charmaine
@charmaine.bsky.social
@val.town. previously building: @snapchat, @unity labs, @microsoft. let's make creativity accessible!
https://www.charmaineklee.com/
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Omg that would be cool as heck, love Val.town
Thinking about rebuilding @val.town / @smallweb.run on top of atproto, with an architecture inspired by @tangled.org.
Every user can bring it's own runner, but the there is a federated appview for social stuffs (likes, follow, ect...).
Every user can bring it's own runner, but the there is a federated appview for social stuffs (likes, follow, ect...).
September 27, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Omg that would be cool as heck, love Val.town
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Very invested in this idea. Bullish on products like @val.town that could handle the security aspect of that (maybe you want to have a button that hits an internal API, or refreshes data).
September 16, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Very invested in this idea. Bullish on products like @val.town that could handle the security aspect of that (maybe you want to have a button that hits an internal API, or refreshes data).
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Replit, a vibe coding startup, pushed a new product called "agent 3" that appears to be completely broken other than in its ability to burn tons of money
September 16, 2025 at 1:56 AM
hahahhahahahahahahahhaha
September 10, 2025 at 8:27 PM
hahahhahahahahahahahhaha
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did we forget the link to the post or were you playing three-dimensional chess increasing engagement by prompting replies to your email, learn this new marketing hack
September 9, 2025 at 11:34 PM
did we forget the link to the post or were you playing three-dimensional chess increasing engagement by prompting replies to your email, learn this new marketing hack
did i forget the button link in our email? yes
did we get the best responses? also yes 🥰
did we get the best responses? also yes 🥰
September 9, 2025 at 7:23 PM
did i forget the button link in our email? yes
did we get the best responses? also yes 🥰
did we get the best responses? also yes 🥰
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🔴 LIVE TODAY: Realtime API deep dive w/ Justin Uberti (Head of Realtime AI at OpenAI, WebRTC creator)
⏰ 4pm ET / 1pm PT
📍 Livestream link to come!
We'll walk through the new API and share code samples so you can start building with it right away.
⏰ 4pm ET / 1pm PT
📍 Livestream link to come!
We'll walk through the new API and share code samples so you can start building with it right away.
September 5, 2025 at 6:28 PM
🔴 LIVE TODAY: Realtime API deep dive w/ Justin Uberti (Head of Realtime AI at OpenAI, WebRTC creator)
⏰ 4pm ET / 1pm PT
📍 Livestream link to come!
We'll walk through the new API and share code samples so you can start building with it right away.
⏰ 4pm ET / 1pm PT
📍 Livestream link to come!
We'll walk through the new API and share code samples so you can start building with it right away.
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Release notes:
- Mic access now works in the HTTP preview iframe (We did this for @juberti's OpenAI Realtime Demo)
- Flag users or vals for moderation
- 🤫 Easter egg: every val.run val also lives at val.howright now, on our next gen infra!
- Mic access now works in the HTTP preview iframe (We did this for @juberti's OpenAI Realtime Demo)
- Flag users or vals for moderation
- 🤫 Easter egg: every val.run val also lives at val.howright now, on our next gen infra!
September 2, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Release notes:
- Mic access now works in the HTTP preview iframe (We did this for @juberti's OpenAI Realtime Demo)
- Flag users or vals for moderation
- 🤫 Easter egg: every val.run val also lives at val.howright now, on our next gen infra!
- Mic access now works in the HTTP preview iframe (We did this for @juberti's OpenAI Realtime Demo)
- Flag users or vals for moderation
- 🤫 Easter egg: every val.run val also lives at val.howright now, on our next gen infra!
🎉 Announcing Val Town for Teams
Companies like PostHog, Kilo Code, Stainless, Scalar are using Val Town to automate technical GTM / growth workflows.
Reach out or share this if you, or someone you know is interested 💖
HAPPY BRING YOUR VAL TOWN TO WORK DAY!! (This was such a long time coming)
Companies like PostHog, Kilo Code, Stainless, Scalar are using Val Town to automate technical GTM / growth workflows.
