Wow! Looking good!

love it!

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

i'm not able to get the val version to work fyi - lmk if you'd like a hand with it

1. val-town.notion.site/infra-eng
2. www.val.town/townie/syste...
3. www.val.town/x/std/oauth

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

i nominate @macwright.com

yeah, val town is great at this! always happy to onboard anyone who wants personally :)

Correct

The talk of the val town! Delightful video by Mr @petemillspaugh.com

youtube.com/watch?v=mKXoAVVrlXc

❤️ loved your dynamite analogy! it was a dynamite analogy!

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

we do have a helper function to transpile single tsx files to js for the browser and that's all we need for client side react

Yeah we should figure that out!

how would preact help?

Thanks for the demo mastro val!

Yes simplicity and fast feedback loops. The Remix 3 folks explain it well (attached). This is for small and medium websites (mostly internal tools or small apps) so we don't need fancy bundlers (though I am hopeful this approach will scale eventually!)

Feedback appreciated!

Or: would be fun to see you make some Mastro demos on Val Town! You could create an @Mastro account on Val Town and publish some "starters" or "demos" there for folks to remix

I'm hopeful that Mastro or Remix 3 could be what I want, but I do love react, so I made something that's fullstack react-router that I am pretty proud of, but it's very experimental

www.val.town/x/stevekrous...

I desperately want a full-stack framework that works without a bundler for val town. The two patterns I recommend now:

- hono + ssr jsx (100% ssr)
- react spa + hono for api routes (100% client)

I want something that's the best of both worlds...

This is very cool

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)

uh oh

Investor Update – Feb 2026 Updates and articles from the Val Town team

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

# What if you never had to get an API key? YouTube video by Steve Krouse

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...

so cool it's just a couple thousand lines of code and 60 edits

so cool! we are living in the future!!!

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...