Writing seems to be the single best thing you can do as a professional, in other areas as well. I know people who were hired because of a single Medium article that got a lot of traction (and made that person sort of a reference in the industry). What do you think about videos? I see lifestyle channels for devs and tech workers taking off but do you think there's a chance the same might happen for more technical chan…
Forced pace is a huge problem for videos. If you encounter a paragraph that you already know all about in an article, you can skip it. If you encounter a section of a video like that, it's harder to skip so I'll end up trying to sit through it, getting bored, then distracted, and then who knows what I'll miss. The 'killer feature' of writing is the ability to self-pace. To me that makes them orders of magnitude more…
Re: Show HN: Writing for Software Developers
#61The lack of Ctrl-F too! Although maybe that’s a fixable problem with transcribed videos