Pete Millspaugh
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Writing a book about domains @ dotcom.press
Digital gardening @ petemillspaugh.com
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📢 Introducing The Val Town MCP Server
Bring Val Town to your favorite LLM – Cursor, ChatGPT, Zed, wherever! AI coding, instant deployments, built-in SQLite
For example, here we use Claude Code to make a blog in a couple prompts
Learn more & get started 👉 blog.val.town/mcp
Bring Val Town to your favorite LLM – Cursor, ChatGPT, Zed, wherever! AI coding, instant deployments, built-in SQLite
For example, here we use Claude Code to make a blog in a couple prompts
Learn more & get started 👉 blog.val.town/mcp
November 14, 2025 at 3:04 PM
📢 Introducing The Val Town MCP Server
Bring Val Town to your favorite LLM – Cursor, ChatGPT, Zed, wherever! AI coding, instant deployments, built-in SQLite
For example, here we use Claude Code to make a blog in a couple prompts
Learn more & get started 👉 blog.val.town/mcp
Bring Val Town to your favorite LLM – Cursor, ChatGPT, Zed, wherever! AI coding, instant deployments, built-in SQLite
For example, here we use Claude Code to make a blog in a couple prompts
Learn more & get started 👉 blog.val.town/mcp
ICANN is not a boring bureaucracy: internet governance drama buried in acronyms
dotcom.press/archive/icann84
Writing about ICANN reminded me of my favorite David Foster Wallace essay, Authority and American Usage ("Did you know that US lexicography even *had* a seamy underbelly?")
dotcom.press/archive/icann84
Writing about ICANN reminded me of my favorite David Foster Wallace essay, Authority and American Usage ("Did you know that US lexicography even *had* a seamy underbelly?")
Dot Com Press
Publishing for the internet age.
www.dotcom.press
November 4, 2025 at 4:46 PM
ICANN is not a boring bureaucracy: internet governance drama buried in acronyms
dotcom.press/archive/icann84
Writing about ICANN reminded me of my favorite David Foster Wallace essay, Authority and American Usage ("Did you know that US lexicography even *had* a seamy underbelly?")
dotcom.press/archive/icann84
Writing about ICANN reminded me of my favorite David Foster Wallace essay, Authority and American Usage ("Did you know that US lexicography even *had* a seamy underbelly?")
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
dotcom.press/history-of-domains
October 23, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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
dotcom.press/history-of-domains
@terrenceobrien.bsky.social's article on Twitter's secondary marketplace for handles reminds me of the secondary market for domain names, including the perpetual renewal cost
theverge.com/news/802474/x-is-launching-a-marketplace-for-inactive-handles
theverge.com/news/802474/x-is-launching-a-marketplace-for-inactive-handles
X is launching a marketplace for inactive handles
X is launching a Handle Marketplace where Premium subscribers will be able to search and request usernames that have been unavailable.
www.theverge.com
October 21, 2025 at 3:13 PM
@terrenceobrien.bsky.social's article on Twitter's secondary marketplace for handles reminds me of the secondary market for domain names, including the perpetual renewal cost
theverge.com/news/802474/x-is-launching-a-marketplace-for-inactive-handles
theverge.com/news/802474/x-is-launching-a-marketplace-for-inactive-handles
By a strange coincidence Anguilla is the country where AI has had the biggest (proportional) economic impact so far...
dotcom.press/archive/anguilla
dotcom.press/archive/anguilla
October 14, 2025 at 1:09 PM
By a strange coincidence Anguilla is the country where AI has had the biggest (proportional) economic impact so far...
dotcom.press/archive/anguilla
dotcom.press/archive/anguilla
September
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#5 — September 2025
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October 3, 2025 at 4:41 PM
September
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August 2025
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#4 — August 2025
Pete Millspaugh's digital garden
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September 3, 2025 at 4:39 PM
August 2025
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Wholesale domains
dotcom.press/archive/wholesale-domains
dotcom.press/archive/wholesale-domains
August 21, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Wholesale domains
dotcom.press/archive/wholesale-domains
dotcom.press/archive/wholesale-domains
@b0rk.jvns.ca's How DNS Works is a treasure chest of technical domain rabbit holes for dotcom.press
(my favorite being root-servers.org)
(my favorite being root-servers.org)
How DNS Works
wizardzines.com
July 22, 2025 at 5:52 PM
@b0rk.jvns.ca's How DNS Works is a treasure chest of technical domain rabbit holes for dotcom.press
(my favorite being root-servers.org)
(my favorite being root-servers.org)
I wrote about my "why" in this month's garden clipping: petemillspaugh.com/july-2025
July 17, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I wrote about my "why" in this month's garden clipping: petemillspaugh.com/july-2025
I'm writing a book!
July 17, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I'm writing a book!
TIL Amazon has a domain registry (AWS "Route 53")
June 17, 2025 at 12:49 PM
TIL Amazon has a domain registry (AWS "Route 53")
I’m rooting for a JavaScript Conference 2026 sponsored by @deno.land 🤞
deno.com/blog/deno-v-oracle3
(Sign the petition if you haven’t already!)
deno.com/blog/deno-v-oracle3
(Sign the petition if you haven’t already!)
