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Lessons from my first year of live coding on Twitch

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Re: Lessons from my first year of live coding on Twitch

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Post by noopkat »

glhaynes wrote: post #89
noopkat wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> How do you make OBS switch to showing your browser when you open it up to look at docs? Do you manually toggle it in OBS or is there a tool available for this? I keep things as lazy as possible, and just stream my entire desktop (with slight crop) instead of a specific window. I have my browser window lined up and positioned on the left so the webcam doesn't cover up anything. I then can just CMD-tab to it quickly.…

Forgive my focusing on the unimportant things, but: what’s the slight crop for?

Sorry that probably sounded confusing - I was being pedantic in my description. In the article I explain that I want private areas on my desktop for watching chat and alert activity hence the crop of my desktop :)

Re: Lessons from my first year of live coding on Twitch

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Post by glhaynes »

noopkat wrote: post #91
glhaynes wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Forgive my focusing on the unimportant things, but: what’s the slight crop for?

Sorry that probably sounded confusing - I was being pedantic in my description. In the article I explain that I want private areas on my desktop for watching chat and alert activity hence the crop of my desktop :)

Oh yeah I see that now. I was thinking that was all done in the scene devoted to privacy but that makes sense. Thanks!

Re: Lessons from my first year of live coding on Twitch

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Post by bigtunacan »

artosispylon wrote: post #54
stale2002 wrote: post #49

Hey! I do this too on twitch. I mostly stream myself doing algorithms though. Basically I do the Google Style interview questions, and almost run my stream like I am doing an actual interview. https://www.twitch.tv/stale2000/videos/all The reality of the livecoding scene is that most "real life" coding is actually pretty boring to watch. In order to be actually interesting, you have to be talking and explaining what…

Watched your most recent algorithm video. Good quality stream! P.S.: Sieve rhymes with live, as in "I live in California." :)

But sieve also doesn't rhyme with live, as in "Live from California".

Re: Lessons from my first year of live coding on Twitch

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Post by alexashka »

Suggestion: include a link to your twitch channel, in the first paragraph of this blog post.

It's good advertisement, and it lets people have a look at the results of your streaming. For all we know, your stream could be great, good, bad or not at all. We don't know.

Without that information, it is hard to know what to make of the rest of the blog post.

Re: Lessons from my first year of live coding on Twitch

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Post by wcummings »

bjterry wrote: post #53
rctay89 wrote: post #48

I wonder if you could include all keystrokes like Ctrl-x in the screencast, maybe even a timeline of the keystrokes; I imagined it to be "running" along the screen like in Guitar hero. Nevertheless this is a great effort in distributing latent/implicit knowledge, which I think coding to be heavy on; for example, how would a terminal user know that Ctrl-R is reverse-search? (don't get me started on finding out about g…

Most people who create Blender (a 3D graphics app) video tutorials use an addon that includes the keys they are typing on the screen. It is very useful, and would be interesting especially for emacs or Vim users who use a lot of bindings.

I can't stand video howtos. You can't skim a video, or search the text of a video. They seem especially irrelevant in the world of text editors. I'd rather read the keystrokes on a doc/webpage. You could even open it right in the editor.

Re: Lessons from my first year of live coding on Twitch

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Post by noopkat »

alexashka wrote: post #94

Suggestion: include a link to your twitch channel, in the first paragraph of this blog post. It's good advertisement, and it lets people have a look at the results of your streaming. For all we know, your stream could be great, good, bad or not at all. We don't know. Without that information, it is hard to know what to make of the rest of the blog post.

Thanks for the advice! I went ahead and did just that.

Re: Lessons from my first year of live coding on Twitch

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Post by lotyrin »

mahyarm wrote: post #90
thinkingemote wrote: post #58

There is a game developer on twitch that uses his VODs (video replays) as a versioning system as he doesn't use anything. "Wait, what and why did I do this? Lemme look at yesterday's vod". It suprisingly works quite well and is more entertaining for the viewers to see what and how bugs get introduced.

I sounds like a useful super-blame, but I would still use a VCS. It's so easy!

I wonder if the VOD URIs are consistent enough that you could automate adding a link to the VOD+timestamp to your git commit descriptions...

Re: Lessons from my first year of live coding on Twitch

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Post by rmason »

Been learning the serverless framework and found a couple of videos on YouTube from people live coding on Twitch.tv.

I'm not a gamer and would have never thought to look on there for tutorials. Their search isn't very good and I've found YouTube is the best place to find out who is using Twitch. There are guys with a thousand followers who don't show up on search! Still a very valuable outlet that I bet most coders don't know about.

Re: Lessons from my first year of live coding on Twitch

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Post by Semaphor »

bjterry wrote: post #53
rctay89 wrote: post #48

I wonder if you could include all keystrokes like Ctrl-x in the screencast, maybe even a timeline of the keystrokes; I imagined it to be "running" along the screen like in Guitar hero. Nevertheless this is a great effort in distributing latent/implicit knowledge, which I think coding to be heavy on; for example, how would a terminal user know that Ctrl-R is reverse-search? (don't get me started on finding out about g…

Most people who create Blender (a 3D graphics app) video tutorials use an addon that includes the keys they are typing on the screen. It is very useful, and would be interesting especially for emacs or Vim users who use a lot of bindings.

Intellij has such a plug-in as well
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