Val Town Newsletter 11
Steve Krouseon
This month we shipped autosave, comments, email a val, an expanded API, and dozens more features, big and small. We’re hiring a full time engineer in NYC and a part-time docs writer. We were featured on a couple of podcasts and newsletters, and y’all tweeted some really cool vals.
We’re looking for a founding engineer to join us in New York.
We’re also hiring someone to help with docs and community part-time and remote.
Come work with us! Email me at steve@val.town if you’re interested.
I did a bit of a podcast tour over the last month, and it was a lot of fun!
Vals now autosave in localstorage, so you can fearlessly leave the tab without losing your work.
You can now write helpful and constructive comments on vals!
Now you can send an email to a val to trigger it to run. Each val gets its own email address: username.valname@valtown.email. The val gets passed the email data as the first argument. Try it out by sending an email to stevekrouse.testEmail2@valtown.email to trigger this val:
We quietly released the first expansion of our API to let you list & search vals and users. Nico and Achille from our community were quick to release a zod client, which works on Val Town.
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- View all the vals you likedDisable-able code transformations (in preferences)TypesSocial links (in preferences)More
fetch proxies (now you can fetch from .gov!)Welcome email (that you send yourself in the onboarding tutorial via console.email!)Link to a prefilled new val editor (example)The limit on val sizes is 250kb for pro usersUpgraded to Deno 1.35.0Better error messages on the Run APIImproved output types of apiPlaceholder text in new val editorType acquisition from esm.shPolishes to our quick-search componentFull text searches README contentPolishes to the new val editorView trending scheduled vals- Notifications (errors, likes, references, forks, etc)Fork Vals (in a first-class, semantic way where we track this in the database)Expanded API (to power a VS Code extension & more!)Discord bot tutorials and guidesImprovements to embedded valsPublic foldersVal version pinningIntegrated LLMs (have AI write your vals for you)More web-standard and JS compatibility
https://twitter.com/wesbos/status/1681341649786486785?s=20
https://twitter.com/stevekrouse/status/1684942769381359616?s=20
https://twitter.com/JavascriptJam/status/1684274929104199682?s=20
https://twitter.com/n_moore/status/1682112004461404160?s=20
https://twitter.com/MerlinMason/status/1681604496395235328?s=20
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https://twitter.com/VladyslavSitalo/status/1682534233070510080?s=20
https://twitter.com/carlvonblixen/status/1680104094927671296?s=20
https://twitter.com/ValDotTown/status/1682383005204066310?s=20
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https://twitter.com/TeviePy/status/1681045530472861698?s=20
https://twitter.com/Julien_Delort/status/1680208141995130881?s=20
https://twitter.com/tmcw/status/1679579980840173568?s=20
https://twitter.com/Andre_Terron/status/1679565630989582338?s=20
https://twitter.com/stevekrouse/status/1679519695680991233?s=20
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