Presenting... Talk of the Town, October 2026 edition *Playing with Jev & home-cooked transit dev* feat. @jim-nielsen.com, @nicobaier.com, @mootari.social, @paulchinjr.bsky.social, @marianoguerra.org, @cheersderek.com, @puf.io, @stevekrouse.com, @petemillspaugh.com, and dozens more
Talk of the Town - October 2026
Playing with Jev & home-cooked transit dev
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I wrote about trying (and failing) to let ai write for me title is a riff on @henrikkarlsson.bsky.social's henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/search-query
A docs page is a very long and complex search query to find wandering AI agents and make them route interested people to your company
On AEO
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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
launched 'access', a new @val.town feature that lets you restrict access to http endpoints and we handle all the auth particulars. glorious illustration by @jxnblk.bsky.social blog.val.town/access
Val Town Access: one-click team-only authentication for your internal tools
An easier, more precise way to use Val Town for your back office
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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
Docfooding: Eating our own documentation
The Val Town docs are now written and hosted on Val Town
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been spending a lot of time identifying & fixing security issues at @val.town: here's how it's going blog.val.town/security
Report from the security mines
Finding, fixing, preventing exploits with automated tooling and hard-won knowledge
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a couple weeks ago, we got a “personalised” video pitch from a startup, but the guy in the video was not a person at all
Ethical cold outreach
Stop misrepresenting AI slop as your own work
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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-...
Introducing Scoped Blob Storage
Every val gets its own blobs
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Coming to a terminal near you
The Val Town plugin for coding agents
100ms deploys from Claude Code, Codex & Cursor
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after wiring up blog.val.town yesterday, made a remixable blog template on @val.town that integrates with @standard.site!
Hello, atmosphere
This blog is atmospheric
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integrated the @val.town blog with @standard.site :) our blog doesn't have a build step, so I vibe coded (in "slow mode" 😉) our own atproto publishing pipeline: val.town/x/valdottown/blog/branch/main/code/atproto/README.md
Slow Mode
Val Town is the Salt Fat Acid Heat of vibe coding platforms
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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
Tiny service for @firehose.club relay operators, running on @val.town
Crawl me maybe
Introducing vsky.network, a fan-out service for crawl requests across community atproto relays.
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Talk of the Town, May '26 blog.val.town/talk-of-the-town-may-26 Community vals feat. @tijs.org @paul.kinlan.me @k7d.dev @sri.xyz @marianoguerra.org @alex.mcroberts.me @jennschiffer.com @kamalnrf.bsky.social @nicobaier.com @raymondcamden.com @joshbeckman.org and more!
just published an essay on the @val.town blog: *Code is inert. Val Town makes it ert* blog.val.town/code-is-inert inspired by this sentence in @ftrain.bsky.social's "What is Code" essay 11 years ago > Code is inert. How do you make it ert?
I built an app that helps me keep on top of Hacker News. hn-push.val.run hosted on the awesome @val.town Let's you get real time updates to posts, comments and user's changes and you can get them delivered by Web Push Notification too. Check it out and I'd love some feedback.
🔶 HN Watcher
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experimenting with a video walkthrough of the (new) val town changelog, out yesterday www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtqa...
@val.town · 7mo agoChangelog — April 2, 2026 blog.val.town/changelog-04022026
Talk of the Town, March 2026 blog.val.town/talk-of-the-town-mar-2026 (w/ video walkthrough: youtube.com/watch?v=mKXoAVVrlXc) Feat. an "NYC doorman" val, literally calling vals (as in "call a function" but also "call your mother"), a millennial-core quiz about recycled tech hype, and lots more
✈️ LGA → YYZ → YVR → #atmosphereconf (assuming i make all these flights and tsa is operating)
Our newsletter is back with the first edition since last summer: blog.val.town/newsletter-26 If it's been a while since you've visited val town, you can read this to catch up on what we're up to...and to rsvp to our party tomorrow :)
First everyone on @bsky.app gets a small database. Now every Val on @val.town gets a small database. Who’s next?!
Tom MacWright@macwright.com · 9mo agonew 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.
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.
Every val gets a database!
Updates and articles from the Val Town team
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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
Townie's back in town!
Updates and articles from the Val Town team
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