Deno v Oracle Update 3: Fighting the JavaScript Trademark
Oracle has filed a partial motion to dismiss our fraud claim. We’re now waiting on the USPTO to weigh in.
deno.com
April 12, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I’m rooting for a JavaScript Conference 2026 sponsored by @deno.land 🤞
deno.com/blog/deno-v-oracle3
(Sign the petition if you haven’t already!)
deno.com/blog/deno-v-oracle3
(Sign the petition if you haven’t already!)
I took for granted that browser default styles wouldn’t change, but: developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/h1-element-styles
One point for having a heavy CSS reset and adding back default margins etc
One point for having a heavy CSS reset and adding back default margins etc
Default styles for h1 elements are changing | MDN Blog
Browsers are starting to roll out changes in default UA styles for nested section headings. This post describes the incoming changes, how to identify if it's an issue on your websites, and hints for c...
developer.mozilla.org
April 12, 2025 at 1:27 PM
I took for granted that browser default styles wouldn’t change, but: developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/h1-element-styles
One point for having a heavy CSS reset and adding back default margins etc
One point for having a heavy CSS reset and adding back default margins etc
I just finished Eat & Run, and I read Born to Run and How Not to Die before that. Looking for more books in that theme (eating plants, running)
February 20, 2025 at 12:32 AM
I just finished Eat & Run, and I read Born to Run and How Not to Die before that. Looking for more books in that theme (eating plants, running)
Came across two more lovely spins on @busterbenson.com's busterbenson.com/life-in-weeks
@ginatrapani.org's weeks.ginatrapani.org and Rafał Pastuszak's days.sonnet.io
@ginatrapani.org's weeks.ginatrapani.org and Rafał Pastuszak's days.sonnet.io
Life in Weeks
My life, where each week I’ve been alive is a little box. When meaningful things happen (for both better and worse) I make a note of it so I can remember how much of life is influenced by these factor...
busterbenson.com
February 16, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Came across two more lovely spins on @busterbenson.com's busterbenson.com/life-in-weeks
@ginatrapani.org's weeks.ginatrapani.org and Rafał Pastuszak's days.sonnet.io
@ginatrapani.org's weeks.ginatrapani.org and Rafał Pastuszak's days.sonnet.io
I haven't heard much about Remix lately, but turns out React Router still has more monthly downloads than Next.js (47M vs 32M in Jan '25)
February 15, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I haven't heard much about Remix lately, but turns out React Router still has more monthly downloads than Next.js (47M vs 32M in Jan '25)
Love this. The Alan Kay story reminds me of some cold emails I'm very glad I sent
February 11, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Love this. The Alan Kay story reminds me of some cold emails I'm very glad I sent
"wormcan" might be a good name for a muck raking journalism company/publication
February 11, 2025 at 2:15 PM
"wormcan" might be a good name for a muck raking journalism company/publication
I've been experimenting with a "brainstorm" format in my garden where I dump out an offline thought stream then follow up with some light research. I had fun learning about JS specs, engines and runtimes here
petemillspaugh.com/javascript-engines-and-runtimes
petemillspaugh.com/javascript-engines-and-runtimes
What should I know about JavaScript engines and runtimes?
Pete Millspaugh's digital garden
www.petemillspaugh.com
January 26, 2025 at 5:34 PM
I've been experimenting with a "brainstorm" format in my garden where I dump out an offline thought stream then follow up with some light research. I had fun learning about JS specs, engines and runtimes here
petemillspaugh.com/javascript-engines-and-runtimes
petemillspaugh.com/javascript-engines-and-runtimes
I'd forgotten that you can throttle CPU in browser devtools Performance tab like you can emulate slower connections in the Network tab. Pretty useful
January 10, 2025 at 8:21 PM
I'd forgotten that you can throttle CPU in browser devtools Performance tab like you can emulate slower connections in the Network tab. Pretty useful
One of my favorite LLM use cases is chat with docs. Stripe has had it for a while, and I just noticed Vercel has it (experimental). Quite useful
January 9, 2025 at 2:51 PM
One of my favorite LLM use cases is chat with docs. Stripe has had it for a while, and I just noticed Vercel has it (experimental). Quite useful
I'd love it if there were tons of mini dev courses that combined the high quality and hands-on structure of @joshwcomeau.com's courses with the bite-size utility of @b0rk.jvns.ca's zines
January 7, 2025 at 11:03 PM
I'd love it if there were tons of mini dev courses that combined the high quality and hands-on structure of @joshwcomeau.com's courses with the bite-size utility of @b0rk.jvns.ca's zines
My main programming languages:
2021: JavaScript
2022-: TypeScript
...earlier this year I thought 2024 might be Rust, but I haven't truly gotten deep into Rust yet
2021: JavaScript
2022-: TypeScript
...earlier this year I thought 2024 might be Rust, but I haven't truly gotten deep into Rust yet
December 31, 2024 at 2:00 PM
My main programming languages:
2021: JavaScript
2022-: TypeScript
...earlier this year I thought 2024 might be Rust, but I haven't truly gotten deep into Rust yet
2021: JavaScript
2022-: TypeScript
...earlier this year I thought 2024 might be Rust, but I haven't truly gotten deep into Rust yet