i accomplished three things this weekend! 1. wrote a new job description for hiring an infra engineer 2. rewrote the system prompt for townie (our ai coding agents) 3. released a new version of std/oauth - a minimalist "login with val town" auth library
i nominate @macwright.com yeah, val town is great at this! always happy to onboard anyone who wants personally :)
good no kings turnout in Cincinnati!
I wrote a few months ago that exhaustively reading r/domains on Reddit was like "an MBA in domains," but I've realized DNW is the real domains MBA
@allemann.org's domainnamewire.com has been an exceedingly useful resource for my domain book research
hats off to Andrew on *21 years* of domain reporting! amazing consistency - well worth a follow if you're domain-curious I recorded a video walkthrough of the latest val town blog post as a “draft” that would never see the light of day, then @stevekrouse.com said let’s just use it, so I was accidentally not too nervous/tight recording haha Correct
all right, in vancouver for #atmosphereconf! i have no idea what i'm doing. just went on a run and the salish trail is gorgeous, if anyone wants to run (~3.5mi, any pace >8m/mi) early mornings, lmk! 
Get a glimpse of what migrations will become in our latest blog
pris.ly/cFnS6ZC What if database migrations worked more like Git? 👀
That’s what we’re building with Prisma Next 👇
📈 Migrations form a graph of schema states
✨ Explicit before and after states for your schemas
🕐 No more time-stamp based sequence or operations
Built for humans + AI 🤖 dot meow: the next queer corner of the Internet
(like selling Subarus to lesbians)
dotcom.press/archive/dot-meow
write-up on @dotmeow.org's cool TLD bid!
in memory of my childhood cat "one-eyed jack" (who was two-eyed when these pictures were taken) 
If you're building software, you have to be a constant learner. Getting your peers and bosses excited about AI isn't about forcing it—it's about tapping into the innate curiosity we all share. Drop the old baggage. Take the spark and grow a fire.
Everyone ready for @rbqconf.bsky.social day two? We are! @aspleenic.bsky.social will be giving a talk and we still have plenty of swag to give away at the booth! Read more 👇
pris.ly/unique 🔍 Did you know Prisma lets you query by a combination of fields as a single unique key?
Define a compound unique constraint with @@unique, and use it directly in findUnique(): 
The talk of the val town! Delightful video by Mr @petemillspaugh.com
youtube.com/watch?v=mKXoAVVrlXc Bringing back the video version (which @stevekrouse.com used to do), inspired by @cassidoo.co's video newsletter and an old note from @simonwillison.net that I stumbled upon - thanks Cassidy and Simon :)
- youtube.com/watch?v=58pxBkr24s8
- simonwillison.net/2024/Feb/15/val-town-newsletter-15 
Talk of the Town, March 2026
blog.val.town/talk-of-the-town-mar-2026
(w/ video walkthrough: youtube.com/watch?v=mKXoAVVrlXc)
Feat. an "NYC doorman" val, literally calling vals (as in "call a function" but also "call your mother"), a millennial-core quiz about recycled tech hype, and lots more 
security was about 70% ice 30% ero
serenity now, enjoying my topical background music bonnieprincebilly.bandcamp.com/album/the-pu... so far: two teenage dhs agents, a whole bunch of hsi cops, no ice badges, chaos, roughly 2 hr line
✈️ LGA → YYZ → YVR → #atmosphereconf
(assuming i make all these flights and tsa is operating) 
We're at YHack this weekend (March 28–29)!
Esther and Anthony will be there, say hi and show them your editor config!
yhack.org