the good: pretty easy to make super lightweight components with inline css and js. a+ for speed-obsessed web dev. the bad: super super hard to learn, very easy to mess up, generally quite bad error messages.
under the hood, been using webc for a few things on my blog, for the @observablehq.com plot chart on macwright.com/2026/04/05/i..., the theme selector, and youtube embeds.
i'd say it's 2/10 DX, 9/10 magic, technology that fills me with both joy and fear www.11ty.dev/docs/languag... finally posted thoughts about the atmosphere conf (along with an illustration and a bunch of tweaks to the blog) macwright.com/2026/04/05/i... just to serve mode.css to do light/dark/auto theme switching without having to put js on every page :/ it's super tiny but alas gist.github.com/tmcw/2015bda... it's satisfyingly large art irl, too
illo for an article i'm trying to publish. been in writing/editing/watercoloring/making-a-chart mode for three hours unexpectedly tonight. felt good to get in a ""flow state"", though the article still isn't what i want it to be.
ai agents filling out quarterly 360 reviews
stack-ranking subagents
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 ![- [[Fiberplane]]
- 2023: Debug your infrastructure in collaborative notebooks
- 2024: Test and debug your Hono API
- 2025: The API playground for Hono
- 2026: Build better MCP servers
- Later 2026: Agent-Native Issue Tracking
- [AthenaHQ](https://athenahq.ai/)
- January 2025: Streamline Your Clinical Trials End-to-End
- June 2025: Empowering Next-Gen Marketing Teams in Enterprise
- January 2026: Dominate AI Search Results
- Basedash
- 2020: Edit your database with the ease of a spreadsheet
- 2022: The CMS for your database
- 2024: Connect your database. Get an admin panel.
- 2026: AI-Native Business Intelligence
- Textile:
- 2018: Building new digital experiences by focusing on user privacy, transparency, and decentralization.
- 2019: IPFS [Textile](https://web.archive.org/web/20190702164516/https://textile.io/)
- 2020: IPFS [(archive)](https://web.archive.org/web/20200805133501/https://textile.io/)
- 2021: IPFS [(archive)](https://web.archive.org/web/20210629152552/https://www.textile.io/)
- 2022: Tableland (crypto product that let you query data in tables) [Welcome to Tableland](https://blog.textile.io/welcome-to-tableland)
- 2025: Recall labs (crypto/ai product that lets you bet on which ai models are good) [(writeup)](https://flat-agustinia-3f3.notion.site/Our-mission-is-to-accelerate-the-exchange-of-information-across-society-28ddfc9427de8148973cc33aa49bd3f2)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bxmukjuf2e6z6tvpmklbbern/bafkreic3qdtrmaxp67hqof3kc7p6m6d2wq4al5dxjsvgqudigblp7qwwbm)
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...