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I recently wrote about bots autonomously posting and how PopsicleBoat has defenses.

I have metrics to keep an eye on engagement on PopsicleBoat.

I lived alone in a house.

Yesterday I saved my own life.

I write a lot, most of what I write never gets put anywhere.

So, I had a girlfriend.

I’ve written about being terminally online, which I am 100% guilty of.

I called it PopsicleBoat because of a few reasons, I think.

The comment section here is static HTML.

“Terminally online” is usually an insult.

There’s an easter egg on this site now!

I’ve been using AI for over a year now.

I have had scripts to make things easier for a while, but I’m writing now because I’ve wired them all together to make posting here with a companion PopsicleBoat comment thread easier than ever.

PopsicleBoat is available in 23 languages besides English now.

This blog is static HTML using hugo.

Not a lot to it, just scripts/new-post and follow the prompts to setup the boilerplate.

Here’s the whole process of publishing a post on this blog now, comment section included.

Here’s what’s been going on with popsicleboat the latter half of July 2026. 1 - Background images on profiles.

It’s wild, I’ve been building this using my own blog as a testing environment.

I’ve written a Claude skill to make it easier to make a post here that has a comment section owned by this blog, but hosted and managed on PopsicleBoat.

While I’ve been working on PopsicleBoat, I’ve been looking at every possible angle I can think of to make it bloated as hell (just kidding).

(Yes, even this one.

I added a little badge to the PopsicleBoat sidebar recently.

A few new things on PopsicleBoat this week.

I added browser push notifications recently.

Last time, I added a feature so my blog can print its comments into the page at build time — plain JSON fetched while Hugo (how I build this blog) runs, rendered as paragraphs with no extra JS or any other dependency.

A fundamental premise for popsicleboat is no ads, no tracking, no scripts riding along on your site if you host your comments there.

The last post about this describes the arrangement.

I made it so posts can live in multiple spaces: An “Also show in” panel of checkboxes lets it appear in others.

The usual ways to put comments on a blog: a third-party widget, a self-hosted comment server, or silence.

Everything works the way it did before — these are additions, nothing you need to relearn.

PopsicleBoat has video calling.

If you’ve looked at the front page of this site lately, you may have noticed a little card pointing at popsicleboat.com.

Our Pony Express Adventure 1 # This weekend we sort of stumbled on some incredible things.

Chess and Logic # Chess and Logic, huh?

EDIT: This blog is now hosted using Hugo, not Jekyll.

I’ve recently taken on the task of setting up my YubiKeys for usage beyond 2 factor auth.

Time to put one of my spare Raspberry Pis to work # I woke up this morning and thought, ‘Hey why not get a full BTC node running on one of those Pis you got laying around?’

First a little background # I had a couple old NAS storage solutions I pulled out of, well, my storage unit a while back.