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CoRecursive: Coding StoriesStory: The Power of Context: Reimagining LearningHave you ever found yourself in a situation where learning felt like an uphill battle? Like no matter how hard you tried, the pieces just wouldn't fall into place? Steve Krouse's story shows the power of the right learning environment. As a child, Steve felt he wasn't good at math. But everything changed with an afterschool program called IMACS. Initially skeptical, he soon embraced its creative approach, which encouraged self-paced learning. At IMACS, Steve learned to think on paper, grasping math concepts through programming languages like Logo and Scheme. This confidence moved him from remedial to...2025-05-0245 min

The Next NextSteve Krouse on Val Town's Vision for Collaborative CodingDemocratizing Programming: The Vision of Val Town with Steve Krouse In this episode of 'The Next Next,' host Jason Jacobs interviews Steve Krouse, founder of Val Town, a platform designed to make programming more accessible and collaborative through web-based tools. Steve talks about the challenges of traditional code collaboration, the integration of AI tools into Val Town, and their growth strategy focused on interoperability. He emphasizes the potential long-term impact of Val Town on democratizing programming for both professional developers and newcomers. The conversation also explores the evolution of AI in coding, the importance of accessible programming, and...2025-03-311h 12

AI & IDo 60-Minute Coding Tasks in 60 Seconds—With AI - Ep. 41 with Steve KrouseHere’s the most compelling benchmark of AI progress: A task that took 60 minutes a year ago now takes 60 seconds.In January 2024, researcher Geoffrey Litt and I spent an hour coaxing ChatGPT to build a simple app on this podcast. Nearly 12 months later, Steve Krouse and I built the same app with one prompt in less than minute.Steve is the cofounder and CEO of Val Town, a cloud-based platform for developers to write, share, and deploy code directly in the browser. In this episode, we used Townie, an AI...2024-12-041h 01

AI and IDo 60-Minute Coding Tasks in 60 Seconds—With AI - Ep. 41 with Steve KrouseHere’s the most compelling benchmark of AI progress: A task that took 60 minutes a year ago now takes 60 seconds. In January 2024, Geoffrey Litt and I spent an hour coaxing ChatGPT and Replit to build an app live on my podcast.12 months later, Steve Krouse and I built the same app with one prompt in less than a minute. Steve is the cofounder and CEO of Val Town, a cloud-based platform for developers to write, share, and deploy code directly in the browser. We used Townie, Val Town’s AI assistant, to build an app...2024-12-041h 01

Innovating Leadership: Co-Creating Our FutureS10-Ep26: Eat Mor Chikin: Chick-fil-A’s CMO on Their Recipe for SuccessGuest: Steve Robinson, former Chief Marketing Officer, Chick-fil-A Chick-fil-A – and their cows – are now an iconic fast food brand. That type of brand recognition doesn’t happen by accident: it requires great leadership creating a culture of innovation. What can you learn from their success? Steve Robinson unfolds the layers of leadership principles with real stories from Chick-fil-A’s history to demonstrate each one. Like other major brands, they’ve had PR bumps along the way, but worked through to continued success. Steve’s insights explain why – and it all wraps around leaders’ unique view of th...2024-07-0934 min

Grit#172 Professor at UPenn & Author, Angela Duckworth: GritGuest: Angela Duckworth, professor at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance“There’s got to be a cost” when you pursue your passions, says University of Pennsylvania professor Angela Duckworth; in fact, the word “passion” comes from the Latin word for “suffering.” But that doesn’t mean that gritty people are unhappy. After the time needed for sleep, daily exercise, friends, and family, Dr. Duckworth explains, “what’s left is more than 40 hours.” Informed by her research and her own happiness, she tries to discourage her students from settling for a 9...2024-01-081h 11

