Improving security with granular control over permissions

Our experiences running LLMs in production

Like Claude Artifacts, but with a backend and database

A reflection on the goal of making programming for everyone.

Bringing lightning fast AI image generation to Val Town

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

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

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

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

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

Increasing the security of Val Town by isolating domains.

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

Our journey from Supabase to Postgres and Render

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

We donated $9,600 to open-source!

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

A single degraded host impacted certain Vals for some time.

Disclosing and fixing a recent security issue

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

A novel authorization scheme for Val Town

A more understandable entry-point to Val Town

How to customize OpenAI to your liking

Designing the core UI of editing

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

Disclosure, mitigation, and next steps

Searching code at scale without employing a search team is hard

Replacing our sandbox in response to a security disclosure

Missing permissions-checking in our internal save endpoint

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

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

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

Evolving Val Town’s security model

Not every function should be an API

Building a simple aggregate view of our codebase

Smarter typeahead, tutorials, much more.

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

Programmatic notifications, Hacker News API, and more.

A year of Val Town!

Hiring, podcasts, and more!

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

Product Hunt, v3 in development, and more

Our move to embrace web standards

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Your monthly update of cool vals!

Townie upgrades & faster HTTP vals

Townie AI, Faster vals, and Lockfiles

Townie upgrades, Scoped API permissions, Fal partnership

Projects beta, Deno 2, Use cases, and more

Expanding our founding team

Rebuilding on Deno, HTML emails, and more

Shipping our Deno runtime

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

Lots of little updates!

Announcing Val Town Pro

Refactoring the core component of Val Town for better performance.

Can we implement Val Town on Val Town?

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