Have you ever wanted to watch NYC traffic cams as ACII art? Me neither, but now you can too: val.town/v/maxm/asciiNy…

Val Town now supports HTTP streaming. I got to ship a feature I requested before joining Val Town. Read all about it. blog.val.town/blog/http-stre…

Arvid Kahl Yes. videolectures.net/wsdm09_dean_cb…

Susie Oviatt, ca 1993. text-mode.org/?p=24923

On certain versions of NodeJS, if you connect to an abstract unix domain socket ("\0foo"), it adds null byte padding to the end of the address, making it v hard to understand how to connect from elsewhere! github.com/nodejs/node/is… This was very tricky to figure out :/

The new Val Town http runtime is awesome. PGlite (WASM Postgres) cold start takes ~1.2s on old runtime, but with new reuse of a Deno process subsequent requests return in ~200ms 🔥 Run this, you will see the counter incrementing on each request: val.town/v/samwillis/pg…

A deep dive into NodeJS spawn performance: blog.val.town/blog/node-spaw… And an indirect attempt at baiting Jarred Sumner into helping me more deeply understand the performance differences here.

The improvement to the response times (log scale) of Steve Krouse's Static wordle stevekrouse-staticwordle.web.val.run after adding worker re-use: blog.val.town/blog/http-prev… And the smaller drop in volatility to the far right is adding deno.lock and better caching.

My quest to reduce the number of extra requests to Val Town's esm.town is coming to an end:

📰 New Blog Post: How we lock your dependencies Now every val gets its own Deno.lock file. Excellent work & blog post by Max McDonnell 🔥 blog.val.town/blog/lockfiles/

Pretty shapes in honeycomb graphs

Yet again I am left wondering how much money Github makes on Github Actions crons running in unused forks.

Finally did it: Val Town Town blog.val.town/blog/val-town-… No need for feature requests when you can implement the platform on the platform.

Whipped up a lil' instant search demo val.town/v/maxm/simpleW…