Reach out or share this if you, or someone you know is interested 💖
HAPPY BRING YOUR VAL TOWN TO WORK DAY!! (This was such a long time coming)
August 13, 2025 at 5:44 PM
🎉 Announcing Val Town for Teams
Companies like PostHog, Kilo Code, Stainless, Scalar are using Val Town to automate technical GTM / growth workflows.
Reach out or share this if you, or someone you know is interested 💖
HAPPY BRING YOUR VAL TOWN TO WORK DAY!! (This was such a long time coming)
Companies like PostHog, Kilo Code, Stainless, Scalar are using Val Town to automate technical GTM / growth workflows.
Reach out or share this if you, or someone you know is interested 💖
HAPPY BRING YOUR VAL TOWN TO WORK DAY!! (This was such a long time coming)
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A helpful graph made by @stevekrouse.com on the inverse relationship between vibes and understanding in AI assisted code.
Put a few thoughts down here: maggieappleton.com/2025-08-vibe...
Original article: blog.val.town/vibe-code
Put a few thoughts down here: maggieappleton.com/2025-08-vibe...
Original article: blog.val.town/vibe-code
August 2, 2025 at 12:23 PM
A helpful graph made by @stevekrouse.com on the inverse relationship between vibes and understanding in AI assisted code.
Put a few thoughts down here: maggieappleton.com/2025-08-vibe...
Original article: blog.val.town/vibe-code
Put a few thoughts down here: maggieappleton.com/2025-08-vibe...
Original article: blog.val.town/vibe-code
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Unsure the size of your demos that you need; but if you like serverless @val.town and Townie is an interesting take on this.
Their tagline is/was “what if gists could run like lambdas?”
Their tagline is/was “what if gists could run like lambdas?”
Ship code-first automation, internal tools, and demos in minutes.
Val.town
August 2, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Unsure the size of your demos that you need; but if you like serverless @val.town and Townie is an interesting take on this.
Their tagline is/was “what if gists could run like lambdas?”
Their tagline is/was “what if gists could run like lambdas?”
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Vibe code is legacy code
Updates and articles from the Val Town team
blog.val.town
July 30, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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📝 New blog post: Holiday musing: fixing stuff on prod
I love Val.town for building little experiments and getting them hosted quicky. The fact that you can instantly have a URL to run code is incredible. I use...
Read more: https://posthero.us/post/holiday-musing-fixing-stuff-on-prod
I love Val.town for building little experiments and getting them hosted quicky. The fact that you can instantly have a URL to run code is incredible. I use...
Read more: https://posthero.us/post/holiday-musing-fixing-stuff-on-prod
Holiday musing: fixing stuff on prod
I love Val.town for building little experiments and getting them hosted quicky. The fact that you can instantly have a URL to run code is incredible. I use townie (their agent - https://townie.val.run ) a lot to knock out ideas quickly. Give it a prompt and some $ and you have an app on that url in...
posthero.us
July 26, 2025 at 7:59 PM
📝 New blog post: Holiday musing: fixing stuff on prod
I love Val.town for building little experiments and getting them hosted quicky. The fact that you can instantly have a URL to run code is incredible. I use...
Read more: https://posthero.us/post/holiday-musing-fixing-stuff-on-prod
I love Val.town for building little experiments and getting them hosted quicky. The fact that you can instantly have a URL to run code is incredible. I use...
Read more: https://posthero.us/post/holiday-musing-fixing-stuff-on-prod
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man when they got sold i felt so burnt as i really got into the templating at the time. this is great to see and saved me talking to an ai for ages with an astro blog setup so that's useful, thank you. i'll be certainly using through val town. yay.
July 25, 2025 at 10:31 PM
man when they got sold i felt so burnt as i really got into the templating at the time. this is great to see and saved me talking to an ai for ages with an astro blog setup so that's useful, thank you. i'll be certainly using through val town. yay.
