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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!

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

first time I've licensed a cartoon! this particular cartoon was pinned to the bulletin board outside the dining hall at the summer camp I went to and worked at for eight summers, and as far as I know it's still there

"Stop and Think." Sam Gross, The New Yorker.

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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 · 01/05/2026

updated my garden note...and interestingly enough (I don't remember writing it) I'm not so sure about the tattoo bit anymore

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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 · 09/04/2026

and might as well shoot my shot from the footnote... @ftrain.bsky.social I'd love to find a print copy of that 2015 Bloomberg Businessweek issue - do you know where I could find one?

Footnote: What is Code is Paul Ford's famous essay in the June 2015 issue of Bloomberg Businessweek. B-list famous in some programmer circles, anyway. The essay is practically a novella: 38,000 words divided across seven sections (chapters?). The scrollbar on the web version is stubby, hard to even see, and you get a sardonic "Certificate of Completion" at the bottom for reading it. The web version also has all sorts of interactivity and easter eggs. Scroll through the paragraphs too quickly and you'll see, "Are you reading my essay, or looking at my essay?" I've never read the print version, but I've searched around for an old copy more than once, so please do email me if you know where I could get my hands on one (seriously).

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Pete Millspaugh @petemillspaugh.com · 06/04/2026

new blurb who dis dotcom.press a book's website is a nice place to riff on things you'll eventually print on the physical book (title, backcover/flap blurb, bio, etc.)

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Pete Millspaugh @petemillspaugh.com · 06/04/2026

improved my TLD wiki and wrote about the 2026 round: dotcom.press/archive/domainia huge thanks to @case.bike for collecting the data behind the wiki!

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Pete Millspaugh @petemillspaugh.com · 06/04/2026

Ah, thanks for sharing! Guess I'll stick with left-justification since they've done the research. I didn't think of readability at e.g. 400% zoom (screenshotted here for reference) I wonder if their recommendation extends to printed books which are almost always fully justified w hyphens

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Pete Millspaugh @petemillspaugh.com · 06/04/2026

I'm considering switching to `text-align: justify` with `hyphens: auto`... are there any gotchas? I don't like hyphens breaking up anchor links, but other than that? I'm leaning toward the visual balance being worth the looser text tradeoff

without `text-align: justify` and `hyphens: auto`

with `text-align: justify` and `hyphens: auto`

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Pete Millspaugh @petemillspaugh.com · 28/03/2026

good no kings turnout in Cincinnati!

“Super callous fragile sexist racist nasty potus”

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Pete Millspaugh @petemillspaugh.com · 27/03/2026

dot meow: the next queer corner of the Internet (like selling Subarus to lesbians) dotcom.press/archive/dot-meow write-up on @dotmeow.org's cool TLD bid! in memory of my childhood cat "one-eyed jack" (who was two-eyed when these pictures were taken)

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Pete Millspaugh @petemillspaugh.com · 12/03/2026

dusted off the door buzzer val for the party today

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Pete Millspaugh @petemillspaugh.com · 20/02/2026

in 2015 google put up a backwards homepage on com.google with a CSS transform they still use the .google brand tld for some things, like registry.google

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Pete Millspaugh @petemillspaugh.com · 19/02/2026

TIL that "top posting" in email replies (now the norm) is considered bad email etiquette

(top posting joke)
A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
Q: Why is top posting frowned upon?

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Pete Millspaugh @petemillspaugh.com · 18/02/2026

more doodling and writing on the job blog.val.town/talk-of-the-town-feb-2026

"Talk of the Town" illustration for blog.val.town

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

snowy run to the library to drop off and pick up some books

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Pete Millspaugh @petemillspaugh.com · 03/02/2026

started playing with mcp servers today and built a little one with just one tool to look up country by ccTLD val town for the server and @cloudflare.social's ai playground for testing is a nice feedback loop

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Pete Millspaugh @petemillspaugh.com · 01/02/2026

I like how gwern.net hyperlinks have ::after hints like “W” for Wikipedia links

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Pete Millspaugh @petemillspaugh.com · 21/01/2026

Why are there so many C words in AI? Claude Code, ChatGPT, Cursor, Copilot... I noticed that all the Townie slash commands in @val.town start with /c ...which maybe @jxnblk.bsky.social did on purpose?

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Pete Millspaugh @petemillspaugh.com · 20/01/2026

a favorite part of my new job is getting to* doodle for blog posts, like this octocat (drawn with my mouse in @excalidraw.com lol) *not just getting to, but encouraged to

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Pete Millspaugh @petemillspaugh.com · 26/12/2025

Reading about @dpla.bsky.social in John Palfrey’s book Bibliotech, and they use a nifty domain hack! dp.la (which is the ccTLD for Laos)

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Pete Millspaugh @petemillspaugh.com · 23/10/2025

I put together a timeline of domain history from DNS to 2026 gTLDs. Inspired by @deno.land's Brief History of JS and @neal.fun's Internet Artifacts (which is amazing if you haven't read through it before!) dotcom.press/history-of-domains