Steve Krouse

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

I build Val Town, a collaborative website to code in the cloud.

I founded the Future of Coding podcast & community, and co-cofounded The Coding Space. I've worked at Looker, First Round Capital, and studied computer science at the University of Pennsylvania.

This site was built in Val Town. It was viewed 2 times today, and 9,947 times in December 2025.

Projects

2022 Jul -Val Town
2022 Sep -Date Me Directory
2022 Jan -Zaplib
2021 Mar -Compose
2017 Jul -Future of Coding
2016 May -WoofJS
2015 Jul -The Coding Space

Essays

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

Podcasts

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

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