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I built an email-to-blog blogging system, much like Posterous from back in the day. It supports publishing to RSS, ActivityPub, BlueSky and pings via WebSub.
posthero.us
If you want your own you can fork it here: www.val.town/x/paulkinlan...
posthero.us
If you want your own you can fork it here: www.val.town/x/paulkinlan...
Email Blog
A blog powered by email publishing
posthero.us
July 14, 2025 at 1:28 PM
I built an email-to-blog blogging system, much like Posterous from back in the day. It supports publishing to RSS, ActivityPub, BlueSky and pings via WebSub.
posthero.us
If you want your own you can fork it here: www.val.town/x/paulkinlan...
posthero.us
If you want your own you can fork it here: www.val.town/x/paulkinlan...
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Seems to work decently! If you want to play with this yourself just remix my @val.town val and add the env variables for your own val & account www.val.town/x/tijs/atpro... Should run fine on free. But if you want more syncs then every 15 mins just upgrade and change the sync interval...
July 19, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Seems to work decently! If you want to play with this yourself just remix my @val.town val and add the env variables for your own val & account www.val.town/x/tijs/atpro... Should run fine on free. But if you want more syncs then every 15 mins just upgrade and change the sync interval...
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here's a "random line from Ghostbusters" page
cheersderek--9108146d0d48480a9e4ed4e93e5cf857.web.val.run
testing out SASS and other front-end things on @val.town
(thanks for the help @stevekrouse.com)
cheersderek--9108146d0d48480a9e4ed4e93e5cf857.web.val.run
testing out SASS and other front-end things on @val.town
(thanks for the help @stevekrouse.com)
July 9, 2025 at 5:07 PM
here's a "random line from Ghostbusters" page
cheersderek--9108146d0d48480a9e4ed4e93e5cf857.web.val.run
testing out SASS and other front-end things on @val.town
(thanks for the help @stevekrouse.com)
cheersderek--9108146d0d48480a9e4ed4e93e5cf857.web.val.run
testing out SASS and other front-end things on @val.town
(thanks for the help @stevekrouse.com)
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great card for the first daily reading from the new bot on Val Town!
Reading for 9 July
The Empress
♀️🌾🍇🌟❤️
abundance, creativity, nourishment, beauty
The Empress
♀️🌾🍇🌟❤️
abundance, creativity, nourishment, beauty
July 9, 2025 at 1:51 PM
great card for the first daily reading from the new bot on Val Town!
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phew! just got my last bot ported to Val Town from Glitch right as it shuts down forever
this last one had to be completely re-architected but I got the core functionality working. time to not think about this for at least a week :P
gnight from Juicy Bear 🐻
this last one had to be completely re-architected but I got the core functionality working. time to not think about this for at least a week :P
gnight from Juicy Bear 🐻
July 9, 2025 at 4:34 AM
phew! just got my last bot ported to Val Town from Glitch right as it shuts down forever
this last one had to be completely re-architected but I got the core functionality working. time to not think about this for at least a week :P
gnight from Juicy Bear 🐻
this last one had to be completely re-architected but I got the core functionality working. time to not think about this for at least a week :P
gnight from Juicy Bear 🐻
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all my apps gone!
from @glitch.com that is. have finally migrated them all (the good ones anyway)
- bluesky bots → @val.town
- express/fastify websites → netlify functions & htmx
- also archived some express websites to static html (spidered using wget) that didn’t need server code any more
from @glitch.com that is. have finally migrated them all (the good ones anyway)
- bluesky bots → @val.town
- express/fastify websites → netlify functions & htmx
- also archived some express websites to static html (spidered using wget) that didn’t need server code any more
July 6, 2025 at 11:34 AM
all my apps gone!
