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"textContent": "Talk of the Town is our series where we highlight neat public vals from the\nVal Town community. We have something for everyone, from OpenAI voice models &\nClaude managed agents to counting sheep on a cron val. And if you’re more\nwatcher than reader, please enjoy a\nvideo walkthrough.\n\n---\n\nJustin Uberti, Head of Realtime AI at OpenAI and\ncreator of WebRTC, is back with another OpenAI demo on Val Town:\nrealtime-typer, live at\nrealtyper.val.run, which transcribes speech to text\nusing with impressively low latency.\n\n<div style=\"display: flex; justify-content: center; margin-bottom: 1rem;\">\n <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n <p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Guess who's back, back again. Whisper, but now with realtime streaming. Check out the new gpt-realtime-whisper transcription model in my <a href=\"https://t.co/b2UTuSxhOI\">https://t.co/b2UTuSxhOI</a> demo. <a href=\"https://t.co/ONusKRSRD2\">pic.twitter.com/ONusKRSRD2</a></p>\n — Justin Uberti (@juberti) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/juberti/status/2052478775523512356?refsrc=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 7, 2026</a>\n </blockquote>\n <script async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n</div>\n\nJustin also updated his\nhello-realtime demo to use\nthe new model (which now has “reasoning” capabilities). It’s\nlive at hello-realtime.val.run, or by calling\n425-800-0042!\n\n---\n\nCharlie built a\nclaude-managed-agents\nval to showcase Anthropic’s new managed agents, launched last week. As Michael\non the Anthropic team said, you can remix the val to get managed agents working\nin under 2 minutes.\n\n<div style=\"display: flex; justify-content: center; margin-bottom: 1rem;\">\n <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n <p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">0 to fully functional in less than 2 minutes! <a href=\"https://twitter.com/CharlieMolthrop?refsrc=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CharlieMolthrop</a> this is awesome. please keep sharing your work and tell me what's missing for you <a href=\"https://t.co/MHCRw4viNc\">https://t.co/MHCRw4viNc</a>\n </p>\n — Michael Cohen (@himc) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/himc/status/2053156422385377701?refsrc=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 9, 2026</a></blockquote>\n <script async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n</div>\n\nCharlie also improved our\nai-slackbot template val, which\npre-fills API scopes, events, and webhook URL from a manifest file to make the\nTime To Aha even faster setting up your Slack agent.\n\n---\n\nTijs Teulings customized a pocket e-reader with a Val\nTown backend to pull a reading list and convert to EPUB.\n\n<div style=\"display: flex; justify-content: center; margin-bottom: 1rem;\">\n <blockquote\n class=\"bluesky-embed\"\n data-bluesky-uri=\"at://did:plc:aq7owa5y7ndc2hzjz37wy7ma/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj5j3shgs22s\"\n data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreiejzad6rsu4zhjsrncn7gaop54lovmcrjz5rswlazbxqzrhn2b5dy\"\n data-bluesky-embed-color-mode=\"system\"\n >\n <p lang=\"en\">\n Needed more proof the age of personal software is here?\n I got this Xteink X4 pocket e-reader.\n I flashed it with open source firmware.\n Then vibecoded a backend running on @val.town that pulls tagged articles from @kipclip.com and converts them to epub ...\n <br><br>\n <a href=\"https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:aq7owa5y7ndc2hzjz37wy7ma/post/3mj5j3shgs22s?refsrc=embed\">[image or embed]</a>\n </p>— Tijs Teulings 🦑 (<a href=\"https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:aq7owa5y7ndc2hzjz37wy7ma?refsrc=embed\">@tijs.org</a>)\n <a href=\"https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:aq7owa5y7ndc2hzjz37wy7ma/post/3mj5j3shgs22s?refsrc=embed\">April 10, 2026 at 10:15 AM</a>\n </blockquote>\n <script async src=\"https://embed.bsky.app/static/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n</div>\n\nTijs also made an openpds val, live at\nopenpds.val.run, and an\natproto-to-fediverse val\nthat syncs Bluesky posts to Mastodon, live on\natproto-to-fediverse.val.run. And bonus\npoints: Tijs’s personal website is also\na val!