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Dan Levine

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Dan Levine @daniel-levine.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Try Val.town !!
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Barry Albrecht @balbrecht.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
It must have taken a machine to put Andreessen this far up his own ass.
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dan @danabra.mov · 30/04/2025
i’m sorry i don’t usually repost this kind of stuff but this is just so funny. there’s an intangibility to it..
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Dan Levine @daniel-levine.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Would love any feedback/friction log on @val.town if you’re up for it
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Miguel de Icaza @migueldeicaza.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Turn your Apple TV into a Tailscale exit node, or just access it remotely: tailscale.com/kb/1280/appl...
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Install Tailscale on an Apple TV · Tailscale Docs
Learn how to install Tailscale on an Apple TV.
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Dan Levine @daniel-levine.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Cc @pfrazee.com you all monitoring your video? Been having a lot of issues with it recently :(
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johnphamous @handle.invalid · 10/01/2025
used @ValDotTown to snipe the hard to get nintendo museum tickets 1. get the availability data—nintendo tried to prevent this, bypass is just spoofying a header 2. availability is int-encoded, pattern matched to find the open pattern 3. sends telegram message when open found
A list titled "YOUR CRONS" showing five tasks named "johnphamous/nintendo_museum_check" numbered 8-12, with progress bars and completion times ranging from 29 seconds to 14 minutes.
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Simon @hojberg.xyz · 09/01/2025
Finally had a moment to play around with @val.town. It's super fun! Hacking on a small workout planner and it's a fun way to get up and running with a few APIs very quickly.
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Matt Rossman @mattrossman.com · 07/01/2025
✍️ Wrote about how you can use @val.town to transform event data from local meetup sites, @notion.com, or wherever into dynamic feeds for your calendar apps. mattrossman.com/2025/01/06/t...
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Turning data into calendar feeds
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bao 🪼 @lei.fyi · 02/01/2025
Built a cipher game bao-cipher.web.val.run Just try to decode a letter substitution cipher as quick as you can. You can share the game link and compete against a friend. Initially it’s for my kid to practice in a competition, but it’s kinda fun and now I just keep playing it.
Screenshot of the cipher game.
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jordan @jdan.me · 28/12/2024
@tldraw.com computer and @val.town are besties
The screenshot showcases two distinct sections:

1. **Left Section: Diagram Editor**  
   A flowchart or workflow editor is open, showing a simple sequence:
   - A **start node** (circle) triggers the process.
   - A **data block** labeled "Custom" connects to an HTTP endpoint with the method set to "POST."
   - A **text block** displays the number "4," indicating output or result.

   The editor includes a toolbar on the left for adding elements like text, images, buttons, and toggles.

2. **Right Section: Code and Documentation in Val Town**  
   The interface on the right is part of Val Town, showing:
   - A code editor with JavaScript code for an HTTP endpoint. The code:
     - Imports a blob storage module.
     - Defines an async function that increments and persists a count.
     - Returns the updated count as plain text.
   - Documentation describing the endpoint's purpose: a simple counter stored in blob storage, accessible via an HTTP POST request.

