Pete Millspaugh—programmer, writer

I’m writing a book about The Secret Life of Internet Domains and working at val.town. This is my digital garden—welcome! Tug on the edison bulb to turn off the lights, ⌘+K to search, trees and links in the footer. Contact me at pete@petemillspaugh.com

Writing

There are 123 pieces of writing planted in the garden. Here’s a sampling of my work from the garden and elsewhere.

Domains

• A Brief History of Domains ✦
• You can’t spell Anguilla without AI
• ICANN is not a boring bureaucracy
• Dot meow: like selling Subarus to lesbians
• TLD Wiki ✦

Programming

• The nature of the job
• Weeks of your life ✦
• A malleable garden
• Edison bulb
• Cultivating email

Concepts and such

• Unhurried ambition
• Present you
• Think small
• Shwords
• Editorial rigor
• My next, next, next job

Book things

• Write your book like you’d run a startup ✦
• A Small Matter of Programming
• On Writing

Newsletter

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