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...

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

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

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

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)

@val.town public investor update is out blog.val.town/2026-feb

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...

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...

demo: ejecting to @val.town

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

this was fast! @val.town is cool

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!

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?!

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.

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

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

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

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

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...

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.

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)

what we've been up to recently at val town: blog.val.town/pickling

ah the bicycle, the computer for the body

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

📢 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...

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.

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

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!

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!!

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.

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

Pretty sure this is why @val.town is going to win out. Version control, modularity, team projects.

i wrote a whole thing about wrangling npm dependencies because it's an unglamorous part of the job that's nevertheless really important. also because i wanted to make some watercolor illustrations. blog.val.town/gardening-de...

this is tom on the company account retweeting tom on the personal account, devrel maxing, read the post, it's good

(my new job at @val.town is editing the blog) we launched a cli, called vt! you can run it in watch mode and it'll auto-deploy every time you change a file in your project, and you can use claude code, codex, or whatever the hottest new ai tool of the day is blog.val.town/vt-cli

building a code editor in the browser is hard huge kudos to @404wolf.bsky.social for making ours so good this work is open-source, so you too can have amazing autocomplete, type information, go-to-definition, in your codemirror editor

this summer @val.town had an intern, and he was truly kickass: read about how @404wolf.bsky.social put the @deno.land LSP server in a cloudflare container, made it speak websockets, wired it up to codemirror, and made the whole thing scale: blog.val.town/vtlsp

We counted 6,575 💃 ("vals") before Bluesky asked me to stop Every 15 minutes for the last couple months, we've been posting an increasingly insane number of vals. It's a testament to @jennschiffer.com's creativity and the permissiveness of the Bluesky API RIP @counting-vals.bsky.social