Supper Club × val.town with Steve Krouse

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, News, Technology

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

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

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	I sure hope you're hungry!
0:02.4	Who I'm starving?
0:04.2	Wash those hands, pull up a chair, and secure that feedback.
0:08.1	Because it's time to listen to Scott Tolinsky and Wes Boss' attempt to use human language to converse with
0:14.2	and pick the brains of other developers.
0:16.8	I thought there was gonna be food.
0:18.7	So buckle up and grab that old f***ing handle.
0:21.8	Because this ride is going to get wild.
0:25.6	This is The Syntax Summer Club.
0:36.6	Welcome to Syntax.
0:38.6	Today we have Steve Krause on today from a lot of things,
0:43.8	but specifically we're having a month to talk about this project he has called Val.town.
0:49.1	Which, uh, quite honestly, is...
0:52.6	I checked this out a couple months ago,
0:54.4	or not a couple weeks ago, I was like, oh, this is Syntax cool.
0:57.4	And then it popped up again, somebody tagged me in a tweet.
1:02.4	And I was like, all right, I'll check this out.
1:04.4	And I went through it, and I used it.
1:07.9	And I was like, this is really cool.
1:10.9	Like, this is really neat.
1:12.4	I have not seen anything like this in a while.
1:16.9	And as somebody who writes lots of little scripts and lots of little demos and stuff like that,
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Wes Bos, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Wes Bos and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.