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Tom MacWright @macwright.com

11 days ago

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.

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Tom MacWright @macwright.com

11 days ago

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...

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Tom MacWright @macwright.com

11 days ago

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...

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Tom MacWright @macwright.com

12 days ago

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...

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Tom MacWright @macwright.com

12 days ago

it's satisfyingly large art irl, too

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Tom MacWright @macwright.com

12 days ago

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.

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Tom MacWright @macwright.com

12 days ago

ai agents filling out quarterly 360 reviews

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Tom MacWright @macwright.com

12 days ago

stack-ranking subagents

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Tom MacWright @macwright.com

12 days ago

doing bigger watercolors is better because you spend more time putting the paint on the paper

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Tom MacWright @macwright.com

12 days ago

dark mode has been slowing my website down by more than a hundred ms 👿. netlify edge functions: not as fast as i'd hoped.

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Railway @railway.com

14 days ago

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

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Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com

14 days ago

Wow! Looking good!

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Tom MacWright @macwright.com

14 days ago

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

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Pete Millspaugh @petemillspaugh.com

14 days ago

clean!

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Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com

14 days ago

love it!

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Pete Millspaugh @petemillspaugh.com

14 days ago

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

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Pete Millspaugh @petemillspaugh.com

14 days ago

@dotmeow.org is a good example of a 2026 applicant with a credible public plan to apply for one string

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Pete Millspaugh @petemillspaugh.com

14 days ago

.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

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Pete Millspaugh @petemillspaugh.com

14 days ago

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)

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Tom MacWright @macwright.com

14 days ago

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)

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Pete Millspaugh @petemillspaugh.com

14 days ago

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

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Zed @zed.dev

14 days ago

... see you next Zednesday 😉

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