Future of CodingMyths & Mythconceptions by Mary ShawIn the spirit of clearly communicating what you're signing up for, this podcast episode is nearly three hours long, and among other things it contains a discussion of a paper by author Mary Shaw titled Myths & Mythconceptions which takes as an organizing principle a collection of myths that are widely believed by programmers, largely unacknowledged, which shape our views on the nature of programming as an activity and the needs of programmers as people and the sort of work that we do as a sort of work, and where by acknowledging these myths the three of us (Mary Shaw...2023-12-292h 58

Scaling DevToolsBuilding a developer social network with Steve Krouse from Val TownSteve Krouse is the founder of Val.town - a social website where you can write and run code.Introduction to Val.Town's vision 0:00How long it took Github to make money on SteveVal Town is a social website where you can write and run javascript or typescript, run the code on servers, and see the results.Knocking down friction points 2:12Val Town is making it so that programmers can create cool stuff without having to go through the pain of sending an email.Zapier for developers is another kind of tagline that has been seen other people...2023-08-2941 min

Sound Chaser Progressive Rock PodcastSound Chaser 251The Sound Chaser Progressive Rock Podcast is on the air. The show this time includes new music from Sudler’s Row, Jaymz Dare, and Head Spin. There’s the usual mix of styles and periods in the history of progressive music. All that, plus news of tours and releases on Sound Chaser. Playlist1. Steve Hackett - Camino Royale, from Somewhere in South America2. Strawberry Alarm Clock - Soft Skies, No Lies, from Wake Up ... It's Tomorrow3. Buffalo Springfield - Hung Upside Down, from Again4. The Nice - Bonnie K., from...2023-08-123h 37

Changelog Master FeedTake me to Val Town (JS Party #287)Val Town is a shiny, new social programming environment to write, run, deploy and share code. Steve Krouse –Val Town creator– joins Jerod & Amal to tell us all about it. Leave us a comment Changelog++ members get a bonus 5 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today! Sponsors: Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and database...2023-08-101h 00

JS Party: JavaScript, CSS, Web DevelopmentTake me to Val TownVal Town is a shiny, new social programming environment to write, run, deploy and share code. Steve Krouse –Val Town creator– joins Jerod & Amal to tell us all about it. Join the discussionChangelog++ members get a bonus 5 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today!Sponsors:Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databases...2023-08-101h 00

The CS Primer ShowE9: What makes programming fun? With Steve Krouse of val.townSteve Krouse is the founder of val.town, a social network where you write and run - and maybe poke - code? Steve's a fellow computer science education and developer tools enthusiast. We explore what makes programming fun - and how tools like val.town might just be able to recapture that joy we've all felt with computers before.Shownotes:val.townSteve Krouse Seymour PapertMindstorms by Seymour Papert (book)ZachtronicsCaveman Chemistry (book)Primitive Technology (book)Hack Club 2023-07-2158 min

Syntax - Tasty Web Development TreatsSupper Club × val.town with Steve KrouseIn this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Steve Krouse about val.town, what it is, his philosophies on teaching people to code, the tech stack for val.town, and the benefits of inspiring kids to learn to code. Show Notes 00:36 Welcome 01:27 Who is Steve Krouse? Steve Krouse Future of Coding stevekrouse (Steve Krouse) · GitHub Steve Krouse (@stevekrouse) on Twitter Coding Classes for Kids & Teens | Coding for Kids | The Coding Space 03:06 What is Val.town? Val Town 08:35 Where did the inspiration for social dev environments come from? 12:52 WYSIWYG code vs being code first 16:30 How d...2023-07-1458 min

devtools.fm: Developer Tools, Open Source, Software DevelopmentSteve Krouse - val.townThis week we talk to Steve Krouse, the creator of Val.Town, a platform for writing TypeScript code in a browser and deployed instantly. Starting with Steve's with his first venture into teaching children to code we trace that line directly to the vision of Val.Town. Val.Town is a social network, app store, and collaborative place all in one. https://twitter.com/stevekrouse https://stevekrouse.com/ https://val.town https://futureofcoding.org/episodes/ Become a paid subscriber our patreon, spotify, or apple podcasts for the full episode. https://www.patreon.com/devtoolsfm 2023-04-1450 min

