• API Tokens Scopes

  Nov 1, 2024

  Improving security with granular control over permissions

• Val Town Town

  Nov 1, 2024

  Can we implement Val Town on Val Town?

• Val Town + Fal Partnership

  Oct 31, 2024

  Bringing lightning fast AI image generation to Val Town

• Val Town Newsletter 21

  Oct 11, 2024

  Townie upgrades & faster HTTP vals

• Introducing Townie AI

  Sep 26, 2024

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

• Val Town Newsletter 20

  Sep 7, 2024

  Townie AI, Faster vals, and Lockfiles

• Joining the Open Source Pledge

  Aug 30, 2024

  We donated $9,600 to open-source!

• How we lock your dependencies

  Aug 23, 2024

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

• How we built Townie – an app that generates fullstack apps

  Aug 22, 2024

  Like Claude Artifacts, but with a backend and database

• Security Disclosure 2

  Aug 1, 2024

  Missing permissions-checking in our internal save endpoint

• The perks of a good OpenAPI spec

  Jul 25, 2024

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

• Val Town Newsletter 19

  Jul 23, 2024

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

• Why is spawning a new process in Node so slow?

  Jul 19, 2024

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

• New HTTP Val Runtime in Preview

  Jul 17, 2024

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

• Zod is amazing. Here’s why we're also using TypeBox

  Jul 15, 2024

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

• Moving from express to fastify, pt 1

  Jul 2, 2024

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

• Val Town Newsletter 18

  Jun 25, 2024

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

• Val Vibes: Semantic search in Val Town

  Jun 18, 2024

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

• HTTP Streaming in Val Town

  Jun 13, 2024

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

• Val Town Newsletter 17

  May 29, 2024

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

• Post-mortem: Blob Storage Outage

  May 2, 2024

  Disclosure, mitigation, and next steps

• Redesigning Val Pages

  May 1, 2024

  A more understandable entry-point to Val Town

• Val Town Newsletter 16

  Apr 22, 2024

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

• Code Search is Hard

  Apr 10, 2024

  Searching code at scale without employing a search team is hard

• Val Town's Seed Round

  Apr 9, 2024

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

• Val Town Newsletter 15

  Feb 13, 2024

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

• The first four Val Town runtimes

  Feb 8, 2024

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

• Deprecating the Run API

  Feb 7, 2024

  Not every function should be an API

• Val Town Newsletter 14

  Dec 15, 2023

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

• Improving the Val Editor

  Dec 11, 2023

  Designing the core UI of editing

• Val Town Newsletter 13

  Nov 28, 2023

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

• Post-mortem: SQLite data sharing

  Nov 24, 2023

  Disclosing and fixing a recent security issue

• The API we forgot to name

  Oct 19, 2023

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

• Introducing Val Town v3

  Oct 3, 2023

  Our move to embrace web standards

• Val Town Newsletter 12

  Sep 5, 2023

  Product Hunt, v3 in development, and more

• An Introduction to OpenAI fine-tuning

  Aug 25, 2023

  How to customize OpenAI to your liking

• Val Town Newsletter 11

  Jul 31, 2023

  Hiring, podcasts, and more!

• Val Town Newsletter 10

  Jul 5, 2023

  A year of Val Town!

• Expanding the Vals API - RFC

  Jun 30, 2023

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

• Public Key Auth: Val Town users can be your users

  Jun 27, 2023

  A novel authorization scheme for Val Town

• Introducing val.run

  Jun 23, 2023

  Increasing the security of Val Town by isolating domains.

• Val Town Newsletter 9

  Jun 20, 2023

  Refactoring the core component of Val Town for better performance.

• Val Town Newsletter 8

  May 31, 2023

  Announcing Val Town Pro

• Migrating from Supabase

  May 19, 2023

  Our journey from Supabase to Postgres and Render

• Val Town Newsletter 7

  May 15, 2023

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

• Restricted Library Mode

  May 4, 2023

  Evolving Val Town’s security model

• Val Town Newsletter 6

  Apr 7, 2023

  Lots of little updates!

• Val Town Newsletter 5

  Mar 23, 2023

  Shipping our Deno runtime

• Val Town Newsletter 4

  Mar 2, 2023

  Rebuilding on Deno, HTML emails, and more

• Val Town Newsletter 3

  Feb 7, 2023

  Expanding our founding team

• Val Town Newsletter 2

  Jan 23, 2023

  Your monthly update of cool vals!

• Security Disclosure 1

  Jan 13, 2023

  Replacing our sandbox in response to a security disclosure

• Val Town Newsletter 1

  Jan 4, 2023

  Programmatic notifications, Hacker News API, and more.

• End-programmer Programming

  Nov 8, 2022

  A reflection on the goal of making programming for everyone.

• Val Town Newsletter 0

  Sep 20, 2022

  Smarter typeahead, tutorials, much more.