Try Val.town !!

It must have taken a machine to put Andreessen this far up his own ass.

i’m sorry i don’t usually repost this kind of stuff but this is just so funny. there’s an intangibility to it..

Would love any feedback/friction log on @val.town if you’re up for it

Install Tailscale on an Apple TV · Tailscale Docs Learn how to install Tailscale on an Apple TV.

Turn your Apple TV into a Tailscale exit node, or just access it remotely:

tailscale.com/kb/1280/appl...

Cc @pfrazee.com you all monitoring your video? Been having a lot of issues with it recently :(

A list titled "YOUR CRONS" showing five tasks named "johnphamous/nintendo_museum_check" numbered 8-12, with progress bars and completion times ranging from 29 seconds to 14 minutes.

used @ValDotTown to snipe the hard to get nintendo museum tickets

1. get the availability data—nintendo tried to prevent this, bypass is just spoofying a header
2. availability is int-encoded, pattern matched to find the open pattern
3. sends telegram message when open found

Finally had a moment to play around with @val.town. It's super fun! Hacking on a small workout planner and it's a fun way to get up and running with a few APIs very quickly.

Turning data into calendar feeds

✍️ Wrote about how you can use @val.town to transform event data from local meetup sites, @notion.com, or wherever into dynamic feeds for your calendar apps.

mattrossman.com/2025/01/06/t...

Screenshot of the cipher game.

Built a cipher game bao-cipher.web.val.run Just try to decode a letter substitution cipher as quick as you can. You can share the game link and compete against a friend.

Initially it’s for my kid to practice in a competition, but it’s kinda fun and now I just keep playing it.

The screenshot showcases two distinct sections: 1. **Left Section: Diagram Editor** A flowchart or workflow editor is open, showing a simple sequence: - A **start node** (circle) triggers the process. - A **data block** labeled "Custom" connects to an HTTP endpoint with the method set to "POST." - A **text block** displays the number "4," indicating output or result. The editor includes a toolbar on the left for adding elements like text, images, buttons, and toggles. 2. **Right Section: Code and Documentation in Val Town** The interface on the right is part of Val Town, showing: - A code editor with JavaScript code for an HTTP endpoint. The code: - Imports a blob storage module. - Defines an async function that increments and persists a count. - Returns the updated count as plain text. - Documentation describing the endpoint's purpose: a simple counter stored in blob storage, accessible via an HTTP POST request. The two sections illustrate the integration of a custom API (from Val Town) into a workflow visualized in the diagram editor.

@tldraw.com computer and @val.town are besties

Opinion | No, You Don’t Get an A for Effort High marks reward excellence, not grit.

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/o...

I've never released as many side projects as I did in late Nov early Dec. It's mainly thanks to @val.town, you should give it a try!

Here are some highlights:

- brainradio.fm
- opnsrc.codes
- whatshouldiwear.fyi
- domainsanta.christmas
- karkowg-lazycook.web.val.run

Introducing CerebrasCoder!

An open-source app that generates websites with Llama3.3-70b from @cerebrassystems.bsky.social as fast as you can type. 100% free and open-source.

(Inference in video is at 1x speed. Me typing sped up 3x.)

cerebrascoder.com

Built on @val.town which has been helping me to overcome my "backend infrastructure PTSD" 🙃

maybe better to cc @darcyclarke.me here... my bad for spam tom and darcy

New hires @sentry.io get their own custom branded Sentry Keyboard on their first day, which becomes a trophy case of their accomplishments throughout their tenure at the company. Here's a quick write up/retro: sentry.design/blog/the-sen...

If you have an API, your users can extend your app with Val Town. I love to see it 😍

A screenshot of ellie.wtf shwoing my now playing widget

I just had a play with @val.town and made this little "now playing" widget for my notes site!

Took like 10 mins. Nice one @stevekrouse.com + team

gitignore/Python.gitignore, with a uv.lock entry

uv has made it into GitHub's default .gitignore

You can scale them on @val.town too!! And as the newsletter says more to help with that soon!

Val Town Newsletter 22 Townie upgrades, Scoped API permissions, Fal partnership

Old habits die hard, I forgot I can include a link in the top level post here 🤦‍♂️ blog.val.town/blog/val-tow...

Val Town Newsletter 22 Steve Krouse Steve Krouse on Dec 2, 2024 Val Town is growing up! We’re working on features and infra that will fundamentally unlock the scope and scale of what you can build in Val Town. We have two major efforts running in parallel: projects and scalability. Projects are containers for multiple vals, folders, and files. The enable you to create infinitely complex real-world apps, instead of being limited to a single long val. Internal to a project, vals will use relative imports (ie ./foo/bar), so they can be forked as a unit, and merged back in as a unit. Projects will also improve Townie’s ability to help write your vals in more modular files, so that it doesn’t have to regenerate all the code on every change. Scalability will enable you to run production workloads in Val Town, with usage-based pricing, custom alerts, and caps. We hope to have both of these efforts live in the coming months. In the meantime, we’ve shipped many other features and improvements, including a dozen Townie upgrades, scoped API permissions, a partnership with Fal, and more. Justin Bennett has joined our team! He is well-known for the DevtoolsFM podcast, and was most recently at The Recurse Center, Membrane, and Oxide. We’ve known Justin for years, and are thrilled he’s on the team. As per usual, the highlight of our newsletter is at the bottom: a list of the most interesting community vals we’ve seen this month, including a bunch working with the Bluesky API, a Val Town clone built on Val Town, Stripe examples, virtual money, data journalism, lightning-fast Cerebras 2k-tokens-per-second demos, and dozens more! 🤖 Townie upgrades Townie has been massively upgraded this month. We shipped some of the most common feature request and fixed the worst bugs.

Val Town Newsletter #22

Our first newsletter that Bluesky hears about before Twitter ;)

🏗️ Building Projects & Scalable infra
🤖 Townie upgrades
🔑 API Scopes
🌄 Fal Partnership
💳 Updated pricing
💾 Blob storage admins
🤩 100 of our favorite community vals

Also I notice you like whiskey, have you checked out peated.com from the sentry founder?

I’m at @sentry.io like I’m at @val.town :) I don’t do any real work, but I cheerlead from the bleachers!!!

I’m very biased and love Sentry, but we don’t tend to advertise our own product much :P

Oh hell yes, I am definitely going to be trying this.

Awesome! I definitely think @val.town and @notion.com go together like peanut butter and jelly!

Screenshot of an RSS feed based on a Notion website generated using the val.town val mentioned in this post.

Created my first val.town project which creates a RSS feed based on a public Notion database. If you use Notion to host your blog this might be useful.
#notion #valtown #notionsite
www.val.town/v/bao/notion...

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Yes, we did a thing. And I think it's fun :) www.debugdecember.com