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Building PopsicleBoat in public. I add things when it makes sense and try to avoid noise, but sometimes I just say things.

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What PB (PopsicleBoat) has been up to the last couple weeks

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Posted by jake

A batch of small changes, mostly about putting things where they belong. If your thread belongs to a blog post, the email about a new reply now carries two links: the thread here, and the post there. Cards on the boat d…

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Why did I call it PopsicleBoat?

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Posted by jake

Well... let me tell you

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The translation report link caught its first fish

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Posted by jake

Yesterday I added a small link under the language picker: "Does this read wrong?" Today it brought the first report, about the Ukrainian translation, from someone who left no address. They said the translation is ridicu…

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What's new, late July

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Posted by jake

PopsicleBoat updates: profile background images, a tidier profile page, a Feedback link, and branded error pages.

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Keeping track of what's new

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Posted by jake

A few changes for finding what's new: The sidebar's All Posts link now shows a badge — the number of posts you haven't read yet. Open the feed and those posts are listed under "New since your last visit," each linking t…

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Build hooks: your site rebuilds when replies land.

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Posted by jake

For blogs using a thread here as their comment section: It can now tell your site when a new reply comes in. Static hosts (Netlify, Vercel, Cloudflare Pages, etc.) offer build hooks: a URL that rebuilds your site when s…

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How the boat is built

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Posted by jake

One person builds and maintains this boat. It's written in Elixir and runs on a couple of small servers. No ads, no trackers. The analytics count pages, not people. Every space has an open feed you can read from any fee…

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What this Logbook is

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Posted by jake

This is the one place I post news about the boat itself — new features, fixes, the occasional change of direction. A few promises: entries are occasional, not chatty. The little dot you might see next to "Logbook" in th…

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