Console DevToolsDesigning dev products, with Ellen Chisa (Boldstart) - S02E09In this episode we speak to Ellen Chisa, who was previously CEO of Dark, a programming language startup that allowed you to focus on your backend code and forget about frameworks, deployments, and infrastructure. We discuss whether that is the right way to think about coding, where no code or low code fits into the modern development stack, how developers should think about open source and the challenges of building dev tools versus getting developers to actually use them.About Ellen ChisaEllen Chisa is a founder, angel investor, and engineer. She created Dark, a...2022-03-0332 min

Future of CodingAmjad Masad: ReplitThe name Replit will be familiar to regular listeners of our show. The backstory and ambitions behind the project, however, I bet will be news to you. Amjad Masad, the founder and first programmer of Replit, is interviewed by Steve Krouse in this episode from the vault — recorded back in 2019, released for the first time today. Amjad shares the stories of how he taught himself to use a computer by secretly observing his father, his early experiments with Emscripten building VMs for the web, the founding of Replit, and how their community has exploded in popularity in recent years. So...2021-08-272h 00

The Pisara Tales(21) Why Do I Need To Know This?We often hear this a lot from students. Let's try to bring meaning back to learning. References: Steve Krouse's article - https://tinyurl.com/TPTEp21Source1 "Why Do We Need to Learn This?" by Dr. Allen Mendler (via Edutopia) - https://tinyurl.com/TPTEp21Source2 “Why Do I Need to Know This?” by Cristin Barrett (via Faculty Focus) - https://tinyurl.com/TPTEp21Source3 "The Persistence and Transience of Memory" by Blake A. Richards and Paul W. Frankland - https://tinyurl.com/TPTEp21Source4 2020-11-3031 min

ycdi·di (You can do it, do it)Jenny Currier is a WriterThis week we're joined by Jenny Currier - Motif food editor and writer, RI food tour embassador, blogger, author and world traveler - for a conversation about taking leaps of faith, travel, finding joy in every day and the transformative experience of writing. Topics include the writing process, the importance of experiencing new things, books that inspire, what makes a great writer, food journalism, and following your intuition cross-country into a new career. Show Notes The origin of Captain Currier What it's like being a food writer Publicly logging joyfulness every day for a year The writing process The community...2019-04-1943 min

Future of CodingWelcome to the Future of CodingHi, I'm Steve Krouse. Welcome to my podcast and open-journal research project to create the future of coding. I believe the tools we currently use to create software can be drastically improved. Join me on my journey to discover the future of coding. Every week I alternate between recapping my own research and talking with programming language and interface experts. You can follow my progress at futureofcoding.org.Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/futureofcodingSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.2017-07-1403 min

Off-Trail LearningSteve Krouse on Dropping Out of College to Live the Silicon Valley Dream22-year-old Steve Krouse, co-founder of The Coding Space in New York City (thecodingspace.com), talks about his decision to leave his Computer Science major at the University of Pennsylvania to enter the world of tech and startups. We discuss why this path worked for Steve, whether it works for other young people, the role of privilege in quitting school, and practical advice for convincing parents to support your decision. * * * Want to help more young adults choose self-directed learning? Support this podcast with a $1-$2 automatic donation per episode: www.offtraillearning.com/support Provide feedback or suggest new topics/guests anytime...2016-10-091h 10

Otherppl with Brad ListiEpisode 356 — Erika KrouseErika Krouse is the guest. Her new novel, Contenders, is available now from Rare Bird Books. It is the official April pick of The Nervous Breakdown Book Club. Bookslut says "Krouse...writes with a pulse-pounding and engaging ferocity that grabs at the reader...Contenders is heart-racingly original." And Steve Almond says "Contenders is a knockout! I've never read anything like it. The marvelous Erika Krouse has crafted one of the most unforgettable heroines in modern fiction. Nina Black is not the kind of woman you'd want to meet in a dark alley. But she's precisely the kind of character I...2015-04-291h 17