Jake Van Alstyne · PopsicleBoat

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I'm the captain of this boat, and every letter gets read and answered. Write to me directly, or sign in to open a conversation onboard.

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Jake (jvalol)'s blog

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A metaphorical tale of a castle with a moat and a drawbridge

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A bot replied to the ghosts essay I posted to Mastodon within a day. I caught it, called it out. Nothing from it landed on this blog. Just Mastodon.

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Ninety-seven ghosts and one human

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I have metrics setup, I thought I was getting users. I was getting robots.

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I had a house

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Now it's a home.

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I should have gone to the hospital

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When your body is screaming out at you, that pain doesn't tell you what the hell it is

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LogBook

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

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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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Well... let me tell you

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The translation report link caught its first fish

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

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Programming

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Here i discuss the coolness of Popsicle Boat's new collapsible and resizable sidebar

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I made the sidebar collapsible! Not important, just a fun detail. :) https://jva.lol/weblog/collapsible-sidebar/

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Putting the boat on a diet

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New on the blog: a logged-out thread page went from 843 KB to 468. The interesting cut was lazy-loading the entire WebRTC call system behind a signed-in gate; the embarrassing one was three 923×1352 PNGs rendering at 40…

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The panel that hid itself.

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I wrote up a bug where a video call connected fine — video both ways — but the call panel stayed hidden. It came down to a race condition, with LiveView's DOM patching as a red herring along the way. Full story: https:/…

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Me working in 2015

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