Steve Krouse
stevekrouse.com
Steve Krouse
@stevekrouse.com
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It was fun to build flickity.val.run

I turn each article linked from hackernews into a short video by summarizing the post, taking a screenshot and then combining them into a script for veo3.1

Video gen could be better, but surprisingly good.
December 14, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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love seeing val.town work through this in public. one of the hardest things we dealt with at glitch was never being able to narrow down to specific use cases - we wanted to be everything to everyone and that's part of how we ended up being nothing to anyone (rip)
December 8, 2025 at 10:35 PM
what we've been up to recently at val town: blog.val.town/pickling
Pickling Compute
Updates and articles from the Val Town team
blog.val.town
December 8, 2025 at 10:23 PM
ah the bicycle, the computer for the body
December 8, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Honeycomb really knows how to sticker!!! Thanks so much @charity.wtf ❤️
December 5, 2025 at 10:10 PM
📢 Introducing The Val Town MCP Server

Bring Val Town to your favorite LLM – Cursor, ChatGPT, Zed, wherever! AI coding, instant deployments, built-in SQLite

For example, here we use Claude Code to make a blog in a couple prompts

Learn more & get started 👉 blog.val.town/mcp
November 14, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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i wrote everything that i've been kind of nervous to write about @val.town: here's how things have been going the last three years, and read to the end for how we're hiring for two people macwright.com/2025/11/11/v...
Val Town 2023-2025 Retrospective
The whole story
macwright.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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made enough progress on coney letters to push to prod loopyletters.val.run/coney

like my other "find a big word" games, the words are random uniformly pulled from the wordnik list, which includes a lot of junk. i'm sorry. better on mobile than desktop.
November 9, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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recommitted to @opensourcepledge.com at @val.town for 2025! very pumped to support projects like zod, fastify, codemirror, unified, and esm.sh with real 💸 as well as positive vibes.

blog.val.town/oss-pledge
Year Two of the Open Source Pledge
Updates and articles from the Val Town team
blog.val.town
November 5, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Very excited about this Remix 3 Fetch Router demo by
@jim-nielsen.com

www.val.town/x/jimniels/f...

Remix 3 is still super early (and changing fast) but it's exciting how powerful this full-stack routing thing will be - seems like a perfect fit for val town

h/t @tylur.dev for finding this!
November 4, 2025 at 2:04 PM
i'm hiring a 'growth engineer' to work side-by-side with me at val.town in brooklyn

we're a small team on a mission to spread the joy of programming

we're looking for someone self-directed, loves talking to users, write english & typescript, and own projects end-to-end

if this is you, reach out!!
October 28, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Idea to sync a Discord channel and @tldraw.com board. Mozilla Hubs had something like that for VR spaces circa 2020. I could see using Discord and TLDraw together like a... bulletin board.
Talking to @stevekrouse.com about val.town ideas yesterday.
September 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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I spent the afternoon vibe coding a game and then atprotating it! Live at qbat.val.run
September 16, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Pretty sure this is why @val.town is going to win out.

Version control, modularity, team projects.
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
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i wrote a whole thing about wrangling npm dependencies because it's an unglamorous part of the job that's nevertheless really important. also because i wanted to make some watercolor illustrations. blog.val.town/gardening-de...
September 11, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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this is tom on the company account retweeting tom on the personal account, devrel maxing, read the post, it's good
(my new job at @val.town is editing the blog)

we launched a cli, called vt! you can run it in watch mode and it'll auto-deploy every time you change a file in your project, and you can use claude code, codex, or whatever the hottest new ai tool of the day is

blog.val.town/vt-cli
Introducing vt, the Val Town CLI
Updates and articles from the Val Town team
blog.val.town
September 10, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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(my new job at @val.town is editing the blog)

we launched a cli, called vt! you can run it in watch mode and it'll auto-deploy every time you change a file in your project, and you can use claude code, codex, or whatever the hottest new ai tool of the day is

blog.val.town/vt-cli
Introducing vt, the Val Town CLI
Updates and articles from the Val Town team
blog.val.town
September 10, 2025 at 3:07 PM
building a code editor in the browser is hard

huge kudos to @404wolf.bsky.social for making ours so good

this work is open-source, so you too can have amazing autocomplete, type information, go-to-definition, in your codemirror editor
September 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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this summer @val.town had an intern, and he was truly kickass: read about how @404wolf.bsky.social put the @deno.land LSP server in a cloudflare container, made it speak websockets, wired it up to codemirror, and made the whole thing scale: blog.val.town/vtlsp
Building a better online editor for TypeScript
Updates and articles from the Val Town team
blog.val.town
September 9, 2025 at 2:13 PM
We counted 6,575 💃 ("vals") before Bluesky asked me to stop

Every 15 minutes for the last couple months, we've been posting an increasingly insane number of vals. It's a testament to @jennschiffer.com's creativity and the permissiveness of the Bluesky API

RIP @counting-vals.bsky.social
September 7, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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🎉 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)
August 13, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Book Explorer is a very simple alternate UI for the
@bookhive.buzz social platform for book lovers. This
tool allows you to edit the status of your #atrproto stored books with a simple dropdown per book, or by bulk editing multiple selected books at once.

book-browser.val.run
Book Explorer
book-browser.val.run
August 4, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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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
August 2, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Vibe code is legacy code

blog.val.town/vibe-code
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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Just released the latest version 1.1.0 of my atproto-to-fediverse bridge, which runs on val.town, that fixes some bugs but also much improves the actual source code making it much more readable github.com/tijs/atproto...
Release Filter Fix · tijs/atproto-to-fediverse
🐛 Bug Fixes Fixed mention filtering bug: Posts starting with @ mentions are now properly filtered even when missing ATProto facet metadata Fixed Unicode handling: Mention detection now correctly h...
github.com
July 29, 2025 at 6:43 PM