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Jim Nielsen @jim-nielsen.com · 14/09/2026

📝 I'm officially a hoarder now. Netlify throws away my analytics data every 30 days, but I finally setup a little automation with @val.town to persist it. blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/preserv...

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Preserving Netlify Analytics Data Beyond 30 Days

Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.

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jenn schiffer 😎 @jennschiffer.com · 01/09/2026

warmed by people finding me at events to talk about how they loved glitch and expressing that nothing has fully replaced it - but at least for the “having a good time getting an app built and online (and remixable) without needing an aws account“ part, though, @val.town is still so great

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Pete Millspaugh @petemillspaugh.com · 05/08/2026

we migrated the @val.town docs to val town, which was full of AX/DX/UX tradeoffs (to borrow @jim-nielsen.com's framing) anthropomorphized potato pothole doodle by @jxnblk.bsky.social

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Docfooding: Eating our own documentation

The Val Town docs are now written and hosted on Val Town

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Tom MacWright @macwright.com · 31/07/2026

been spending a lot of time identifying & fixing security issues at @val.town: here's how it's going blog.val.town/security

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Report from the security mines

Finding, fixing, preventing exploits with automated tooling and hard-won knowledge

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Paul Chin Jr. @paulchinjr.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

@stevekrouse.com the chatgpt valtown plugin is my favorite way to vibe code right now. Check out my fluid sim experiment and retro guest book thingee. www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7Pt...

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vibe coding with val town and chatgpt

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Tom MacWright @macwright.com · 11/06/2026

for the company blog on @val.town: vals now get access to scoped blob storage so they can store binary data and avoid conflicting with each other blog.val.town/scoped-blob-...

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Introducing Scoped Blob Storage

Every val gets its own blobs

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val.town @val.town · 02/06/2026

Lately, in town: - redesigned core val UI - deploying your combobulated (claude) code - new Pro pricing (only for new users) - ...and more blog.val.town/changelog-05262026

Val Town Changelog doodle - May 26, 2026

More and more Val Town users are having Claude Code bebop, wibble, photosynthesize, and jitterbug their vals, using the Val Town MCP server. Every val’s homepage now includes a copyable command for using Val Town MCP + Claude Code.

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Pete Millspaugh @petemillspaugh.com · 20/05/2026

vibe coding without understanding what's going on feels like I'm a child whose parent took over my school project I don't feel good when I'm done, and I sure won't be able to answer any questions in show 'n' tell tomorrow

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Andy Matuschak @andymatuschak.org · 19/05/2026

Intense vertigo thinking about @nanr.bsky.social's numbers. Based on current pledges/valuations, AI philanthropic giving would saturate an additional 300+ Arc Institutes, i.e. an extra 80K employees. Or 5,000 Institutes for Progress demanding 200K employees! nanransohoff.substack.com/p/the-third-...

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Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · 30/04/2026

This is the video I wish I could've watched when I was 14 and wanted to know how to make web apps. I made Val Town for anyone who wants to learn how to code. We cover the basics of: JavaScript web servers, HTTP HTML, forms GET and POST requests SQLite Hono routing www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Mrs...

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Val Town 101

YouTube video by Val Town

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Pete Millspaugh @petemillspaugh.com · 03/04/2026

experimenting with a video walkthrough of the (new) val town changelog, out yesterday www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtqa...

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Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · 30/03/2026

i accomplished three things this weekend! 1. wrote a new job description for hiring an infra engineer 2. rewrote the system prompt for townie (our ai coding agents) 3. released a new version of std/oauth - a minimalist "login with val town" auth library

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Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · 27/03/2026

The talk of the val town! Delightful video by Mr @petemillspaugh.com youtube.com/watch?v=mKXoAVVrlXc

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Talk of the Town, March 2026

YouTube video by Val Town

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Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · 25/03/2026

it's hard to put into words how good it feels to be quoted by one of my role models

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Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · 21/03/2026

the reports of code's death are greatly exaggerated i spent 10 hours writing this blog post by hand. i would be delighted if you read it stevekrouse.com/precision

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Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · 17/03/2026

excited to finally publish val town investor updates! if you care about val town (or me), would love your thoughts on our direction :) blog.val.town/2026-feb

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Pete Millspaugh @petemillspaugh.com · 17/03/2026

the doodling culture has to be one of the biggest draws to working at @val.town (hiring a product engineer if anyone is looking! val.town/careers)

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Careers

Join Val Town, an in-person New York City startup building the most delightful way to get JavaScript running in the cloud.

