is a delicacy to exactly no one"},
+    { "character": 0, "text": "at least the caffeine still works"},
+    { "character": 1, "text": "lol"},
+    { "character": 1, "text": "you probably got your own stash for later though, right?"},
+    { "character": 1, "text": "knowing you"},
+    { "character": 0, "text": "oh yea i got some on nimbus"},
+    { "character": 0, "text": "donchuu worry"},
+    { "character": 0, "text": "how about you?"},
+    { "character": 0, "text": "new job soon, right?"},
+    { "character": 1, "text": "induction tomorrow wish me luckk"},
+    { "character": 0, "text": "break a leg!"},
+    { "character": 1, "text": ":)"}
+]
+

main.js

@@ -1,39 +1,3 @@
-// how to we communicate...
-// * in flight 
-// * arrived! (probably) <- this is the tricky one. we know enough time has passed for the message
-// * received               to have been received, but we are only halfway to the earliest possible
-// * read                   acknowledgement.
-//
-// we know the length of the roundtrip: it is 2x the light lag. progress bars show a passage of time,
-// it could scroll:
-// * along the bottom of the message
-// * across the message
-//     * as it is being sent, a transluscent red bar grows from right to left (towards their messages)
-//     * while we are waiting for acknowledgement, a similar blue bar brows from left to right
-// * next to the message
-
-messageData = [
-    // c for character
-    { c: 1, text: "hows space"},
-    { c: 0, text: "trying to work out if the coffees shit but"},
-    { c: 0, text: "my sense of taste is just not happening :/"},
-    { c: 1, text: "maybe you're being spared"},
-    { c: 0, text: "ur right"},
-    { c: 0, text: "ship swill is a delicacy to exactly no one"},
-    { c: 0, text: "at least the caffeine still works"},
-    { c: 1, text: "lol"},
-    { c: 1, text: "you probably got your own stash for later though, right?"},
-    { c: 1, text: "knowing you"},
-    { c: 0, text: "oh yea i got some on nimbus"},
-    { c: 0, text: "donchuu worry"},
-    { c: 0, text: "how about you?"},
-    { c: 0, text: "new job soon, right?"},
-    { c: 1, text: "induction tomorrow wish me luckk"},
-    { c: 0, text: "break a leg!"},
-    { c: 1, text: ":)"}
-];
-
-let pings = 0;
 const startTime = Date.now();
 
 var conversation = null;
@@ -199,7 +163,7 @@ class Conversation {
         if (!messageData)
             return false;
 
-        return messageData.c == 0;
+        return messageData.character == 0;
     }
 }
 
@@ -348,11 +312,11 @@ function getRandomDelay(min, max) {
 
 function updateChat(message) {
     addMessage(message);
-    document.getElementById("textbox-input").value = conversation.getTypedMessageText();
+    const previewText = conversation.getTypedMessageText();
+    document.getElementById("textbox-input").value = previewText;
     updatePings();
 }
 
-
 function pressSendButton() {
     // we have interacted with the page so remove all pings
     clearPings();
@@ -380,7 +344,7 @@ function onMessageSent(message) {
     updateChat(message);
 }
 
-function init() {
+function init(messageData) {
     conversation = new Conversation(messageData, "Hester Gomez", onMessageReceived, onMessageSent);
     conversation.start();
 
@@ -390,5 +354,6 @@ function init() {
     startLightLagUpdateLoop();
 }
 
-init();
-
+fetch("hester.json")
+    .then(response => response.json())
+    .then(json => init(json));