How to customize OpenAI to your liking

Like Claude Artifacts, but with a backend and database

Not every function should be an API

Designing the core UI of editing

A reflection on the goal of making programming for everyone.

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

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

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

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.

Our move to embrace web standards

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

Our journey from Supabase to Postgres and Render

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

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

We donated $9,600 to open-source!

Disclosure, mitigation, and next steps

Disclosing and fixing a recent security issue

A novel authorization scheme for Val Town

A more understandable entry-point to Val Town

Evolving Val Town’s security model

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?

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

Smarter typeahead, tutorials, much more.

Programmatic notifications, Hacker News API, and more.

A year of Val Town!

Hiring, podcasts, and more!

Product Hunt, v3 in development, and more

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

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 AI, Faster vals, and Lockfiles

Expanding our founding team

Rebuilding on Deno, HTML emails, and more

Shipping our Deno runtime

Lots of little updates!

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

Announcing Val Town Pro

Refactoring the core component of Val Town for better performance.

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