Pete Millspaugh

Hello!

My friend Azeem is working on a baseball video game called The Ump Show where you get to be the umpire (so cool!).

What would you say...you do here?

I just learned the word “blogroll”—first seen on Manu Moreale’s blog.

This Show ’n’ tell is a Seedling that I planted a couple years ago.

The “random” in Random Access Memory (RAM) means any location in memory can be read just as easily as another.

This is my third “Brainstorm”, a writing format where I scribble down an offline thought stream with questions then follow up later with research.

I began using Anki in July of last year to aid my memory and learning.

While working on weeksofyour.life, I experimented with HTML contenteditable.

While working on weeksofyour.life, I experimented with the CSS ch unit.

I made a website where you can visualize your life in weeks, grouped by decade: weeksofyour.life Any feedback is welcome!

While writing about thinking small, I came up with a new expression (new to me, at least): slippery scope Slippery scope is wordplay on “slippery slope”, meaning something that snowballs into something bigger, and “scope”, meaning the defined boundaries of

I like writing and coding in my free time.

I read Richard Hamming’s The Art of Doing Science and Engineering.

I sent my first newsletter, which I am calling Clippings, in January 2024.

Cloudflare email routing makes it trivial to stand up an email address on your custom domain.

I wrote this show 'n' tell in November 2023 about the first val I ever made on Val Town.

To control scroll behavior when reaching the boundary of a scrolling area, use overscroll-behavior. styles.css body { overscroll-behavior: auto; /* default */ overscroll-behavior: contain; overscroll-behavior: none; } I used overscroll-behavior: none; to…

I originally wrote this as a private journal entry, then pushed it to a private (now public) GitHub repo to timestamp it for myself.

Pagefind is a neat open source client-side search library.

I am always irked by the last word of a sentence or heading wrapping onto the next line.

This is my second “Brainstorm”, a writing format where I scribble down an offline thought stream with questions then follow up later with research.

To represent edited text in HTML, there are a few semantically distinct options.

I stumbled upon some special characters available at arm’s length while writing my Brainstorm on downloading a map in the woods.

I was curious how much state I could actually store in a serverless, shareable way for a tiny weekend project I’m thinking about.

I’ve known there are a bunch of novel TLDs (top-level domains) since the first time I bought a domain, but I didn’t quite appreciate the extent of it until seeing porkbun.com/awesome.

Update: after I started using all: unset, I realized that the convenience tradeoff is probably not worth the danger and loss of precision.

I was talking to a coworker today who mentioned that he wrote some blog posts for LogRocket.

The <Image> component from Next.js automatically converts PNG images to WebP.

Up in the top right corner of the screen, there’s a little light bulb.

This is my first attempt at a new, experimental writing format I’m calling “Brainstorms”.

In May I was talking to a friend who had just graduated from a CS undergrad program, and he mentioned that he was creating a website.