Articles by stevekrouse
2

Steve-eval – getting AI to write like me (stevekrouse.com)

106

Reports of code's death are greatly exaggerated (stevekrouse.com)

1

What if you never had to get an API key ever again? (stevekrouse.com)

2

Bring Your Own Agent (BYOA) (val.town)

1

Intelligence Buying Intelligence (val.run)

1

Delegation and management is for when you lack proper tools and abstractions (stevekrouse.com)

1

What I haven't figured out (macwright.com)

1

Show HN: Repro.fyi – info-site on submitting bug reports (repro.fyi)

1

Show HN: repro.fyi – a guide on making minimal repros (repro.fyi)

1

Advice to College Students in 2026 (stevekrouse.com)

1

Catching Stars – finding customers and hires from your GitHub stargazers (val.town)

3

I migrated cursor.com from a CMS to raw code and Markdown (leerob.com)

1

Pickling Compute (val.town)

2

Val Town MCP (val.town)

1

First-run with agent skills from Anthropic (macwright.com)

1

I Know What You Did Last Summer (With Val Town) (raymondcamden.com)

1

In, Val, Out – I/O with a val in the middle (val.town)

1

Modal's $87M Series B (modal.com)

1

Winning = Fun (catherinejue.com)

2

How to keep package.json under control (val.town)

1

vt, the Val Town CLI (val.town)

1

Building a better online editor for TypeScript (val.town)

2

We Built an API for Clay (val.town)

2

Get the email address for GitHub username (val.town)

1

Domains by Wordle (dotcom.press)

2

AI SDK 5 (vercel.com)

2

Turning VS Code into a Product Framework (mailchi.mp)

1

Fixing Stuff on Prod (posthero.us)

4

We're Still Underestimating What AI Means (tinyclouds.org)

1

Townie Credits (val.town)

2

A Review of HyperCard (2019) (futureofcoding.org)

1

The Role of the Human Brain in Programming (youtube.com)

195

AI: Accelerated Incompetence (slater.dev)

2

Val Town for Glitch Users (val.town)

1

The End of Glitch (Even Though They Say It Isn't) (keith.is)

2

The internet could be so much better (catherinejue.com)

1

ThinkUp Tribute (macwright.com)

1

Get updates when the people you follow update their Bluesky profiles (val.town)

1

Bluesky ThinkUp Tribute (val.town)

3

Reading Zanzibar (macwright.com)

177

A hackable AI assistant using a single SQLite table and a handful of cron jobs (geoffreylitt.com)

3

The Val Town Blog Is Now Hosted on Val Town (val.town)

2

Dijkstra: On the foolishness of "natural language programming" (2010) (utexas.edu)

1

Find a Model (stevekrouse.com)

3

Show HN: I proposed to my girlfriend with an AI app (stevekrouse.com)

17

GPT4 level intelligence fell 1000x in 18 months (twitter.com/swyx)

1

Agent Experience (agentexperience.ax)

6

Show HN: Val Town Projects (val.town)

2

Surprising Embeddings (truisms.space)

1

Turning Data into Calendar Feeds (mattrossman.com)

59

What we learned copying all the best code assistants (val.town)

1

Show HN: Stringify.org – encode any text as a JavaScript string (stringify.org)

4

Show HN: CerebrasCoder – make websites in less than a second (cerebrascoder.com)

2

Devstats – Using Val Town to chart dependency bloat (val.town)

1

WIDE – service to store and query JSON incredibly quickly (val.run)

1

On Compositionality (2017) (julesh.com)

1

Find YC company employees in your users (val.town)

1

Building a code-writing robot and keeping it happy (val.town)

1

Val Town and Fal Partnership (val.town)

1

How we prototype API integrations with Val Town (campsite.com)

1

Begin Acquired by Sanity and Sunsetting (begin.com)

2

Show HN: stringify.org (stringify.org)

2

Townie AI (val.town)

3

The Web Component Success Story (jakelazaroff.com)

20

Joining the Open Source Pledge (val.town)

1

Fair Source: the next best model for commercial open source? (dieter.plaetinck.be)

26

How we built Townie – an app that generates fullstack apps (val.town)

2

vimarkdown – a simple web-based vim markdown editor (jxnblk.io)

4

The perks of a good OpenAPI spec (val.town)

1

New HTTP Val Runtime in Preview (val.town)

1

Zod is amazing. Here's why we're also using TypeBox (val.town)

4

Moving from Express to Fastify (val.town)

3

Show HN: Hackable uptime monitor & status page in 110 LOC (val.town)

1

Val Vibes: Semantic Search in Val Town (val.town)

62

Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers (maggieappleton.com)

1

Autogenerating Django Integration Tests (kolo.app)

22

Static Wordle (val.town)

2

Show HN: CronGPT – Generate cron expressions with ChatGPT (crongpt.com)

1

Trystero – Real-time WebRTC for webapps without a central server (github.com/dmotz)

94

Code search is hard (val.town)

6

Val Town Raised $5.5M from Accel, Tom Preston-Werner, Guillermo Rauch, others (val.town)

2

Moral Ecosystems: My Big Idea (subpixel.space)

2

Show HN: React-SSR-Mini – A React Metaframework for Val Town (val.town)

1

Not every function should be an API – deprecating the run API at Val Town (val.town)

1

Browsers can decompress gzip natively (val.town)

1

Redesigning the Val Town Editor (val.town)

3

Val Town: Set Up a Quick and Easy Web Scraper (nateeagle.com)

0

The API we forgot to name (val.town)

1

Llama Researcher (github.com/logangrasby)

2

Modal is GA and raised a 16M Series A (modal.com)

1

Val Town v3 (val.town)

1

Optimizing compiler for ts-pattern (zero runtime) (github.com/aidenybai)

2

Rain alerts in a TypeScript cron (val.town)

1

A free SQLite database for every Val Town user (val.town)

1

Handcrafted Emoji (jordanscales.com)

1

What Comes Next? (jordanscales.com)

1

An Introduction to OpenAI fine-tuning (val.town)

4

Val Town Runtime v3 – My mistakes were easy, the solutions simple (val.town)

2

The story behind HTTP 200 “OK” (val.town)

6

Unlimited Anonymous Emails (val.town)