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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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Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · 23/07/2026

Woah, first I'm hearing of this. Jazzed

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Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · 11/06/2026

we make money by selling hosting & dev productivity, like lovable or render i write public investor updates, so you can follow along how it's going: blog.val.town/2026-may

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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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Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · 22/05/2026

woah, so fun! curious how this app ends working out! lmk if there's anything i can do to help

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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 · 20/05/2026

I fear AI models might be somewhat veblen goods, and that we all somewhat conflate price with quality

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Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · 05/05/2026

let us know how we can help!

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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

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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 · 31/03/2026

i'm not able to get the val version to work fyi - lmk if you'd like a hand with it

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

1. val-town.notion.site/infra-eng 2. www.val.town/townie/syste... 3. www.val.town/x/std/oauth

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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 · 29/03/2026

yeah, val town is great at this! always happy to onboard anyone who wants personally :)

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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 · 26/03/2026

❤️ loved your dynamite analogy! it was a dynamite analogy!

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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 · 20/03/2026

we do have a helper function to transpile single tsx files to js for the browser and that's all we need for client side react

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Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · 20/03/2026

Yeah we should figure that out!

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Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · 19/03/2026

Thanks for the demo mastro val!

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Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · 19/03/2026

Yes simplicity and fast feedback loops. The Remix 3 folks explain it well (attached). This is for small and medium websites (mostly internal tools or small apps) so we don't need fancy bundlers (though I am hopeful this approach will scale eventually!)

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Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · 19/03/2026

Feedback appreciated! Or: would be fun to see you make some Mastro demos on Val Town! You could create an @Mastro account on Val Town and publish some "starters" or "demos" there for folks to remix

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Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · 19/03/2026

I'm hopeful that Mastro or Remix 3 could be what I want, but I do love react, so I made something that's fullstack react-router that I am pretty proud of, but it's very experimental www.val.town/x/stevekrous...

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Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · 19/03/2026

I desperately want a full-stack framework that works without a bundler for val town. The two patterns I recommend now: - hono + ssr jsx (100% ssr) - react spa + hono for api routes (100% client) I want something that's the best of both worlds...

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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?

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Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · 22/02/2026

so cool it's just a couple thousand lines of code and 60 edits

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Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · 22/02/2026

so cool! we are living in the future!!!

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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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Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · 21/02/2026

Appreciate it! If you know what you want changed, we'd love a docs pr!

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Steve Krouse @stevekrouse.com · 21/02/2026

😊 See you tomorrow morning!

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