Pete Millspaugh

I started eating ~90% vegan in early February of this year.

There are some daily activities that force us to unplug, like driving and showering.

This is half a decade late, but I still own a MATH hat and think about Andrew Yang’s run for president in 2020 occasionally.

I think about present me in relation to past and future me often.

I love what I think of as “orderly maximalist” design.

I’ve only planted a few seeds here.

I read Where You’ll Find Me by Ty Gagne.

I read The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron, but I have not yet committed to the full 12-week program.

As with Eat & Run, I don’t come away particularly liking Scott Jurek or thinking he’s a great writer after reading North.

Eat & Run and North are both entertaining books for the runner or running-interested.

I read Breath by James Nestor this week.

I read Born to Run by Christopher McDougall earlier this year and loved it.

When you’re already in a bad mood, getting the hiccups is just about the worst thing that could happen.

I have been reading more lately, and reading begets reading.

Reading books can be like running long distance.

When I’m in a decaying neighborhood on a cloudy day it makes me sad, but when I’m in that same neighborhood on a sunny day it makes me happy.

When working in large code files, I like to collapse code that I’m not editing to visually focus on what I am editing, without noise.

For the last three years—through these AI Everything Everywhere times—I’ve felt excited, overwhelmed, optimistic, pessimistic, assured, confused, powerful, powerless, energized, and fatigued.

I came across user-select in the vscode codebase.

I’ve been using the CSS nesting selector, &, for a few years to nest style declarations.

TL;DR: In JavaScript (browser runtimes, at least), this, self, window, frame, and globalThis all point to the same value (the Window object).

I read Josh Branchaud’s blog post about writing TILs for 10 years a few days ago, and it reminded me to write more TILs.

TL;DR: A Blob in JavaScript is read-only raw data that you can read, store, or send over a network.

The CSS revert-layer keyword allows you to reset a property’s value to that of the previous cascade layer.

CSS cascade layers determine the priority of different CSS sources.

I read How Not to Die by Michael Greger.

This is what I call a “Brainstorm” where I scribble down an offline thought stream then follow up later with the Internet to answer and correct myself.

I’m working through the O’Reilly Programming Rust book, which covers a multi-threaded implementation of the Mandlebrot set.

This morning I read panphora’s post on Bluesky about switching to a dot com domain.

Raw strings in Rust are a nicely designed language feature.

i might switch to lowercase. no capital letters in texts, tweets, slack, notes, git commits, etc.

You’ve probably seen those latency-numbers-every-programmer-should-know lists like Vercel’s and Sam Rose’s (really cool, btw) and Jonas Bonér’s (the original, I think).

This is the first piece of writing I’ve planted in my garden that’s not remotely related to programming.

A year ago I wrote about silly TLDs, but this morning I learned about a more serious side to TLDs when I read Paul Butler’s tweet about the possible forced retirement of all .io domains.

Carlo Francisco gave a ~15m talk a couple days ago at the Browsertech WASM event in NYC (~7:30 to 23:50) covering Notion's use of WASM SQLite in the browser.

After a few years of coding professionally, I finally tried this one line of code: anywhere.js debugger; The debugger; statement sets a breakpoint in your code, pausing execution at that point if you have a step-through debugger available, like in browser…

What could you plant in a malleable garden?

There isn’t just one universal standard for cron expression syntax, as far as I can tell.

A lot has happened since January.

Devoting time to self-study Computer Science is a classic debate for the self-taught, bootcamp grad programmer like me.

I read A Small Matter of Programming by Bonnie Nardi with some others in the Future of Coding book club.

I just wrote my first Rust program.

Sometimes people link to my website in a Tweet, on Hacker News, or on their blog.

I added a feedback form at the bottom of each post in my garden using membrane.io.

The browsertech NYC meetup was a whole lot of fun.

Seen in Bytes yesterday: Nested loops aren’t ideal, but sometimes they’re unavoidable.

We are starting a Future of Coding (FoC) book club!

On March 12th, Google will replace First Input Delay (FID) in Core Web Vitals with Interaction to Next Paint (INP).

I just planted the first clipping from my digital garden.

I read Hackers & Painters by Paul Graham, who I’ll call PG for brevity (it’s also his nickname, I think).