Steve Krouse

\n 👋 Hi, I'm Steve. I live in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn.\n

\n I build Val Town, a social website to code in the cloud.\n

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Projects

\n 2022 Jul -\n Val Town\n
\n 2022 Sep -\n Date Me Directory\n
\n 2022 Jan -\n Zaplib\n
\n 2021 Mar -\n Compose\n
\n 2017 Jul -\n Future of Coding\n
\n 2016 May -\n WoofJS\n
\n 2015 Sep -\n The Coding Space Curriculum\n
\n 2015 Jul -\n The Coding Space\n
\n 2014 Jan -Software Engineer @{\" \"}\n Looker\n
\n 2013 Jun -Software Engineer @{\" \"}\n First Round Capital\n
\n 2013 Jan -Partner @{\" \"}\n Dorm Room Fund\n
\n 2012 Sep -Computer Science @{\" \"}\n University of Pennsylvania\n

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Essays

\n 2025 Feb -\n \n I proposed to my girlfriend in Quordle\n \n
\n 2022 Nov -\n \n End-programmer Programming\n \n
\n 2019 Apr -\n \n Lunch with Alan Kay: how to become educated enough to invent the future\n \n
\n 2018 Oct -\n \n The \"Next Big Thing\" is a Room\n \n
\n 2017 Oct -\n Life Plan\n
\n 2017 Oct -\n \n WoofJS.com One Year Later\n \n
\n 2017 Jul -\n \n The Coding Space: Two Year Update\n \n
\n 2017 Jul -\n \n Learn to code in two-player mode\n \n
\n 2017 May -\n \n The Rose Project (April 2017)\n \n
\n 2017 Mar -\n The Rose Project (March 2017)\n
\n 2017 Jan -\n \n Resources for creating front-end programming languages and frameworks in 2017\n \n
\n 2016 Nov -\n \n Types are shapes — a graphical programming exploration\n \n
\n 2016 Nov -\n \n TEDD — Technologically-Enabled Direct Democracy\n \n
\n 2016 Aug -\n Goodbye, Seymour\n
\n 2016 Jul -\n \n The Trick to Teach Anonymous Functions to 11-Year-Olds\n \n
\n 2016 Jul -\n \n Scratch Has a Marketing Problem\n \n
\n 2016 Jul -\n \n WoofJS — making JavaScript learnable\n \n
\n 2016 Jun -\n \n The Coding Space: A year in review\n \n
\n 2016 Feb -\n \n The 4 Steps to Giving Magical Praise\n \n
\n 2016 Jan -\n \n \"Why do we need to learn this?\"\n \n
\n 2015 Dec -\n The Lens Lens\n
\n 2015 Dec -\n The College of the Future\n
\n 2015 Dec -\n \n Stop Paying $250k for a Degree and a Network\n \n
\n 2015 Nov -\n \n Incidentally for machines\n \n
\n 2015 Jun -\n A Cursory Education On Education\n
\n 2014 Jun -\n \n One year ago today I blogged that I'd never drop out of college\n \n
\n 2013 Sep -\n \n Making friends at the world's largest hackathon\n \n
\n 2013 Jul -\n Be a quitter\n
\n 2013 Jun -\n What It Really Means To Drop Out\n
\n 2013 May -\n Paying it Forward\n
\n 2013 Mar -\n Being Nice Matters\n
\n 2013 Nov -\n \n When nobody's watching\n \n
\n 2013 Nov -\n Stuffed Animal Priorities\n
\n 2013 Feb -\n \n Medieval Luxury, Modern Torture, and Education 2.0\n \n
\n 2013 Jan -\n Theseus and The Minotaur\n
\n 2012 Dec -\n IP And Innovation: A Software Case Study\n
\n 2012 Dec -\n \n Scheming Sororities and the Gale-Shapley Algorithm\n \n
\n 2012 Dec -\n The Arbitrary and The Elegant\n
\n 2012 Nov -\n Start Small\n

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Podcasts

\n 2023 Aug -\n JSParty × val.town with Steve Krouse\n
\n 2023 Aug -\n \n Scaling Devtools × val.town with Steve Krouse\n \n
\n 2023 July -\n \n Supper Club × val.town with Steve Krouse\n \n
\n 2023 Jul -\n \n CS Primer – What makes programming fun?\n \n
\n 2023 Apr -\n Devtools.fm – val.town\n
\n 2017 Jul -\n Future of Coding Podcast\n
\n 2016 Oct -\n \n Off Trail Learning - Dropping Out of College & the Silicon Valley Dream\n \n

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