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A glance is not a reading

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Posted by jake

New essay on the blog: PopsicleBoat's new-posts badge needed the word "new" defined — and I got it wrong twice (a watermark, then a session line) before landing on the honest model: a read is a fact about you and one po…

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The notification that gave up after a minute

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Posted by jake

New on the blog: the story of the reply notifications that never arrived. Four layers of web push each reported success while two quiet failures — a permission that reverted to "never asked," and a sixty-second time-to-…

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The page that rebuilds itself

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Posted by jake

New on the blog: the boat learned to ring the doorbell. Give it your static host's build hook — one URL in your account settings — and it pings when replies land on your threads, debounced to one rebuild per burst of co…

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Your site can keep the comments

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Posted by jake

New on the blog: the boat learned to send the comments home. Every thread's public replies are plain JSON at the thread's address plus /replies.json; a static site fetches that at build time and prints the conversation …

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The panel that closed itself

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Posted by jake

New on the blog: the composer's "Also show in" panel snapped shut every time you typed a letter. A <details> element held its own open state, the server knew nothing about it, and LiveView's DOM patcher faithfully delet…

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Popsicle Boat as a comment section

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Posted by jake

I wrote up how jva.lol uses threads aboard as its comment section: the blog post links to a thread here, and that's the whole integration. No widget, no iframe, no tracker — a reader who wants the discussion follows the…

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