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Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · 08/03/2026

What if you never had to get an API key ever again? You can spend 5 min (vibe) coding an app, but 30 min getting the API keys We need OpenRouter for all APIs. But as a protocol Meet x402, my first real use for crypto www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqr4...

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# What if you never had to get an API key?

YouTube video by Steve Krouse

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Paul Kinlan @paul.kinlan.me · 22/02/2026

I am creating a post about using voice as my primary input with LLMs and I remembered Blade Runner's Esper machine. I thought it'd be fun to replicant 👉 WebSpeechRecognition 👉 Gemini Flash Lite for Voice to UI 👉 Gemini Nano Banana to "Enhance" 👉 Built with voice Clone 👉 val.town/x/paulkinlan...

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dan @danabra.mov · 14/02/2026

demo: ejecting to @val.town

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Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · 11/02/2026

i love building random one-off software, for example, to help me compare webcams great use of vibe-coding (when you can throw away the code)

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Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · 07/02/2026

I built a built a better version of lovable! It'll help you build a billion-dollar business in just a few decades! billionaire.val.run

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dan @danabra.mov · 05/02/2026

this was fast! @val.town is cool

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Pete Millspaugh @petemillspaugh.com · 03/02/2026

started playing with mcp servers today and built a little one with just one tool to look up country by ccTLD val town for the server and @cloudflare.social's ai playground for testing is a nice feedback loop

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Alex Wein @alexwein.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

would it surprise you to learn that the first thing i tried to make when learning javascript in 2017 was a word game? alexsfirstwordgamewasbad.val.run

a screenshot. In the top left there are Reset and New Board buttons, in pink. There are 3 columns of 4 black circles, each with white 1-4 white letters on it. Two paths are colored: in blue "turbine" and in orange "spitted". These words are listed, in the color of the path, on the right.

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Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · 29/01/2026

holy crap! dan abramov knows about val town!

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Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · 26/01/2026

i came up with a new way to build software! you write the code yourself with your fingers it's claude code, in your own brain it's as local-first as it gets, and sustainable: just slop bowls & 1 gallon of water lmk if you'd like a help installing in your brain! it's called "learning to code"

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Alex McRoberts @alex.mcroberts.me · 23/01/2026

First everyone on @bsky.app gets a small database. Now every Val on @val.town gets a small database. Who’s next?!

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Tom MacWright @macwright.com · 23/01/2026

new thing at @val.town - every val gets a database! plus a database browser / ui. blog.val.town/scoped-datab... maybe the coolest part: if you fork someone's val, you get a copy of the database schema.

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Every val gets a database!

Updates and articles from the Val Town team

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Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · 22/01/2026

we rebuilt @val.town's ai agent from scratch for the 5th time, and it's pretty great! would love any feedback :) blog.val.town/townie-v5

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Townie's back in town!

Updates and articles from the Val Town team

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Pete Millspaugh @petemillspaugh.com · 20/01/2026

a favorite part of my new job is getting to* doodle for blog posts, like this octocat (drawn with my mouse in @excalidraw.com lol) *not just getting to, but encouraged to

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Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · 19/01/2026

I wrote some advice for college kids in 2026, what I learned since college, what I wish someone told me, etc stevekrouse.com/advice

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Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · 16/01/2026

pretty wild that you can send "timings" from the backend to browsers and they'll visualize them for you

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Pete Millspaugh @petemillspaugh.com · 15/01/2026

To start 2026 I officially joined @stevekrouse.com, @macwright.com, and co. at @val.town as a programmer-writer, part-time while I continue writing my book :) Val Town's founding poem is still my favorite way to describe what it is: > If GitHub Gists could run > And AWS Lambda were fun

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Jono Yeong @jonathanyeong.com · 13/01/2026

My latest obsession has been optimising webhook events from Ghost to Netlify. I needed a way to filter out large payloads sent to Netlify. Using @val.town as a webhook middleware, I can strip payloads and skip triggering builds for certain posts. jonathanyeong.com/writing/usin...

