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Re: My Twitch Live Coding Setup

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Post by nstart »

stale2002 wrote: post #49
nstart wrote: post #43

Lots of people discussing the pros and cons of livecoding. I'd like to share some alternate thoughts if possible. I believe that there is a niche interested in watching and/or participating in livecoding and for them they do it because they can be productive and have a good time. So I took livecoding pretty seriously for a while. I recognise that Noopkat is a pro at this and is one of the most consistent live coders…

> Coding hasn't lent itself well to "liveness". > what project is the person working on? - what "feature" are they working on? - what are they trying to achieve at this very moment? I used to do a bunch of livecoding myself, actually. I agree with you that most programming does not lend itself too well to livecoding. But there is one niche that I believe lends itself extremely well to live coding. This niche being wh…

That is am excellent story! Thanks for sharing :). I used to do things like ruby koans and Euler project stuff back when I was live streaming. You make a really good point about how the shorter stuff lends itself well to live streaming.

Re: My Twitch Live Coding Setup

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Post by pablasso »

stale2002 wrote: post #49
nstart wrote: post #43

Lots of people discussing the pros and cons of livecoding. I'd like to share some alternate thoughts if possible. I believe that there is a niche interested in watching and/or participating in livecoding and for them they do it because they can be productive and have a good time. So I took livecoding pretty seriously for a while. I recognise that Noopkat is a pro at this and is one of the most consistent live coders…

> Coding hasn't lent itself well to "liveness". > what project is the person working on? - what "feature" are they working on? - what are they trying to achieve at this very moment? I used to do a bunch of livecoding myself, actually. I agree with you that most programming does not lend itself too well to livecoding. But there is one niche that I believe lends itself extremely well to live coding. This niche being wh…

Can you share a link to your steam?

Re: My Twitch Live Coding Setup

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Post by emerongi »

nstart wrote: post #43

Lots of people discussing the pros and cons of livecoding. I'd like to share some alternate thoughts if possible. I believe that there is a niche interested in watching and/or participating in livecoding and for them they do it because they can be productive and have a good time. So I took livecoding pretty seriously for a while. I recognise that Noopkat is a pro at this and is one of the most consistent live coders…

Twitch has in general dropped the ball by not trying to make streams more interactive. I think we should be past the stage where we are using just "dumb" clients.

Re: My Twitch Live Coding Setup

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Post by stale2002 »

pablasso wrote: post #52
stale2002 wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Coding hasn't lent itself well to "liveness". > what project is the person working on? - what "feature" are they working on? - what are they trying to achieve at this very moment? I used to do a bunch of livecoding myself, actually. I agree with you that most programming does not lend itself too well to livecoding. But there is one niche that I believe lends itself extremely well to live coding. This niche being wh…

Can you share a link to your steam?

Sure, I have a bunch of videos saved here:

https://www.twitch.tv/stale2000/videos

Re: My Twitch Live Coding Setup

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Post by hiimshort »

emerongi wrote: post #53
nstart wrote: post #43

Lots of people discussing the pros and cons of livecoding. I'd like to share some alternate thoughts if possible. I believe that there is a niche interested in watching and/or participating in livecoding and for them they do it because they can be productive and have a good time. So I took livecoding pretty seriously for a while. I recognise that Noopkat is a pro at this and is one of the most consistent live coders…

Twitch has in general dropped the ball by not trying to make streams more interactive. I think we should be past the stage where we are using just "dumb" clients.

Would Twitch extensions fill this void? From what I know of the platform, it would let you implement interactive features.

Mixer has done interesting things in regards to interactive livestreaming. It seems like progress is being made towards giving users more ways to interact, it's just taking a while. Perhaps because we're not sure _what_ to make interactive?

Re: My Twitch Live Coding Setup

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Post by dom96 »

I wonder how well her MacBook performs. Whenever I try to stream on mine it quickly spins up its fan which is really distracting, does anyone have any tips to avoid that?

Re: My Twitch Live Coding Setup

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Post by the_pwner224 »

OptionX wrote: post #37

I've never understood the idea of using a 60% tenkeyless when your job requires you to type a lot. Even if you go full-size it dosen't take that much more space and you save you fingers the extra work for number and function keys.

> Even if you go full-size it dosen't take that much more space and you save you fingers the extra work for number and function keys.

If I go back to full size, it takes enough space that my shoulder hurts from the off-center kb/mouse, and it makes my fingers work harder and slower to reach the numpad and function keys.

I used to have a full size mechanical, switched to a 60%, and more recently an asymmetrical split 5x6+5x7 keyboard. The two small ones run a fully programmable FOSS firmware (QMK), so I can get keybindings that help me work faster.

The F-keys are used rarely enough that it's fine having them replace the top number row on the 2nd layer. I have a button to toggle to the 2nd layer, and two buttons that activate the second layer when held (one where the Fn key is on laptops, another where Enter is). On the 2nd layer, HJKL are arrow keys, WASD + QE + RF are also arrow keys + home/end + pgup/pgdn. The 2nd layer also has volume+media keys, print screen, and some other stuff on it. So I can navigate around the computer much faster since my hands never ever leave the home row.

The split keyboard is ortholinear (keys arranged in a grid, not staggered). I've had Caps Lock replaced with Escape for a long time and it's way superior to having escape above the tilde. There's no spacebar, all keys use 1 unit on the grid. My left thumb has space and backspace right below it; the right thumb has space and enter below it. So esc+bksp+enter no longer strain the pinkies, and they are faster to use. Aside from that it's pretty much a normal keyboard; however the split does make it a fair bit more ergonomic - both halves can be moved around and tilted.

40% keyboards without the number row on top, on the other hand... I don't know how anyone can use those for real work.

Also, I haven't needed to do it, but you can place on your second layer (or dedicate a key just for it) a key that will take you to the third layer. Put a numpad + mouse keys + F-keys on the 3rd layer and it's perfect for data entry. Or numpad + WASD + arrow keys, so you can play the occasional game which requires both WASD and arrows.

Re: My Twitch Live Coding Setup

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Post by mxscho »

tastroder wrote: post #47
mxscho wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Double-checked: Twitch does say transcoding is "as available" for non-partners It's mainly done for non-partnered channels with high view count (at latest after requesting it manually).

If they had it on smaller streams, there also seems to be some mechanism that kicks in when a stream restarts multiple times (my guess would be some heuristic thinks there might be problems and tries to be helpful).

Also, like you said, enabling transcoding needs a stream restart right now. Guess this could be improved.

Maybe the system's heuristic just doesn't really remember sessions after some hours have passed so it needs to see a high view count again before turning on transcoding (after the restart).

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