Jake, a technologist and blogger at jva.lol, admitted to using AI as an editor for his writing despite promising not to, and has added controls to disclose AI involvement. He defended his use of AI as…
A developer with 20 years of experience says AI tools have become so effective that hand-tuning work is a thing of the past, citing a photo edit that cost cents and took minutes. The author, who runs …
A developer has automated posting blog entries with companion comment threads on PopsicleBoat, using a script that scaffolds a Hugo page bundle and a git commit hook to wire the thread URL into the po…
Popsicle Boat, a hobby project by Jake, is now available in 23 languages besides English, with translations generated by AI in an afternoon. Jake, who speaks English and German, verified the German tr…
Popsicle Boat, a commenting system for static sites, now supports comments with two redirects, enabling readers to submit comments via a plain HTML form that POSTs to Popsicle Boat's endpoint, which p…
A developer published a blog post and two shell scripts, new-post and companion-prompt, that automate scaffolding Hugo weblog posts and wiring comment threads on Popsicle Boat. The scripts prompt for …
Jake Bauer's blog now publishes posts with a comment section baked into the static page, using a custom integration with Popsicle Boat that fetches replies at build time and updates via Netlify build …
Jake, the developer behind PopsicleBoat, announced improvements to his third-party commenting system that lets bloggers add comment sections to posts via an API key, with content stored in a JSON file…
Jake, creator of Popsicle Boat, has developed a Claude skill that simplifies creating blog comment threads hosted on Popsicle Boat, reducing the process to about five steps. The skill aims to provide …
A blogger who experimented with AI-generated cold emails reports that recipients detected the language as not his own, leading him to conclude that AI text has a recognizable 'tell' and that he must u…