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
blog.val.town
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
blog.val.town
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
blog.val.town
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
blog.val.town
Coming to a terminal near you
The Val Town plugin for coding agents
100ms deploys from Claude Code, Codex & Cursor
blog.val.town
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
atprotoblog.val.run
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.
sri.leaflet.pub
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 · 4mo 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 · 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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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...
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 ...
jonathanyeong.com
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
📢 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
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...
Val Town 2023-2025 Retrospective
The whole story
macwright.com
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
Year Two of the Open Source Pledge
Updates and articles from the Val Town team
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