My Twitch Live Coding Setup

Post by mxscho » Mon, Feb 25, 2019, 3:32 AM UTC

minimaxir wrote: post #8

xpaulbettsx wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's zero reason to run 60FPS for a text editor, turn it down to 15FPS and take that extra bandwidth and put it into quality - if you're worried about the YouTube quality after-the-fact, you can run two encoding jobs though it's a bit rough on your CPU

Double-checked: Twitch does say transcoding is "as available" for non-partners: https://help.twitch.tv/customer/portal/articles/2785927-join... Hmm, I could have sworn that I had the options available when watching smaller channels, but they may have been Partners. > There's zero reason to run 60FPS for a text editor It does make things surprisingly more fluid, especially for window navigation/scrolling (although you…

Post by xpaulbettsx » Mon, Feb 25, 2019, 3:46 AM UTC

minimaxir wrote: post #8

xpaulbettsx wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's zero reason to run 60FPS for a text editor, turn it down to 15FPS and take that extra bandwidth and put it into quality - if you're worried about the YouTube quality after-the-fact, you can run two encoding jobs though it's a bit rough on your CPU

Double-checked: Twitch does say transcoding is "as available" for non-partners: https://help.twitch.tv/customer/portal/articles/2785927-join... Hmm, I could have sworn that I had the options available when watching smaller channels, but they may have been Partners. > There's zero reason to run 60FPS for a text editor It does make things surprisingly more fluid, especially for window navigation/scrolling (although you…

Post by hbrundage » Mon, Feb 25, 2019, 4:05 AM UTC

keyle wrote: post #4

I did live coding on twitch back a year or so ago, for about 2-3 months. It was nice to get a bit of company working from home on my own sabatical (aka. financial dive) year. Overall though I don't think it's worth it. You get the usual lurkers that come say hi, and then a bunch of drop-ins that have language questions, stackoverflow type questions, or start rambling about technological choices which eventually distr…

Post by tehlike » Mon, Feb 25, 2019, 4:15 AM UTC

wheelerwj wrote: post #16

keyle wrote: post #4

I did live coding on twitch back a year or so ago, for about 2-3 months. It was nice to get a bit of company working from home on my own sabatical (aka. financial dive) year. Overall though I don't think it's worth it. You get the usual lurkers that come say hi, and then a bunch of drop-ins that have language questions, stackoverflow type questions, or start rambling about technological choices which eventually distr…

what do you mean?

Post by tomschlick » Mon, Feb 25, 2019, 4:26 AM UTC

hbrundage wrote: post #15

keyle wrote: post #4

I did live coding on twitch back a year or so ago, for about 2-3 months. It was nice to get a bit of company working from home on my own sabatical (aka. financial dive) year. Overall though I don't think it's worth it. You get the usual lurkers that come say hi, and then a bunch of drop-ins that have language questions, stackoverflow type questions, or start rambling about technological choices which eventually distr…

What % kind of hit do you think you take? I think live streaming the development process might be a really cool way to build a community around a developer-focused tool I might build. Imagine if DHH had streamed the process of creating Rails before it was Rails. I think you're totally right that there's tension between being entertaining and being productive, but do you think one could it well enough that ancillary b…