Steve Krouse

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

I build Val Town, a delightful way to write and deploy code in the cloud.

I founded the Future of Coding podcast & community and The Coding Space after-school program. I've worked at Looker and First Round Capital. I studied computer science at Penn.

We're hiring at Val Town. To learn how to best work with me, read my README.

This site was built in Val Town.

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

2026 Jul -Learning to code is still worthwhile
2026 Jun -On Chad Fowler's Phoenix Architecture
2026 May -AI Agents are briefly overhyped
2026 Mar -steve-eval – getting AI to write like me
2026 Mar -Reports of code's death are greatly exaggerated
2026 Mar -What if you never had to get an API key ever again?
2026 Mar -Personal Investor Relations
2026 Feb -Intelligence Buying Intelligence
2026 Feb -Delegation & management is what you do when you lack proper tools & abstractions
2026 Jan -Advice to college students in 2026
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

Twitter | Bluesky | Github | LinkedIn | RSS