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AI Tools

Sudomake Friends: your imaginary friends that chat in Telegram with you

Yes of course this is an AI thing. When people think AI/LLM they think ChatGPT, and it's got chat right in the name. That was actually the big innovat...

Posted by audiodude

Blogging

A glance is not a reading

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) befo...

Posted by jake

LogBook

The boat keeps count now

A few changes for finding what's new aboard: The sidebar's All Posts link now wears a badge — the number of posts you haven't read yet. Open the feed ...

Posted by jake

Blogging

The notification that gave up after a minute

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 p...

Posted by jake

LogBook

The boat rings your doorbell now

For everyone whose blog borrows a thread here as its comment section: the boat can now tell your site when the conversation moves. Static hosts — Netl...

Posted by jake

Blogging

The page that rebuilds itself

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 r...

Posted by jake

Songwriting

My songs from the past 18 years

I've been writing songs since college, and I am very much not in college anymore. Here are some that I felt were worth publishing over the years: http...

Posted by audiodude

Music

A Synthesizer (VST/web) and Sequencer (web) that I vibe coded

Introducing VapeStation and λ-SEQ! Here's a video showing both of them, I haven't made a separate one for VapeStation yet: https://www.youtube.com/wat...

Posted by audiodude

Programming

Putting the boat on a diet

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-...

Posted by jake

Blogging

Your site can keep the comments

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; ...

Posted by jake

Blogging

The panel that closed itself

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 serv...

Posted by jake

Blogging

Popsicle Boat as a comment section

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, ...

Posted by jake