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Dan Levine
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Accel. Life has treated me well and I am thankful.
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balbrecht.bsky.social
It must have taken a machine to put Andreessen this far up his own ass.
vikrambath.bsky.social Vikram Bath @vikrambath.bsky.social · Apr 30
AGI is coming for all of us. It will write symphonies, direct movies, and author the best novels.

The only thing it won’t be able to do is VC investing, which must be reserved as a task only for the most-special people
Marc Andreessen says when AI does everything else, VC might be one of the last jobs still done by humans. It's more art than science. There's no formula. Just taste, psychology, and chaos tolerance.
April 30, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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danabra.mov
i’m sorry i don’t usually repost this kind of stuff but this is just so funny. there’s an intangibility to it..
vikrambath.bsky.social Vikram Bath @vikrambath.bsky.social · Apr 30
AGI is coming for all of us. It will write symphonies, direct movies, and author the best novels.

The only thing it won’t be able to do is VC investing, which must be reserved as a task only for the most-special people
Marc Andreessen says when AI does everything else, VC might be one of the last jobs still done by humans. It's more art than science. There's no formula. Just taste, psychology, and chaos tolerance.
April 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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migueldeicaza.bsky.social
Turn your Apple TV into a Tailscale exit node, or just access it remotely:

tailscale.com/kb/1280/appl...
Install Tailscale on an Apple TV · Tailscale Docs
Learn how to install Tailscale on an Apple TV.
tailscale.com
January 18, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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phamous.dev
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
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.
January 10, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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hojberg.xyz
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.
January 9, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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mattrossman.com
✍️ 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...
Turning data into calendar feeds
mattrossman.com
January 7, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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baolei.org
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.
Screenshot of the cipher game.
January 2, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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jdan.me
@tldraw.com computer and @val.town are besties
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.
December 28, 2024 at 9:15 PM
daniel-levine.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/o...
Opinion | No, You Don’t Get an A for Effort
High marks reward excellence, not grit.
www.nytimes.com
December 26, 2024 at 10:33 AM
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gksh.dev
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
December 18, 2024 at 1:04 AM
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stevekrouse.com
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
December 17, 2024 at 4:27 PM
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vlad.sitalo.org
Built on @val.town which has been helping me to overcome my "backend infrastructure PTSD" 🙃
December 14, 2024 at 7:51 PM
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ckj.bsky.social
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...
December 12, 2024 at 11:15 PM
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stevekrouse.com
If you have an API, your users can extend your app with Val Town. I love to see it 😍
marianoguerra.org Mariano Guerra @marianoguerra.org · Dec 11
Live Coding an Interactive Tool with @val.town & LLMs

Quickly prototype interactive data components without the need for local installation or setup

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPLq...
Live Coding an Interactive Tool with Val Town & AI
YouTube video by Gloodata
www.youtube.com
December 11, 2024 at 3:23 PM
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ellie.wtf
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
A screenshot of ellie.wtf shwoing my now playing widget
December 10, 2024 at 9:08 PM
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crmarsh.com
uv has made it into GitHub's default .gitignore
gitignore/Python.gitignore, with a uv.lock entry
December 9, 2024 at 5:57 PM
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stevekrouse.com
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
Townie upgrades, Scoped API permissions, Fal partnership
blog.val.town
December 2, 2024 at 9:05 PM
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stevekrouse.com
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
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.
December 2, 2024 at 9:03 PM
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samwho.dev
Oh hell yes, I am definitely going to be trying this.
December 1, 2024 at 9:32 AM
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baolei.org
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...
Screenshot of an RSS feed based on a Notion website generated using the val.town val mentioned in this post.
December 1, 2024 at 7:53 AM
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mitsuhiko.at
Yes, we did a thing. And I think it's fun :) www.debugdecember.com
Debug December
Help the Yeti get home. Play Debug December and win cool prizes.
www.debugdecember.com
December 1, 2024 at 12:46 AM
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samwho.dev
This one's for the folks at @val.town.

www.twitch.tv/samwhoo/clip...
samwhoo - val.town hat time
Watch samwhoo's clip titled
www.twitch.tv
November 29, 2024 at 10:47 PM
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just-be.dev
Hey friends! Big news. I'm working at @val.town now!
November 25, 2024 at 2:51 PM
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pierredewulf.bsky.social
hi bluesky, let's talk MRR and all that.
November 25, 2024 at 2:55 PM
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baggiponte.bsky.social
How I am going about my days lately (cc @crmarsh.com)
A four-panel comic strip titled 'The Jenkins Comic.' 1. In the first panel, a character in a blue shirt introduces himself to another character in a yellow shirt, saying, 'Hi! My name is Jason.' 2. In the second panel, the character in the yellow shirt responds, 'Ah! Nice to meet you, Jason.' 3. In the third panel, the character in the yellow shirt is shown with a thought bubble. Inside the bubble, there are labels for 'Friends,' 'Family,' and 'Python Packaging,' with 'Python Packaging' highlighted prominently. 4. In the fourth panel, the character in the blue shirt asks the character in the yellow shirt, 'Say Jarvis, have you ever heard of uv?' The character in the yellow shirt looks puzzled. Generate with Mistral Large 202411
November 25, 2024 at 8:12 AM