Steve Krouse

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

I am passionate about the future of computing, education & media.

I spend most of my time these days working on Val Town, a social website to write & deploy code.

Projects

2022 Sep 29 - Date Me Directory
2022 Jul 01 - val.town
2022 Jan 01 - Zaplib
2021 Mar 01 - Compose
2017 Jul 13 - Future of Coding
2016 May 01 - WoofJS
2015 Sep 10 - The Coding Space Curriculum
2015 Jul 01 - The Coding Space
2014 Jan 20 - Software Engineer @ Looker
2013 Jun 20 - Software Engineer @ First Round Capital
2013 Jan 01 - Partner @ Dorm Room Fund
2012 Sep 20 - Computer Science @ University of Pennsylvania

Essays

2022 Nov 08 - End-programmer Programming
2019 Apr 17 - Lunch with Alan Kay: how to become educated enough to invent the future
2018 Oct 02 - The "Next Big Thing" is a Room
2017 Oct 24 - Life Plan
2017 Oct 19 - WoofJS.com One Year Later
2017 Jul 23 - The Coding Space: Two Year Update
2017 Jul 19 - Learn to code in two-player mode
2017 May 09 - The Rose Project (April 2017)
2017 Mar 25 - The Rose Project (March 2017)
2017 Jan 06 - Resources for creating front-end programming languages and frameworks in 2017
2016 Nov 19 - Types are shapes — a graphical programming exploration
2016 Nov 14 - TEDD — Technologically-Enabled Direct Democracy
2016 Aug 02 - Goodbye, Seymour
2016 Jul 27 - The Trick to Teach Anonymous Functions to 11-Year-Olds
2016 Jul 25 - Scratch Has a Marketing Problem
2016 Jul 12 - WoofJS — making JavaScript learnable
2016 Jun 22 - The Coding Space: A year in review
2016 Feb 20 - The 4 Steps to Giving Magical Praise
2016 Jan 08 - "Why do we need to learn this?"
2015 Dec 19 - The Lens Lens
2015 Dec 15 - The College of the Future
2015 Dec 05 - Stop Paying $250k for a Degree and a Network
2015 Nov 26 - Incidentally for machines
2015 Jun 13 - A Cursory Education On Education
2014 Jun 17 - One year ago today I blogged that I'd never drop out of college
2013 Sep 26 - Making friends at the world's largest hackathon
2013 Jul 09 - Be a quitter
2013 Jun 17 - What It Really Means To Drop Out
2013 May 13 - Paying it Forward
2013 Mar 21 - Being Nice Matters
2013 Nov 18 - When nobody's watching
2013 Nov 18 - Stuffed Animal Priorities
2013 Feb 09 - Medieval Luxury, Modern Torture, and Education 2.0
2013 Jan 14 - Theseus and The Minotaur
2012 Dec 24 - IP And Innovation: A Software Case Study
2012 Dec 06 - Scheming Sororities and the Gale-Shapley Algorithm
2012 Dec 22 - The Arbitrary and The Elegant
2012 Nov 01 - Start Small

Steve Krouse

Projects

Essays

Podcasts