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New comment by petemilly in "From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth"

petemilly — Wed, 06 May 2026 22:53:06 +0000

This comment thread was a nudge to push out a quick experimental change to the val.town landing page, so thank you. Very open to feedback on that messaging if anyone has any. Most customers these days ask about using val town with claude code, so you could also think of us as a deployment platform for vibe coded apps

New comment by petemilly in "From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth"

petemilly — Wed, 06 May 2026 22:50:27 +0000

Hey, I work at Val Town, and we definitely struggle to describe what it is because the platform is so broad, but I'll try: a javascript code editor in the browser that auto-deploys that code to our servers whenever you edit a file. You can run code by clicking a button, on a cron, via HTTP. And there's other stuff like SQLite and blob storage

So yes, like Cloudflare Workers in some ways. Or like CodePen but fullstack. Or Replit. The val town "founding poem" was:

> If GitHub Gists could run,

> And AWS Lambda were fun

New comment by petemilly in "DNS Explained – How Domain Names Get Resolved"

petemilly — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 20:24:20 +0000

> You can change which resolver you use in your network settings. I switched to 1.1.1.1 on my machines - it's noticeably faster than my ISP's default resolver.

Noticeably faster as in just loading a website? Or in some script where small differences add up? I thought typical DNS lookup was sub 100ms, but I've never tried switching my resolver so I'm curious

Show HN: TLD Wiki and Explorer

petemilly — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 13:41:02 +0000

Hello! I made a top-level domain explorer and wiki with all 1,592 TLDs in IANA's root zone database.

Would appreciate any feedback or feature ideas. At the very least I'd like to add filter/sort.

Source code is public on my repo and val.town: 1. github.com/pmillspaugh/dotcom.press/pull/16 2. val.town/x/petermillspaugh/tld-wiki

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45481408

Points: 1

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New comment by petemilly in "How to find a domain for your startup"

petemilly — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 12:36:31 +0000

This is a first draft blog post version of a talk I'm giving at a startup conference next week. I am looking for feedback.

Please comment here or reply on the blog itself if I got something wrong or you have something to add. Personal anecdotes and cited sources are great, but I'm also curious to hear end-of-the-bar opinions.

Thank you!

How to find a domain for your startup

petemilly — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 12:36:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.petemillspaugh.com/domains-for-startups

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45436961

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

The browsercompany just signed a merger agreement to be acquired

petemilly — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 12:17:01 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/joshm/status/1963575851062071314

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45126391

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by petemilly in "Ask HN: How can we keep (part of) the web human?"

petemilly — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 20:14:39 +0000

https://blogroll.org is a neat project that curates personal blogs. One of the curators (Manu) also has a weekly blogger interview series that I enjoy: https://peopleandblogs.com

Google banned me from Google Voice

petemilly — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 16:47:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.dannyguo.com/blog/google-banned-me-from-google-voice

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42078324

Points: 248

# Comments: 145

Think Small

petemilly — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 18:02:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.petemillspaugh.com/think-small

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39158029

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Choosing to Remember with Anki

petemilly — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 21:57:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.petemillspaugh.com/anki

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38905576

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

My next, next, next job

petemilly — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 13:00:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.petemillspaugh.com/my-next-next-next-job

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38878612

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by petemilly in "Show HN: Weeks of Your Life"

petemilly — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 13:57:57 +0000

Great! Thanks for following up.

And yep, the browser date picker (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/in...) is a major time saver. This project uses the native color picker, too.

New comment by petemilly in "Show HN: Weeks of Your Life"

petemilly — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 13:55:38 +0000

Oh nice, I hadn't heard of Bliss.js, but the creator (https://lea.verou.me/) is great.

New comment by petemilly in "Show HN: Weeks of Your Life"

petemilly — Mon, 25 Dec 2023 03:54:26 +0000

Oh cool, I didn't know about field-sizing. Thanks.

And yeah, this definitely set off my alarm bells like "maybe I shouldn't be using React here." I guess the initial goal was just getting something that works out there using the thing I know best (React), and the second phase could be a rewrite using a better tool for the job-open to any thoughts and suggestions on that.

New comment by petemilly in "Show HN: Weeks of Your Life"

petemilly — Mon, 25 Dec 2023 03:39:54 +0000

I was thinking about this, too. Allowing setting a date of death felt pretty morbid...

New comment by petemilly in "Show HN: Weeks of Your Life"

petemilly — Mon, 25 Dec 2023 03:38:59 +0000

Thanks. And yeah, I was talking to my roommate about enabling edits in the future. I guess the spirit of the site is letting each person do with it what they wish, so I suppose I should open up future dates for edits.

New comment by petemilly in "Show HN: Weeks of Your Life"

petemilly — Mon, 25 Dec 2023 03:33:58 +0000

Thanks for pointing this out (all comments in this subthread). I just updated the date picker to only re-render the grid of weeks when the input is unfocused (onblur) and avoid the unnecessary intermediate updates. Still more work for me to address lag, but hopefully that helps.

New comment by petemilly in "Show HN: Weeks of Your Life"

petemilly — Mon, 25 Dec 2023 03:30:48 +0000

Feel free to fork the repo and run locally! https://github.com/pmillspaugh/weeksofyourlife

Maybe I could add an export feature that downloads the data in a .csv or something. The URL storage is definitely a bit wonky, but more robust persistence felt like overkill (maybe I'm wrong about that, though!).

New comment by petemilly in "Show HN: Weeks of Your Life"

petemilly — Mon, 25 Dec 2023 03:23:50 +0000

Thanks for pointing this out. I just updated it to only re-render the grid of weeks when the date input is unfocused (onblur) rather than unnecessarily updating the grid while you're still entering the date.