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2024

Val Town Newsletter 15 (via) I really like how Val Town founder Steve Krouse now accompanies their “what’s new” newsletter with a video tour of the new features. I’m seriously considering imitating this for my own projects. # 15th February 2024, 4:26 pm

The first four Val Town runtimes (via) Val Town solves one of my favourite technical problems: how to run untrusted code in a safe sandbox. They’re on their fourth iteration of this now, currently using a Node.js application that launches Deno sub-processes using the deno-vm npm package and runs code in those, taking advantage of the Deno sandboxing mechanism and terminating processes that take too long in order to protect against while(true) style attacks. # 8th February 2024, 6:38 pm