Your agent should answer to you, not your vendor

-Pete Millspaugh

Valentine's Day, ATProto, & other vals we love

-Pete Millspaugh

Why Val Town is selling inbound lead qualification to B2B startups

-Steve Krouse

Bring Val Town to your favorite LLM

-Steve Krouse

Continuing to fund open source software

-Tom MacWright

I/O with a val in the middle

-Pete Millspaugh

Write your scripts on the internet, from your terminal, or in any editor

-Wolf Mermelstein

Running the Deno LSP to make our TypeScript language tools dramatically better

-Wolf Mermelstein

Bring Val Town to work

-Steve Krouse

Enriching users to find ideal customers

-Charmaine Lee

Code that nobody understands is tech debt

-Steve Krouse

Townie is now pay-per-use

-Steve Krouse

Mutli-file vals, local development, new Townie, new Search, and much more

-Steve Krouse

Saying goodbye to a platform we admired

-Tom MacWright

Vals are being upgraded to support multiple files, folders, and more

-Steve Krouse

Val runs failed due to a database migration that was not backward compatible

-Sophie Houser

Figuring out how to provide an API that's usable by everyone and fast for us to iterate on

-Tom MacWright

Val Town Projects, Highlight to edit, Logs redesign, Public endpoints with private code, and much more

-Steve Krouse

Dramatically increasing the scope of what you can build in Val Town, Projects are groups of vals, files, and folders, versioned collectively

-Steve Krouse

Projects beta, Deno 2, Use cases, and more

-Steve Krouse

Some vals experienced lockfile and React errors due to breaking changes in esm.sh

-Steve Krouse

From GitHub Copilot to ChatGPT to Claude Artifacts, how Val Town borrowed the best of all the code generation tools

-Steve Krouse

A single degraded host impacted certain Vals for some time.

-Max McDonnell

Building a simple aggregate view of our codebase

-Tom MacWright

Townie upgrades, Scoped API permissions, Fal partnership

-Steve Krouse

Our experiences running LLMs in production

-Tom MacWright

Improving security with granular control over permissions

-Max McDonnell

Can we implement Val Town on Val Town?

-Max McDonnell

Bringing lightning fast AI image generation to Val Town

-Steve Krouse

Townie upgrades & faster HTTP vals

-Steve Krouse

Meet Townie, our AI assistant that helps you ship apps fast

-Steve Krouse

Townie AI, Faster vals, and Lockfiles

-Steve Krouse

We donated $9,600 to open-source!

-Tom MacWright

Adding lockfiles to Val Town for stability, security, and performance.

-Max McDonnell

Like Claude Artifacts, but with a backend and database

-JP Posma

Missing permissions-checking in our internal save endpoint

-Tom MacWright

Taking advantage of our typed REST API to build a platform around Val Town.

-Tom MacWright

Full-screen Editor, 5x faster HTTP vals, new Dashboard, improved Search, Townie redesign, Trending redesign, Profile filters, and more!

-Steve Krouse

At Val Town we spawn a lot of processes. We're working on making it faster

-Max McDonnell

We built a new runtime for HTTP vals that is up to 5x faster at scale

-Max McDonnell

Why we’re using TypeBox instead of Zod for our server validation layer

-Tom MacWright

How switching to Fastify let us embrace runtime and compile-time types

-Tom MacWright

HTTP Streaming, Semantic Search, Townie AI Chat, and a TypeScript SDK

-Steve Krouse

How to build semantic search with embeddings for Val Town within Val Town itself

-JP Posma

Val Town supports HTTP streaming for streaming LLMs, large requests and responses, and server-sent events

-Max McDonnell

Improved performance, redesigned val page, live coding, and much more!

-Steve Krouse

Disclosure, mitigation, and next steps

-Max McDonnell

A more understandable entry-point to Val Town

-Tom MacWright

Our seed round, growing team, Codeium completions, @std/openai, and more

-Steve Krouse

Searching code at scale without employing a search team is hard

-Tom MacWright

We raised $5.5m to make programming fun, accessible, and collaborative.

-Steve Krouse

Custom domains, Logs 3.0, Faster HTTP responses, Status page & much more!

-Steve Krouse

From vm to vm2 to workers to processes, the long journey to how we run vals today

-Tom MacWright

Not every function should be an API

-André Terron

Pull Requests, Val Editor Redesign, AI Suggestions, OSS Docs, New Astro Blog, Templates

-Steve Krouse

Designing the core UI of editing

-Tom MacWright

SQLite, Blob Storage, updates to how Vals are named, and more

-Steve Krouse

Disclosing and fixing a recent security issue

-Steve Krouse

An API that takes a Request and returns a Response - what was that, again?

-Steve Krouse

Our move to embrace web standards

-Steve Krouse

Product Hunt, v3 in development, and more

-Steve Krouse

How to customize OpenAI to your liking

-Steve Krouse

Hiring, podcasts, and more!

-Steve Krouse

A year of Val Town!

-Steve Krouse

Our REST API lets you do a lot - and soon it will enable more

-André Terron

A novel authorization scheme for Val Town

-Steve Krouse

Increasing the security of Val Town by isolating domains.

-Steve Krouse

Refactoring the core component of Val Town for better performance.

-Steve Krouse

Announcing Val Town Pro

-Steve Krouse

Our journey from Supabase to Postgres and Render

-Tom MacWright

Moving off of Supabase and enhancing our security with restricted library mode

-Steve Krouse

Evolving Val Town’s security model

-Steve Krouse

Lots of little updates!

-Steve Krouse

Shipping our Deno runtime

-Steve Krouse

Rebuilding on Deno, HTML emails, and more

-Steve Krouse

Expanding our founding team

-Steve Krouse

Your monthly update of cool vals!

-Steve Krouse

Replacing our sandbox in response to a security disclosure

-Steve Krouse

Programmatic notifications, Hacker News API, and more.

-Steve Krouse

A reflection on the goal of making programming for everyone.

-Steve Krouse

Smarter typeahead, tutorials, much more.

-Steve Krouse