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Pete Millspaugh @petemillspaugh.com · 26/09/2026

hello Wisconsin, my 40th US state petemillspaugh.com/40-states

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Pete Millspaugh @petemillspaugh.com · 21/09/2026

Not your mother's CSS As with any time spent fiddling with CSS, I had a good time writing this!

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Pete Millspaugh @petemillspaugh.com · 09/09/2026

LLMs take "strong opinions, weakly held" way too far

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Pete Millspaugh @petemillspaugh.com · 08/09/2026

I am out on purposeful typos to "prove" that your email/etc is not written by ai (seeing more and more of this in tech company marketing email)

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Pete Millspaugh @petemillspaugh.com · 04/09/2026

i think i want a printer for longform articles/blog posts or--and ik this would be super wasteful--i could make an rss-to-print thing on @val.town

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Pete Millspaugh @petemillspaugh.com · 01/09/2026

I wrote about trying (and failing) to let ai write for me title is a riff on @henrikkarlsson.bsky.social's henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/search-query

blog.val.town

A docs page is a very long and complex search query to find wandering AI agents and make them route interested people to your company

On AEO

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Pete Millspaugh @petemillspaugh.com · 31/08/2026

The Public Suffix List is “just a list” dotcom.press/archive/public-suffix-list

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Pete Millspaugh @petemillspaugh.com · 20/08/2026

abottom.org i've been reaching for "abottom" more and more, so i formalized my effort to spread the word (literally)

abottom.org

“abottom” - a useful word

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Pete Millspaugh @petemillspaugh.com · 13/08/2026

btw, these new domain endings should be of much greater interest to the @bsky.app (atproto) community than your average internet jane/joe because of the incoming flood of expressive @handle.tld options

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Pete Millspaugh @petemillspaugh.com · 13/08/2026

ICANN's gTLD application window closed last night and bigger-than-2012 (last round) stuff is already happening lfg.link applied for 316, more than anyone in 2012 (it'll cost $71 million in application fees alone!) some interesting strings in there...going to thread until I run out of steam

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Pete Millspaugh @petemillspaugh.com · 05/08/2026

we migrated the @val.town docs to val town, which was full of AX/DX/UX tradeoffs (to borrow @jim-nielsen.com's framing) anthropomorphized potato pothole doodle by @jxnblk.bsky.social

blog.val.town

Docfooding: Eating our own documentation

The Val Town docs are now written and hosted on Val Town

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Pete Millspaugh @petemillspaugh.com · 31/07/2026

Domains by the numbers dotcom.press/archive/domains-by-the-numbers although probably nicer to read on the website^, this is well suited to a thread, so here goes

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Pete Millspaugh @petemillspaugh.com · 28/07/2026

a couple weeks ago, we got a “personalised” video pitch from a startup, but the guy in the video was not a person at all

blog.val.town

Ethical cold outreach

Stop misrepresenting AI slop as your own work

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Pete Millspaugh @petemillspaugh.com · 20/07/2026

the models seem to have very little respect for WCAG color contrast compliance

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Pete Millspaugh @petemillspaugh.com · 16/07/2026

some good TLDs from 2012 still trickling out

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Pete Millspaugh @petemillspaugh.com · 16/07/2026

Håkon Wium Lie (creator of CSS) is a very interesting person - apparent just by reading the intro on his personal site: wiumlie.no > I'm a founding member of the Norwegian Pirate Party. I support CAPSoff. I oppose daylight saving time.

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Pete Millspaugh @petemillspaugh.com · 10/07/2026

this webpage (and its top-level domain) is as cool as a summer breeze pudding.cool/2026/05/simi... (via @janefriedman.com’s great newsletter)

pudding.cool

Comparisons as Predictable as the Sunrise

An analysis of 200,000 similes from popular fiction.

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Pete Millspaugh @petemillspaugh.com · 06/07/2026

betting on fires is such a bad idea 😞

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Pete Millspaugh @petemillspaugh.com · 30/06/2026

.self is yet another interesting Community TLD bid going public before the application window closes There are also community applicants for .meow, .agent, .furry, .tree

hccf.onmy.cloud

Reclaiming Our Digital Selves: HCCF’s Vision for a Human-Centered Top-Level Domain – Human-Centered Computing Foundation

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Pete Millspaugh @petemillspaugh.com · 28/06/2026

came up with a good title (I think) for a book on misinformation aftermath, like at Facebook or Twitter say We Regret The Error

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Pete Millspaugh @petemillspaugh.com · 23/06/2026

I’m sure someone suggested this before, but why didn’t “bluep” (pronounced BLOOP) catch on as Bluesky’s “tweet” verb? what if when you hit Post the app made a little bluep sound

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Pete Millspaugh @petemillspaugh.com · 17/06/2026

bubbles.town ("hacker news but independent blogs") is an interesting sample of TLD diversity on the indie web among the 30 front page links today: .dev, .xyz, .art, .me, .space, .eu, .day, .lol, .co.uk, .studio

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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 15/06/2026

networksofny2026.bigcartel.com/product/netw... hi, did you like my book Networks of New York when it came out in 2016? you might like the updated 2026 edition which I'll be releasing in September and you can pre-order now

networksofny2026.bigcartel.com

Networks of New York, 2026 Edition (PRE-ORDER)

SHIPPING SEPTEMBER 2026! Networks of New York is a book by me, Ingrid Burrington. It helps readers identify indicators of physical internet and telecommunications infrastructure in New York City. Usin...