from @glitch.com that is. have finally migrated them all (the good ones anyway)
- bluesky bots → @val.town
- express/fastify websites → netlify functions & htmx
- also archived some express websites to static html (spidered using wget) that didn’t need server code any more
from @glitch.com that is. have finally migrated them all (the good ones anyway)
- bluesky bots → @val.town
- express/fastify websites → netlify functions & htmx
- also archived some express websites to static html (spidered using wget) that didn’t need server code any more
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alright! the Bluesky bot implementation of Tarot Bot @tarotbot.bsky.social has been ported to @val.town
gonna monitor for a couple days, but we're in a good position to keep up the daily readings after Glitch shuts down
gonna monitor for a couple days, but we're in a good position to keep up the daily readings after Glitch shuts down
July 2, 2025 at 6:00 PM
alright! the Bluesky bot implementation of Tarot Bot @tarotbot.bsky.social has been ported to @val.town
gonna monitor for a couple days, but we're in a good position to keep up the daily readings after Glitch shuts down
gonna monitor for a couple days, but we're in a good position to keep up the daily readings after Glitch shuts down
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twowords.val.run
Is It *Two* Words?, my latest janky little game, offers at most minutes of entertainment
Is It *Two* Words?, my latest janky little game, offers at most minutes of entertainment
July 1, 2025 at 12:55 PM
twowords.val.run
Is It *Two* Words?, my latest janky little game, offers at most minutes of entertainment
Is It *Two* Words?, my latest janky little game, offers at most minutes of entertainment
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finally hit character count! and @val.town handily sends an email of the error response! i think i am going to have it reset the sheep counter but also have it count the resets (using 🐺 perhaps?)
![screenshot of an email from valtown about my bot breaking because i hit character limit:
Error in counting-sheep-on-bluesky
Error: Invalid app.bsky.feed.post record: Record/text must not be longer than 300 graphemes
at ServiceClient.call (file:///opt/render/.cache/deno/npm/registry.npmjs.org/@atproto/api/0.2.10/dist/index.js:7096:15)
at eventLoopTick (ext:core/01_core.js:178:7)
at async PostRecord.create (file:///opt/render/.cache/deno/npm/registry.npmjs.org/@atproto/api/0.2.10/dist/index.js:14333:17)
at async Object.default [as value] (https://esm.town/v/jennschiffer/counting-sheep-on-bluesky@37-main/main.tsx:40:3)
at async mapped (ext:deno_http/00_serve.ts:399:18)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x5leeami62gbmjekf7ro6sqo/bafkreig6bu6u5bnrih6zoczy2odx5hqbr7rry7minypvaedao6kagfa4oy@jpeg)
June 28, 2025 at 10:33 PM
finally hit character count! and @val.town handily sends an email of the error response! i think i am going to have it reset the sheep counter but also have it count the resets (using 🐺 perhaps?)
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I made a @val.town because the IRS doesn't want to send me a notification about 501c3 approval. It checks every couple of hours and sends an email when the org finally shows up in search.
www.val.town/x/dpip/nonPr...
www.val.town/x/dpip/nonPr...
dpip/nonProfitChecker
www.val.town
June 28, 2025 at 10:42 PM
I made a @val.town because the IRS doesn't want to send me a notification about 501c3 approval. It checks every couple of hours and sends an email when the org finally shows up in search.
www.val.town/x/dpip/nonPr...
www.val.town/x/dpip/nonPr...
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The PDS server is also open source github.com/dropanchorap... and it runs comfortably on a free @val.town instance right now. Which honestly.. I think is pretty neat #typescript #atproto
GitHub - dropanchorapp/anchorPDS: A specialized ATProto server for check-in records, providing location-based social features for the Anchor ecosystem.
A specialized ATProto server for check-in records, providing location-based social features for the Anchor ecosystem. - dropanchorapp/anchorPDS
github.com
June 27, 2025 at 11:29 AM
The PDS server is also open source github.com/dropanchorap... and it runs comfortably on a free @val.town instance right now. Which honestly.. I think is pretty neat #typescript #atproto