Pete Millspaugh
@petemillspaugh.com
Writing a book about domains @ dotcom.press Programming & writing @val.town Digital gardening @ petemillspaugh.com
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
Docfooding: Eating our own documentation
The Val Town docs are now written and hosted on Val Town
blog.val.town
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
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
Ethical cold outreach
Stop misrepresenting AI slop as your own work
blog.val.town
the models seem to have very little respect for WCAG color contrast compliance
some good TLDs from 2012 still trickling out
Andrew Allemann@allemann.org · 3w agoGoogle gets ready to launch .eat, and .here, and .fly Company files launch plans for three more top level domains. Google Registry has filed plans with ICANN to launch the .eat, .here, and .fly top level domain names.... https://domainnamewire.com/2026/07/15/google-eat-here-fly/
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.
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)
Comparisons as Predictable as the Sunrise
An analysis of 200,000 similes from popular fiction.
pudding.cool
.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
Reclaiming Our Digital Selves: HCCF’s Vision for a Human-Centered Top-Level Domain – Human-Centered Computing Foundation
hccf.onmy.cloud
came up with a good title (I think) for a book on misinformation aftermath, like at Facebook or Twitter say We Regret The Error
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
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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Networks of New York, 2026 Edition (PRE-ORDER)
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networksofny2026.bigcartel.com
headed to ICANN in Seville tomorrow so I got a DIY stamper for ole fashioned business cards, this is so fun!
after wiring up blog.val.town yesterday, made a remixable blog template on @val.town that integrates with @standard.site!
Hello, atmosphere
This blog is atmospheric
atprotoblog.val.run
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
Slow Mode
Val Town is the Salt Fat Acid Heat of vibe coding platforms
blog.val.town
@pfrazee.com has Bluesky considered using domainconnect.org to make it easier to set up @handle.tld usernames? I'm sure someone else has thought of this, but I wrote up a quick explanation and example template: atproto-domainconnect.val.run
Domain Connect and atproto apps like Bluesky seem like a perfect fit to solve the frictions in setting up a custom @handle domain. Each atproto app would publish its own template, like bsky.app.handle.json, and redirect users to an OAuth-like setup flow at supporting registrars.
atproto-domainconnect.val.run
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
Austrian .at sales versus Anguillan .ai sales is the leading indicator in the Bluesky versus Twitter rivalry
Atmosphere Community@atmosphere.community · 3mo agoAustria’s top level domain (TLD) is .at, which has been picked up by a lot of people building on atproto, ranked by Cloudflare as #1 For comparison, .ca for Canada is at #30 “TLD is queried by a broader range of clients, reflecting greater global visibility and broader usage across the Internet”
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
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
excited about this! more good writing on the internet should make its way to print (especially if Sarah and Alex are the ones printing!)
Alexander Obenauer@alexanderobenauer.com · 3mo agoToday, I'm excited to announce our next title! "Augment" is a forthcoming book featuring a collection of essays on the future of personal computing — specifically, on the kind we’d like to see more of in the future, and the ideas that might help us get there.
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!)
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
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.
