buni library & links

• Val Town Runtime design: https://blog.val.town/blog/first-four-val-town-runtimes/
• Also Townie: https://blog.val.town/blog/codegen/
• Townie system prompt: https://gist.github.com/simonw/d8cc934ad76b3bba82127937d45dc719 (via blog)
• Also Val Town philosophy of End Programmer Programming
• And linked Maggie Appleton on Folk Interfaces

• Cursor code fast diff application: https://www.cursor.com/blog/instant-apply (a)
• On Fireworks: https://fireworks.ai/blog/cursor#fireworks-ai-promise
• Replit Agent

• Codemirror for web code editor:
• https://blog.replit.com/code-editors
• https://modal.com/blog/playground

• Websim prompts: https://gist.github.com/hourianto/e64eca5ef55ebf0360e39f26c486d377

• Steve Yegge’s Platforms Rant: https://gist.github.com/chitchcock/1281611
• Also: Tigger Kindel https://blog.kindel.com/2011/08/24/be-either-an-app-or-a-platform-not-both/

• SQLITE
• Perf (h/t jvns) https://kerkour.com/sqlite-for-servers
• Litestream https://fly.io/blog/all-in-on-sqlite-litestream/
• SQLite vector https://alexgarcia.xyz/blog/2024/sqlite-vec-hybrid-search/index.html

• CRDTs for code syncing
• Evan Wallace: https://madebyevan.com/algos/crdt-text-buffer/#references
• https://josephg.com/blog/crdts-go-brrr/
• https://www.inkandswitch.com/peritext/

• Better data sync paradigm than SQL server:
• Kind of have a product
• https://www.instantdb.com/
• https://www.edgedb.com/
• Very early
• https://zerosync.dev/
• https://jazz.tools/
• Ideas
• https://stack.convex.dev/not-sql
• https://josephg.com/blog/api-for-changes/
• https://riffle.systems/essays/prelude/

• OpenAI Canvas
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System prompt

• CDN
• https://fly.io/blog/the-5-hour-content-delivery-network/
• Macaroons for JWT-like representing auth for requests
• https://fly.io/blog/macaroons-escalated-quickly/
• Aside: Thomas Ptacek blog posts are gold
• Sandboxing code
• Investigating val town & deno: https://healeycodes.com/sandboxing-javascript-code
• Val Town on Firecracker https://fly.io/blog/sandboxing-and-workload-isolation/

• Evals
• v0 evals: https://vercel.com/blog/eval-driven-development-build-better-ai-faster
• townie evals: https://blog.val.town/blog/codegen/#evals

Inspirations

• Claude Artifacts
• System prompt: https://gist.github.com/dedlim/6bf6d81f77c19e20cd40594aa09e3ecd
• websim
• val.town
• replit agent
• Vercel v0 & shadcn