I moved my manuscript from Obsidian to Scrivener (keeping my research notes in Obsidian), and so far so good
They hooked me a while back with clever h1 wordplay ("See the forrest *or* the trees") and I finally bit
Footnote: What is Code is Paul Ford's famous essay in the June 2015 issue of Bloomberg Businessweek. B-list famous in some programmer circles, anyway. The essay is practically a novella: 38,000 words divided across seven sections (chapters?). The scrollbar on the web version is stubby, hard to even see, and you get a sardonic "Certificate of Completion" at the bottom for reading it. The web version also has all sorts of interactivity and easter eggs. Scroll through the paragraphs too quickly and you'll see, "Are you reading my essay, or looking at my essay?" I've never read the print version, but I've searched around for an old copy more than once, so please do email me if you know where I could get my hands on one (seriously).
and might as well shoot my shot from the footnote...
@ftrain.bsky.social I'd love to find a print copy of that 2015 Bloomberg Businessweek issue - do you know where I could find one?
Paul meant ert=compiling but here it's ert=deploying
just published an essay on the @val.town blog:
*Code is inert. Val Town makes it ert*
blog.val.town/code-is-inert
inspired by this sentence in @ftrain.bsky.social's "What is Code" essay 11 years ago
> Code is inert. How do you make it ert?
I never thought to doodle on envelopes, love this!
asked chat "can you pitch planet money a story?" and it pitched me six stories lol
but I really meant, like, does @planetmoney.bsky.social *accept* pitches
(because boy do I have a good one!)
dotcom.press blurb
new blurb who dis
dotcom.press
a book's website is a nice place to riff on things you'll eventually print on the physical book (title, backcover/flap blurb, bio, etc.)
improved my TLD wiki and wrote about the 2026 round:
dotcom.press/archive/domainia
huge thanks to @case.bike for collecting the data behind the wiki!
example of 400% zoom
Ah, thanks for sharing! Guess I'll stick with left-justification since they've done the research. I didn't think of readability at e.g. 400% zoom (screenshotted here for reference)
I wonder if their recommendation extends to printed books which are almost always fully justified w hyphens
without `text-align: justify` and `hyphens: auto`
with `text-align: justify` and `hyphens: auto`
I'm considering switching to `text-align: justify` with `hyphens: auto`...
are there any gotchas? I don't like hyphens breaking up anchor links, but other than that?
I'm leaning toward the visual balance being worth the looser text tradeoff
clean!
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)
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
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
credit @stevekrouse.com for the rec! (via @geoffreylitt.com I believe)
just switched from mac native dictation to aquavoice.com and it's so, so much better
means a lot coming from Sam!
:)
dot org is not not for profit
dotcom.press/archive/dot-org
in which:
- .org domains were supposed to be for nonprofits
- but pretty soon anyone could register one
- in 2019 ICANN removed 10% price increase cap
- then PIR sold .org to private equity
- ICANN said LGTM
- California AG said not so fast
“No kings yas queen”
“What a faux king loser”
“Super callous fragile sexist racist nasty potus”
March down Walnut St
good no kings turnout in Cincinnati!
I wrote a few months ago that exhaustively reading r/domains on Reddit was like "an MBA in domains," but I've realized DNW is the real domains MBA
@allemann.org's domainnamewire.com has been an exceedingly useful resource for my domain book research
hats off to Andrew on *21 years* of domain reporting! amazing consistency - well worth a follow if you're domain-curious
I recorded a video walkthrough of the latest val town blog post as a “draft” that would never see the light of day, then @stevekrouse.com said let’s just use it, so I was accidentally not too nervous/tight recording haha
jack in a box
jack under the tree
dot meow: the next queer corner of the Internet
(like selling Subarus to lesbians)
dotcom.press/archive/dot-meow
write-up on @dotmeow.org's cool TLD bid!
in memory of my childhood cat "one-eyed jack" (who was two-eyed when these pictures were taken)
Bringing back the video version (which @stevekrouse.com used to do), inspired by @cassidoo.co's video newsletter and an old note from @simonwillison.net that I stumbled upon - thanks Cassidy and Simon :)
- youtube.com/watch?v=58pxBkr24s8
- simonwillison.net/2024/Feb/15/val-town-newsletter-15
wow, thank you! I am a fan of your writing, too!
