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Steve Krouse
Essays by Steve Krouse
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- Posts
- 124 from 1 Nov 2012 to 23 Oct 2026
- Posting
- weekly (24 in the last year)
- Kind
- personal blog
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2026 22
- AI gets about 10x cheaper every year
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- What Shall I Teach My Son?
- Connecting every app to every other app
- Investor Update – July 2026
- Investor Update – June 2026
- Learning to code is still worthwhile
- On Chad Fowler's Phoenix Architecture
- Investor Update – May 2026
- Investor Update – April 2026
- AI Agents are briefly overhyped
- Investor Update – March 2026
- steve-eval – getting AI to write like me
- Reports of code's death are greatly exaggerated
- Investor Update – Feb 2026
- What if you never had to get an API key ever again?
- Personal Investor Relations
- Intelligence Buying Intelligence
- Delegation & management is what you do when you lack proper tools & abstractions
- Townie's back in town!
- Catching stars
- Advice to college students in 2026
2025 15
- Pickling Compute
- Introducing Val Town MCP
- Val Town for Teams
- Vibe code is legacy code
- Introducing Townie Credits
- Val Town Newsletter 25
- Upgrading vals
- The Val Town Blog is now hosted on Val Town
- Find a model
- Val Town Newsletter 24
- I proposed to my girlfriend in Quordle
- Introducing Val Town Projects
- Val Town Newsletter 23
- Post-mortem: esm.sh Breaking Changes
- What we learned copying all the best code assistants
2024 11
2023 22
- Val Town Newsletter 14
- Val Town Newsletter 13
- Post-mortem: SQLite data sharing
- The API we forgot to name
- Introducing Val Town v3
- Val Town Newsletter 12
- An Introduction to OpenAI fine-tuning
- Val Town Newsletter 11
- Val Town Newsletter 10
- Public Key Auth: Val Town users can be your users
- Introducing val.run
- Val Town Newsletter 9
- Val Town Newsletter 8
- Val Town Newsletter 7
- Restricted Library Mode
- Val Town Newsletter 6
- Val Town Newsletter 5
- Val Town Newsletter 4
- Val Town Newsletter 3
- Val Town Newsletter 2
- Security Disclosure 1
- Val Town Newsletter 1
2022 2
2019 3
2018 5
2017 7
2016 8
- Types are shapes — a graphical programming exploration
- TEDD — Technologically-Enabled Direct Democracy
- Goodbye, Seymour
- The Trick to Teach Anonymous Functions to 11-Year-Olds
- Scratch Has a Marketing Problem
- WoofJS — making JavaScript learnable
- The 4 Steps to Giving Magical Praise
- "Why do we need to learn this?"