The two sections illustrate the integration of a custom API (from Val Town) into a workflow visualized in the diagram editor.
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Dan Levine @daniel-levine.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | No, You Don’t Get an A for Effort
High marks reward excellence, not grit.
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Gustavo Karkow @gusk.ca · 18/12/2024
I've never released as many side projects as I did in late Nov early Dec. It's mainly thanks to @val.town, you should give it a try! Here are some highlights: - brainradio.fm - opnsrc.codes - whatshouldiwear.fyi - domainsanta.christmas - karkowg-lazycook.web.val.run
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Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · 17/12/2024
Introducing CerebrasCoder! An open-source app that generates websites with Llama3.3-70b from @cerebrassystems.bsky.social as fast as you can type. 100% free and open-source. (Inference in video is at 1x speed. Me typing sped up 3x.) cerebrascoder.com
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Vlad Sitalo @vlad.sitalo.org · 14/12/2024
Built on @val.town which has been helping me to overcome my "backend infrastructure PTSD" 🙃
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Dan Levine @daniel-levine.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
maybe better to cc @darcyclarke.me here... my bad for spam tom and darcy
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Chris Jennings @ckj.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
New hires @sentry.io get their own custom branded Sentry Keyboard on their first day, which becomes a trophy case of their accomplishments throughout their tenure at the company. Here's a quick write up/retro: sentry.design/blog/the-sen...
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Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · 11/12/2024
If you have an API, your users can extend your app with Val Town. I love to see it 😍
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Ellie Huxtable @ellie.wtf · 10/12/2024
I just had a play with @val.town and made this little "now playing" widget for my notes site! Took like 10 mins. Nice one @stevekrouse.com + team
A screenshot of ellie.wtf shwoing my now playing widget
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Charlie Marsh @crmarsh.com · 09/12/2024
uv has made it into GitHub's default .gitignore
gitignore/Python.gitignore, with a uv.lock entry
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Dan Levine @daniel-levine.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
You can scale them on @val.town too!! And as the newsletter says more to help with that soon!
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Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · 02/12/2024
Old habits die hard, I forgot I can include a link in the top level post here 🤦‍♂️ blog.val.town/blog/val-tow...
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Val Town Newsletter 22
Townie upgrades, Scoped API permissions, Fal partnership
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Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · 02/12/2024
Val Town Newsletter #22 Our first newsletter that Bluesky hears about before Twitter ;) 🏗️ Building Projects & Scalable infra 🤖 Townie upgrades 🔑 API Scopes 🌄 Fal Partnership 💳 Updated pricing 💾 Blob storage admins 🤩 100 of our favorite community vals
Val Town Newsletter 22
Steve Krouse Steve Krouse on Dec 2, 2024
Val Town is growing up! We’re working on features and infra that will fundamentally unlock the scope and scale of what you can build in Val Town. We have two major efforts running in parallel: projects and scalability.

Projects are containers for multiple vals, folders, and files. The enable you to create infinitely complex real-world apps, instead of being limited to a single long val. Internal to a project, vals will use relative imports (ie ./foo/bar), so they can be forked as a unit, and merged back in as a unit. Projects will also improve Townie’s ability to help write your vals in more modular files, so that it doesn’t have to regenerate all the code on every change.

Scalability will enable you to run production workloads in Val Town, with usage-based pricing, custom alerts, and caps.

We hope to have both of these efforts live in the coming months. In the meantime, we’ve shipped many other features and improvements, including a dozen Townie upgrades, scoped API permissions, a partnership with Fal, and more.

Justin Bennett has joined our team! He is well-known for the DevtoolsFM podcast, and was most recently at The Recurse Center, Membrane, and Oxide. We’ve known Justin for years, and are thrilled he’s on the team.

As per usual, the highlight of our newsletter is at the bottom: a list of the most interesting community vals we’ve seen this month, including a bunch working with the Bluesky API, a Val Town clone built on Val Town, Stripe examples, virtual money, data journalism, lightning-fast Cerebras 2k-tokens-per-second demos, and dozens more!