\n\n---\n\nEric Feng from Kernel made\nplaywright-cdp-connect to\nconnect to a Kernel browser via CDP using Playwright. The Kernel team also has\nvals for\nStagehand + Gemini Computer Use,\nPlaywright, and\nPuppeteer.\n\n---\n\nPaul Kinlan, Chrome DevRel Lead at Google, is\nback at it again with a\nHacker News watcher val, live at\nhn-push.val.run.\n\n---\n\nOmar Aziz from Tempo (Stripe’s\nblockchain) made an mpp-demo val to\nshowcase the Machine Payments Protocol (MPP).\n\n---\n\nKaspars Dancis, founder and CTO of\nWhimsical, made a useful cron val that checks\navailability of a domain name. We remixed his val into a\ndomain-availability\ntemplate that lets you add as many domains as you’d like to track and emails you\nwhen they become available. I know I’d like my surname’s dot com, but I don’t\nthink the circa-1858 family furniture company who owns it (no relation) will\ngive it up any time soon.\n\n---\n\nMariano Guerra, co-author of\nWASM from the Ground Up and the Feeling of Computing newsletter, made a\nrecursive-task-lists\nREST API using Val Town SQLite and OAuth.\n\n---\n\nSri made a\nvsky-network val, live at\nvsky.val.run, that broadcasts crawl requests to a\nnetwork of atproto relays.\n\n---\n\nAlex McRoberts made a\nbluesky-thread-reader\nval, live at btr.val.run.\n\n---\n\nSteve gave a talk at the Betaworks\nBeyond Text event, and of course\nmade a beyond-text val to\ndemo live. Steve also built\nvoice-townie, a way to talk\nto Townie via phone using the Vapi voice agent and Val Town MCP server, and\nremix-3-beta-demo, a\nminimal val using recently released Remix 3.\n\nSteve also recorded a\nVal Town 101 video for anyone who\nwants to learn how to (vibe) code: “This is the video I wish I could’ve watched\nwhen I was 14 and wanted to know how to make web apps.” Pass it along to those\nfriends of yours who want to build websites and finally feel like they might be\nable to.\n\n---\n\nJenn Schiffer made a\ncounting-sheep-on-bluesky\nval to power her\ncounting sheep bot: 30k\nsheep and counting 🐑\n\n---\n\nkamalnrf as a prolific Val Town power\nuser relies on his valLauncher to\nconveniently search through the public HTTP endpoints across all of his vals. He\nalso made defuddle,\nlive at defuddle.val.run as a convenient wrapper\naround the defuddle web page to markdown service. I think\nanyone will have fun (and maybe eat some humble pie) spending 5 or 10 minutes on\nKamal’s flag-quiz.val.run 🇯🇵 🇧🇯 🏴 🇦🇶 🇨🇦 🇪🇨 🇦🇺\n\n---\n\nNico Baier, another prolific citizen of\nVal Town, created: brrr and\nntfy, push notification libraries for\nbrrr.now and ntfy.sh, respectively;\nsheet-exporter to export public\nGoogle Sheets to CSV or JSON; vt-ssg, a\nlightweight static site generator; and\nagentfs, a Val Town port of Pekka\nEnberg’s agentfs.\n\n---\n\nPeter Liu made\nSQLiteTable, his own SQLite ORM of\nsorts with HTTP access and vector search.\n\n---\n\nRaymond Camden wrote another fun Val\nTown blog post!\nUsing Val Town and Gemini for Sports Ball Stuff.\n\n---\n\nBritt Lewis made\npruning-calculator,\na prompt cache economics pruning calculator.\n\n---\n\nJosh Beckman from Shopify made a\npreRead val to consumer a web page\nthrough the lens of his knowledge garden.\n\n---\n\nAjaya from Subconcious made\nsubconscious-getting-started\nto use the Subconscious AI agent API on Val Town.\n\n---\n\nWilliam Kang ported he and Luke\nMuoio’s\nWHOOP dataset/study\nto Val Town.\n\n---\n\nv7er made\nepocket, a backend for a Chrome extension\nthat defines and saves words as you browse the web.\n\n---\n\ngarmeeh made\nMyEnergi to automate Zappi and Eddi\ncharging devices using the MyEnergi API.\n\n---\n\nandrewau made\nlyric.val.run, a lyric\nanalysis API tool for Claude.\n\n---\n\nbao created\nnatgeo, an RSS feed for National\nGeographic articles.\n\n---\n\nIsh made a does-one-thing val called\nHowManyDays live at\nhowmanydays.val.run. We’re already 131 days into\n2026!\n\n---\n\nrecoeye made an\napi-watchdog val that monitors\nyour API every minute and reports downtime to Slack with live-updating messages.\n\n---\n\nDouglas Mustapick made a\npersonal website val\nfor his AI consulting business.\n\n---\n\newired made\nhf-activity-rss, an RSS feed\nfor HuggingFace user activity pages.\n\n---\n\nIf you’d like to be featured in next month’s Talk, share your vals in our\n channel on Discord! (Or share them\naround the web, and we’ll see them in Discord thanks to Octolens.)",
"title": "Talk of the Town — May 2026"
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