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Pete Millspaugh @petemillspaugh.com · 05/06/2026

headed to ICANN in Seville tomorrow so I got a DIY stamper for ole fashioned business cards, this is so fun!

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Pete Millspaugh @petemillspaugh.com · 03/06/2026

after wiring up blog.val.town yesterday, made a remixable blog template on @val.town that integrates with @standard.site!

atprotoblog.val.run

Hello, atmosphere

This blog is atmospheric

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Pete Millspaugh @petemillspaugh.com · 02/06/2026

integrated the @val.town blog with @standard.site :) our blog doesn't have a build step, so I vibe coded (in "slow mode" 😉) our own atproto publishing pipeline: val.town/x/valdottown/blog/branch/main/code/atproto/README.md

blog.val.town

Slow Mode

Val Town is the Salt Fat Acid Heat of vibe coding platforms

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Pete Millspaugh @petemillspaugh.com · 26/05/2026

alright, I'm doing it - trying to make "abottom" happen 1. it's shorter than "at the bottom" 2. people will get it, because "atop" let's get this thing in the dictionary

There’s an editor status bar abottom the code editor with logs, editor settings, and the Deno Language Server

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.meow @dotmeow.org · 24/05/2026

If you could make your own gTLD (.com, .meow, .org) what would it be?

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Pete Millspaugh @petemillspaugh.com · 21/05/2026

Austrian .at sales versus Anguillan .ai sales is the leading indicator in the Bluesky versus Twitter rivalry

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Pete Millspaugh @petemillspaugh.com · 20/05/2026

vibe coding without understanding what's going on feels like I'm a child whose parent took over my school project I don't feel good when I'm done, and I sure won't be able to answer any questions in show 'n' tell tomorrow

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Pete Millspaugh @petemillspaugh.com · 19/05/2026

Slow Mode blog.val.town/slow-mode

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Pete Millspaugh @petemillspaugh.com · 19/05/2026

TIL peta[dot]org was registered by a troll in 1995 for a "People Eating Tasty Animals" site, which unsurprisingly went to court and eventually PETA got it back *but* in the meantime they fought fire with fire and bought ringlingbrothers[dot]com to criticize circus animal cruelty

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Pete Millspaugh @petemillspaugh.com · 18/05/2026

excited about this! more good writing on the internet should make its way to print (especially if Sarah and Alex are the ones printing!)

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Pete Millspaugh @petemillspaugh.com · 15/05/2026

Unique identifiers dotcom.press/archive/unique-identifiers

excerpt from https://www.dotcom.press/archive/unique-identifiers

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Pete Millspaugh @petemillspaugh.com · 14/05/2026

doodling for a blog post on @val.town as "the Salt Fat Acid Heat of vibe coding" (as in: don't turn your brain off, learn to cook/code!)

SALT FAT ACID HEAT cover side by side with CREATE READ UPDATE DELETE derivative

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Pete Millspaugh @petemillspaugh.com · 14/05/2026

How on earth did I not know about html <small> It's just the sort of pointless detail I love Kicking myself for not fulling reading @patrickweaver.net's "A Blog Post With Every HTML Element" a few years ago

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Alexander Obenauer @alexanderobenauer.com · 12/05/2026

This Friday, I'm excited to share details on an upcoming title we're working on at Buddy Bindery & Press, plus how you can help us make it great. Stay tuned for more.

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Pete Millspaugh @petemillspaugh.com · 08/05/2026

I'm reading Jane Jacobs for the first time, and I'm interested but tbh it's a bit of a slog. Part of the problem is just that the neighborhood examples are over half a century old, so maybe I need a condensed, updated version

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Pete Millspaugh @petemillspaugh.com · 07/05/2026

Hadn’t noticed until just now that Wired uses wrd.cm for link shortening - first Cameroon ccTLD I can remember seeing in the wild! Added to the wiki dotcom.press/tld-wiki?tld=cm @katie-drummond.bsky.social is that new?

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Pete Millspaugh @petemillspaugh.com · 04/05/2026

would recommend spelunking @archive.org for cozy old domain uses

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Pete Millspaugh @petemillspaugh.com · 01/05/2026

I get the sense texting (and writing elsewhere) in all lowercase is strongly considered a gen z thing these days, but I learned in @gretchenmcculloch.com's Because Internet that it was a Unix hacker thing (great book, btw)

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Pete Millspaugh @petemillspaugh.com · 30/04/2026

ICANN's 2026 gTLD application window opens today -- big year for domains! Wrote a bit about the round a few weeks ago dotcom.press/archive/domainia

dotcom.press

Dot Com Press

Publishing for the internet age.

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Pete Millspaugh @petemillspaugh.com · 16/04/2026

fun new game I play with myself at random: when a phrase pops into my head that I think would be a good name for a podcast, I look it up, and it almost always already exists (today “Funny Business” came to mind which I imagined as a behind-the-scenes show about the work life of a comedian)

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Pete Millspaugh @petemillspaugh.com · 16/04/2026

long overdue: rss feed for the book dotcom.press/archive/rss.xml

dotcom.press

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Pete Millspaugh @petemillspaugh.com · 10/04/2026

I moved my manuscript from Obsidian to Scrivener (keeping my research notes in Obsidian), and so far so good They hooked me a while back with clever h1 wordplay ("See the forrest *or* the trees") and I finally bit

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Pete Millspaugh @petemillspaugh.com · 09/04/2026

just published an essay on the @val.town blog: *Code is inert. Val Town makes it ert* blog.val.town/code-is-inert inspired by this sentence in @ftrain.bsky.social's "What is Code" essay 11 years ago > Code is inert. How do you make it ert?

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