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Using Val.town as a webhook middleware

My latest obsession has been optimising webhook events from Ghost to Netlify. I needed a way to filter out large payloads sent to Netlify. Using Val.town as a webhook middleware, I can strip payloads ...

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Paul Kinlan @paul.kinlan.me · 14/12/2025

It was fun to build flickity.val.run I turn each article linked from hackernews into a short video by summarizing the post, taking a screenshot and then combining them into a script for veo3.1 Video gen could be better, but surprisingly good.

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Keith Kurson @keithlaugh.love · 08/12/2025

love seeing val.town work through this in public. one of the hardest things we dealt with at glitch was never being able to narrow down to specific use cases - we wanted to be everything to everyone and that's part of how we ended up being nothing to anyone (rip)

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Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · 08/12/2025

ah the bicycle, the computer for the body

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Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · 05/12/2025

Honeycomb really knows how to sticker!!! Thanks so much @charity.wtf ❤️

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Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · 14/11/2025

📢 Introducing The Val Town MCP Server Bring Val Town to your favorite LLM – Cursor, ChatGPT, Zed, wherever! AI coding, instant deployments, built-in SQLite For example, here we use Claude Code to make a blog in a couple prompts Learn more & get started 👉 blog.val.town/mcp

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Tom MacWright @macwright.com · 11/11/2025

i wrote everything that i've been kind of nervous to write about @val.town: here's how things have been going the last three years, and read to the end for how we're hiring for two people macwright.com/2025/11/11/v...

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Val Town 2023-2025 Retrospective

The whole story

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Alex Wein @alexwein.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

made enough progress on coney letters to push to prod loopyletters.val.run/coney like my other "find a big word" games, the words are random uniformly pulled from the wordnik list, which includes a lot of junk. i'm sorry. better on mobile than desktop.

#How to play Coney Letters:
1. Use every letter to spell a word.
2. Consecutive letters in the word must be adjacent on the circle. The middle letter is adjacent to all the others.
3. When you find a word, the next word to find appears.
4. Go fast? Go slow? Enjoy!

a screenshot of a safari on an phone. The page is titled "Coney Letters, a word game by Alex Wein". In the center is a white circle with the letter E. Surrounding the circle are 7 thick arcs with the letters O, R, T, N, C ,I starting at 1 o'clock position and going clockwise.

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Tom MacWright @macwright.com · 05/11/2025

recommitted to @opensourcepledge.com at @val.town for 2025! very pumped to support projects like zod, fastify, codemirror, unified, and esm.sh with real 💸 as well as positive vibes. blog.val.town/oss-pledge

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Year Two of the Open Source Pledge

Updates and articles from the Val Town team

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Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · 04/11/2025

Very excited about this Remix 3 Fetch Router demo by @jim-nielsen.com www.val.town/x/jimniels/f... Remix 3 is still super early (and changing fast) but it's exciting how powerful this full-stack routing thing will be - seems like a perfect fit for val town h/t @tylur.dev for finding this!

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Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · 28/10/2025

i'm hiring a 'growth engineer' to work side-by-side with me at val.town in brooklyn we're a small team on a mission to spread the joy of programming we're looking for someone self-directed, loves talking to users, write english & typescript, and own projects end-to-end if this is you, reach out!!

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Forrest O. @forresto.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Idea to sync a Discord channel and @tldraw.com board. Mozilla Hubs had something like that for VR spaces circa 2020. I could see using Discord and TLDraw together like a... bulletin board. Talking to @stevekrouse.com about val.town ideas yesterday.

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Wil(helm) @wilb.me · 16/09/2025

I spent the afternoon vibe coding a game and then atprotating it! Live at qbat.val.run

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