| title: | Talk of the Town, Mar '26 |
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| description: | TODO |
| pubDate: | 2026-03-25:00:00.000Z |
| author: | Pete Millspaugh |
| thumbnail: | https://imagedelivery.net/iHX6Ovru0O7AjmyT5yZRoA/07797b16-d254-4337-f171-27ce776c1500/public |
This is our second edition of Talk of the Town, where we highlight neat vals in userspace and themes from the community.
Here, we mean call as in "call your mother" more so than "call the API." Or really, both. Justin Uberti made a hello-realtime val to demo OpenAI's Realtime API. The val is live at hello-realtime.val.run and 425-800-0042 so you can call the val!
- Paul Kinlan wrote a colourful-scrollbar val that changes color based on scroll position (live at colourful-scrollbar.val.run)
- Paul Kinlan https://www.val.town/x/paulkinlan/email-agent/code/
- Peter Liu wrote an importLatest utility val that grabs the latest version of any dependency, bypassing the cache
- Steve created vtrr, a Val Town React Router framework with SSR and client-side hydration and navigation
- Steve made a microgpt in Val Town, based on Andrej Karpathy's python microGPT
- Steve crypto API key thing
- Raymond Cameron wrote a blog post, Using Val Town to Get Me to the Movies
- peterl Pinecone utility for vector embeddings
Pete made a copy-sqlite-table val to copy your account-scoped sqlite databases to a specific val (because now every val gets its own database). Then Nico remixed it to make an even better migrate-sqlite val that fully migrates tables, views, indexes, and triggers from account- to val-scoped databases.
Pete built duck, a simple Slack agent in Val Town using the Vercel AI SDK. Agents are so hot right now, and so duck is meant to get your wheels turning on the broader Bring Your Own Agent (BYOA) pattern we've observed.