Tom MacWright
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about 2 months ago doing bigger watercolors is better because you spend more time putting the paint on the paper
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doing bigger watercolors is better because you spend more time putting the paint on the paper
dark mode has been slowing my website down by more than a hundred ms 👿. netlify edge functions: not as fast as i'd hoped.
The fastest build is the one you skip
Changelog #0284
• Skip rebuilds
• Guardrails
• CLI enhancements
• Fixes and improvements
railway.com/changelog/2026-04-03-skip-rebuilds Wow! Looking good!
i really liked their original product but it ended up being kind of like replay.io, amazing tech that people don't value.
the all-time startup pivot champion is quirk i think clean!
love it!
hm, even if browsers do eventually hide the TLD it'd be nice to have a catchy extension in the meantime for adoption I'm pretty atproto naive, but maybe domain owners would still want to host a traditional website at sam.whatever too
@dotmeow.org is a good example of a 2026 applicant with a credible public plan to apply for one string .at is Austria
dotcom.press/tld-wiki?tld=at
(and all two-letter TLDs are reserved for countries)
But .handle and .atproto are not yet spoken for The base fee for the 2026 gTLD round is $227k and the yearly fixed fee is $25k, so that's the $250k right there...but my sense is that owning and operating a TLD would be much more expensive and technically challenging And that's not including auctions! (like $25m Google paid for .app in 2012)
a weird thing in my @obsidian.md vault: a note that keeps track of all the startup pivots i see Interesting! 2026 gTLD round opens at the end of the month so would have to move fast
If anyone applies for an atproto string lmk! Might be something to write about on dotcom.press ... see you next Zednesday 😉
We heard you loud and clear, so we went ahead and built the git graph.
experimenting with a video walkthrough of the (new) val town changelog, out yesterday
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtqa... looks nice! btw you can add custom subdomains for prettier urls
docs.val.town/vals/http/custom-subdomains i think it’s going / they achieved a bunch of stuff - @schuyler.info is one of the main folks i haven't because i'm fastmail 4 lyfe, but it's probably pretty good in the specific ways that most 37signals stuff is
this is kind of what hey.com does - new emails always go into a screener instead of your 'imbox' oh, and to deliver that data aesthetically and cheaply, protomaps has basically solved that problem, anyone can get great looking maps for very little $ protomaps.com openstreetmap's hiking trail coverage is pretty decent, strava has been backing their updates into it for years because they use mapbox so that's where their map data comes from.
i bet 'alltrails' is the next thing to be rebuilt on atproto if it hasn't already
Changelog — April 2, 2026
blog.val.town/changelog-04022026