Supper Club × val.town with Steve Krouse

In 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 does val.town inspire people? 20:26 How do you prevent people abusing val.town? 24:57 What’s the UI story for snippets on val.town? 27:31 Do you plan to support express? 29:03 What’s the tech stack behind the front end of val.town? 30:35 What’s the tech stack for the back end of val.town? 34:37 How do you measure for pricing? 37:07 Who is using val.town? 42:00 What’s your methodology for teaching kids to code? 47:44 Supper Club questions GitHub - pomdtr/sunbeam: Generate powerful TUIs from simple scripts written in any language. Deno — A modern runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript A Small Matter of Programming The Unison language CodeMirror A Small Matter of Programming: Perspectives on End User Computing Stripe Press — Ideas for progress pomdtr/sunbeam: Generate powerful TUIs from simple scripts written in any language. Seymour Papert woofjs.com Bret Victor Welcome | Future of Coding Tom MacWright (@tmcw) 55:54 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× SwitchBot Wi-Fi Smart Lock Shameless Plugs Val Town Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets Wes Bos on Bluesky Scott on Bluesky Syntax on Bluesky