Genuine question: What is the appeal of watching live coding? Who watches these? I'm watching code all day long, arguing about it, understanding it on my workplace, if I get home, there is no way I want to watch another guy live coding. Maybe doing my own thing when I'm free and not tied to a gazillion rules of how to do things.
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#32I would love to stream as I program, but I'm too afraid of accidentally showing a password or API key or something and pwning myself.
Here's a product idea: a screen recorder that understands password inputs and things like "API key" or "API secret" and blurs it automatically.
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#34Genuine question: What is the appeal of watching live coding? Who watches these? I'm watching code all day long, arguing about it, understanding it on my workplace, if I get home, there is no way I want to watch another guy live coding. Maybe doing my own thing when I'm free and not tied to a gazillion rules of how to do things.
From my experience. It is very beginner heavy.
I used to stream and my audience was students, beginners, junior engineers etc...
I had a few senior engineers watching when I streamed more advanced Devops, React, Python etc.. But in general, that was the division.
There is a big gap in software education from the tutorial to the point of dealing with real world and real life problems, people are attracted to seeing how you would solve things that come up in real life and that's where they get most of the value.
Viewers often view this during work, so they have some white-noise type from the keyboard typing and voice.
The main point in streaming and watching streams in my mind is the sense of community, people ask A LOT of questions and get a ton of value from it (depends on the streamer)
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#35Genuine question: What is the appeal of watching live coding? Who watches these? I'm watching code all day long, arguing about it, understanding it on my workplace, if I get home, there is no way I want to watch another guy live coding. Maybe doing my own thing when I'm free and not tied to a gazillion rules of how to do things.
I think the appeal is the same for watching any other high performance. Specifically, it can be entertaining to see how others do things, and there is potential for you to pick up some useful knowledge in the form of a problem solving technique, or maybe a workflow you haven’t considered.
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#36Genuine question: What is the appeal of watching live coding? Who watches these? I'm watching code all day long, arguing about it, understanding it on my workplace, if I get home, there is no way I want to watch another guy live coding. Maybe doing my own thing when I'm free and not tied to a gazillion rules of how to do things.
Not everyone interested in programming works as a programmer, and not everyone who works as a programmer has good peers to learn from! I have very occasionally watched some live streamed coding, usually because I’m interested in learning more about a particular technology or a particular person’s approach to solving problems.
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#37Genuine question: What is the appeal of watching live coding? Who watches these? I'm watching code all day long, arguing about it, understanding it on my workplace, if I get home, there is no way I want to watch another guy live coding. Maybe doing my own thing when I'm free and not tied to a gazillion rules of how to do things.
I find it strangely appealing. A football player may train all day long but that doesn't mean he wouldn't like to see a game on TV. But I may be strange. I find that I enjoy programming more when I'm playing a coding podcast in the background, for some reason. Perhaps because coding is a lonely activity.
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#38I have a real suspicion towards anything that's featured on ProductHunt. I hope that this post's upvotes are genuine!
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#39I streamed on Twitch for a while [1], the change they made with the categories now officially kills off programming streams and show that they don't really care about it. Curating streams this way is very useful and looks good. [1] https://www.twitch.tv/kensodev
Heya! I just wanted to say thanks for your streams. I haven't been watching streams in general lately due to life being much busier, but yours in particular were super interesting and I learned a ton!
Thank you!
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#40Genuine question: What is the appeal of watching live coding? Who watches these? I'm watching code all day long, arguing about it, understanding it on my workplace, if I get home, there is no way I want to watch another guy live coding. Maybe doing my own thing when I'm free and not tied to a gazillion rules of how to do things.
I sometimes throw a quieter stream on in the background. It makes me feel like I'm in an office space when I'm coding by myself which sometimes helps me focus.
I never usually have a stream on for more than 10-15 minutes at a time, but other than the nice sound of keyboard typing I also enjoy trying to be helpful or just poking in and seeing what other people are working on.