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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@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...
vibe coding with val town and chatgpt
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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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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
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
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-...
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...
Val Town 101
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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 · 4mo agoChangelog — April 2, 2026 blog.val.town/changelog-04022026
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
The talk of the val town! Delightful video by Mr @petemillspaugh.com youtube.com/watch?v=mKXoAVVrlXc
Talk of the Town, March 2026
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@val.town · 4mo agoTalk 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
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
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
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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Tom MacWright@macwright.com · 5mo agoit was a busy morning for my micron pens
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...
# What if you never had to get an API key?
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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...
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)
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
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
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
holy crap! dan abramov knows about val town!
dan@danabra.mov · 6mo agoi think with things like @val.town and @exe.dev, maybe the balance shifts a bit more where having some stuff you sometimes hit on the server is super easy to deploy and doesn't make much fuss. and this lets you be so much more expressive than inside of a template
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"
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 · 6mo 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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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
I wrote some advice for college kids in 2026, what I learned since college, what I wish someone told me, etc stevekrouse.com/advice