🤖 Townie upgrades
Townie has been massively upgraded this month. We shipped some of the most common feature request and fixed the worst bugs.
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Dan Levine @daniel-levine.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Also I notice you like whiskey, have you checked out peated.com from the sentry founder?
peated.com
Peated
Peated is a spirits database allowing anyone to record tasting notes, track their favorite whiskies, and discover the world of peat.
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Dan Levine @daniel-levine.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
I’m at @sentry.io like I’m at @val.town :) I don’t do any real work, but I cheerlead from the bleachers!!!
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Dan Levine @daniel-levine.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
I’m very biased and love Sentry, but we don’t tend to advertise our own product much :P
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Sam Rose @samwho.dev · 01/12/2024
Oh hell yes, I am definitely going to be trying this.
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Dan Levine @daniel-levine.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Awesome! I definitely think @val.town and @notion.com go together like peanut butter and jelly!
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bao 🪼 @lei.fyi · 01/12/2024
Created my first val.town project which creates a RSS feed based on a public Notion database. If you use Notion to host your blog this might be useful. #notion #valtown #notionsite www.val.town/v/bao/notion...
Screenshot of an RSS feed based on a Notion website generated using the val.town val mentioned in this post.
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Armin Ronacher @mitsuhiko.at · 01/12/2024
Yes, we did a thing. And I think it's fun :) www.debugdecember.com
debugdecember.com
Debug December
Help the Yeti get home. Play Debug December and win cool prizes.
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Sam Rose @samwho.dev · 29/11/2024
This one's for the folks at @val.town. www.twitch.tv/samwhoo/clip...
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samwhoo - val.town hat time
Watch samwhoo's clip titled
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Justin @just-be.dev · 25/11/2024
Hey friends! Big news. I'm working at @val.town now!
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Dan Levine @daniel-levine.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Is this the printer you’d recommend if I got one?
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Dan Levine @daniel-levine.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
ok!
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Pierre de Wulf @pierredewulf.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
hi bluesky, let's talk MRR and all that.
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Luca Baggi @baggiponte.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
How I am going about my days lately (cc @crmarsh.com)
A four-panel comic strip titled 'The Jenkins Comic.'

1. In the first panel, a character in a blue shirt introduces himself to another character in a yellow shirt, saying, 'Hi! My name is Jason.'
2. In the second panel, the character in the yellow shirt responds, 'Ah! Nice to meet you, Jason.'
3. In the third panel, the character in the yellow shirt is shown with a thought bubble. Inside the bubble, there are labels for 'Friends,' 'Family,' and 'Python Packaging,' with 'Python Packaging' highlighted prominently.
4. In the fourth panel, the character in the blue shirt asks the character in the yellow shirt, 'Say Jarvis, have you ever heard of uv?' The character in the yellow shirt looks puzzled.

Generate with Mistral Large 202411
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Dan Levine @daniel-levine.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
💯 I want to see a ton of Val.town apps that make use of Bluesky :) cc @stevekrouse.com
val.town
Val Town
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Dan Levine @daniel-levine.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Bought and link for anyone else interested a.co/d/fsEG4ir
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Mathematica: A Secret World of Intuition and Curiosity: Bessis, David, Frey, Kevin: 9780300270884: Amazon.com: Books
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Dominik Roszkowski @roszkowski.dev · 18/11/2024
Just rolled out my first prod release with Shorebird included. Let's hope we won't have to use it. #flutter
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Dan Levine @daniel-levine.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
For any/all video and video player things the Mux folks (who built video.js and a bunch of other great open source stuff github.com/muxinc ) Cc @mmcc.io
bsky.app
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Dan Levine @daniel-levine.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Vehement agreement. Links are one of my favorite things
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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 19/11/2024
We love links because we love the open web
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Dan Levine @daniel-levine.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I think at least d3 is better than that. Higher-abstraction than d3 I tend to often agree!
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Sentry @sentry.io · 18/11/2024
Smarter search?? New Uptime Monitoring 😲 Session Replay for iOS, Android, Flutter and React Native. What. Day 1 ✅ Of course there's a blog outlining how to get started with everything. blog.sentry.io/smarter-sear...
blog.sentry.io
Smarter search, Uptime Monitoring, and Session Replay updates to simplify your debugging
Fix your problems faster with our 3 latest updates - smarter search, Uptime Monitoring, & Session Replay for Mobile. Get started with Sentry here.
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Dan Levine @daniel-levine.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
you should use @mux.com, and then you could host the livestream right on Bluesky! cc @mmcc.io
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Dan Levine @daniel-levine.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
these folks are working on it saldor.com I'll nag them to get on bsky
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Dan Levine @daniel-levine.bsky.social · 04/11/2024
love to see it :)
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