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2 is related to 1 - there are credentials hard coded all over the place.
Clean up your code before you start. Maybe this exercise will make you a better programmer.
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.
Sorry are there actually developers who don't use VCSs in 2017?
wow, author here. I didn't post this to Hacker News (I didn't even have an account on here until 30 seconds ago), but thanks for the thoughtful comments everyone! Is it weird if I address some of the questions in here or is that odd etiquette? :)
Thanks for writing the article! It was really helpful for me. One technical question: 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 was doing JS development using OBS and couldn't find a good way to make the IDE show when it had focus and make the Browser automatically show when it has focus. So I was f…
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.
The benefit of this is that folks also see your development flow in a more realistic way, as switching scenes can look slick but departs from how you normally work.
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Thanks for writing the article! It was really helpful for me. One technical question: 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 was doing JS development using OBS and couldn't find a good way to make the IDE show when it had focus and make the Browser automatically show when it has focus. So I was f…
You can either use hotkeys for scene switching, or use screen capture instead of window capture. If you regularly forget to switch scenes screen capture is probably the way to go, just keep in mind that viewers will be able to see anything that shows up in the capture area.
It would appear that the author is trying to post as noopkat and has been declared dead (new account?)
New accounts that post a lot right away sometimes get their comments killed automatically, yeah. You can vouch for a comment to resurrect it by clicking on the "2 hours ago" or whatever (to get to the comment's page), then clicking "vouch". (Vouching requires 30 karma, according to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14326108 .)
Nice writeup. I think the people who are good at twitch streaming are charismatic and/or funny. Being entertaining is awesome, but isn't necessarily the same as being good at reasoning through problems or engineering good software. As a watcher of such streams, be they game session I wonder how people don't see something and go crazy because they can't actively participate - the author does mention that some people w…
I suppose that makes the twitch stream an important learning experience for both parties. You can participate in the chat and make suggestions, ask questions. If you are driven mad by someone doing something differently or making a mistake well then it might be healthy to try and overcome that.
I've streamed myself programming on Twitch, and can echo some additional knowledge in addition to what's shared in the article: Don't expect anyone from Twitch to randomly discover your stream and have any idea what you're doing. Programming anything that isn't a video game on Twitch will be totally unfamiliar to their primary demographics. That said, use Twitter or something else to BRING YOUR OWN AUDIENCE. Be prepa…
> a joint channel of shared programming content and have many different programmers participating I like that idea a lot -- have been wanting to team up with other devs on live twitch projects. If anyone is interested in getting this set up be sure to PM me -- I have 14 years of dev experience in a plethora of languages: - Python - C# - Ruby - PHP - Javascript (front and backend) - HTML / CSS
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…
I imagine one has to be extra careful to avoid spilling passwords and other secrets then. Probably best when it can be avoided by some technical means like ssh keys for git, etc.
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Thanks for writing the article! It was really helpful for me. One technical question: 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 was doing JS development using OBS and couldn't find a good way to make the IDE show when it had focus and make the Browser automatically show when it has focus. So I was f…
> 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.…
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.