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Show HN: A list of programmers coding live
- iamleppert 8y agoCan you post your chaturbate profile instead?
- aulrich 8y agoHeya! I’m Armin, I built shipstreams.com. Inspired by Pat Walls building "You Don't Need WordPress" live on Twitch in 24h, I created this list of makers streaming their work! After many hours on Twitch I found many cool people doing so much great work. There is always to learn something while looking over someone's shoulder :) If you want to add yourself and build with us, you can use the Submit Form. - I’m especially on the lookout for more streaming women makers! In the future, I'd like to add Youtube-Code-Steamers as well, or maybe you know of other Websites who host some Makers? Could see shipstreams as an aggregator for all of them :) Cheers and see you Live, Armin Links: Telegram Notification Channel: http://t.me/shipstreams http://t.me/shipstreams Submit Form: https://shipstreams.com/submit https://shipstreams.com/submit Github: https://github.com/arminulrich/shipstreams.com https://github.com/arminulrich/shipstreams.com (Laravel + Vue.js - hacked together in 24 hours )
- AlmostAsian 8y agoThis can be done in a couple days and you come here and present this crap?
- maerF0x0 8y agoFeature request: Ability to search by technologies being used. eg: Golang, redis, aws, AI, etc.
- Glench 8y agoHi Armin, looks great! I can see this being a valuable resource for people that want to understand how great coders do their thing. I'd suggest adding Jonathan Blow, an indie game developer of Braid and The Witness who designs and builds his own games and game engines on stream: https://twitch.tv/naysayer88 https://twitch.tv/naysayer88 Also, I notice there are very few female developers on your list. I think it would be of great service to the programming community to find some women and add them to your list.
- aulrich 8y agoyou’re right! I also wrote that in my comment above! I already reached out to women maker groups and hope to add more to my list soon :)
- jacquesm 8y ago> I think it would be of great service to the programming community to find some women and add them to your list. Make sure you ask them first if that is ok. Not all attention is welcome attention.
- pythonick 8y agoAmazing. In sort of a weird mirrored telepresent universe, I clicked on one of the Shipstreams to find the maker checking Hackernews and "shipping live" on Shipstreams. https://ibb.co/hN5b6z https://ibb.co/hN5b6z
- cercatrova 8y agoGood stuff, I remember seeing Walls' tweet [0], and watching this site go up on Product Hunt soon after he finished. I do wonder though, is this a more focused version of Twitch's Programming directory [1]? [0] https://twitter.com/thepatwalls/status/1043242997050167302 https://twitter.com/thepatwalls/status/1043242997050167302 [1] https://www.twitch.tv/directory/game/Programming https://www.twitch.tv/directory/game/Programming
- aulrich 8y agoYeah I keep this list curated, so I confirm these people are doing mostly coding streams - and in future steps, I'll add more and more platforms!
- graphememes 8y ago-snip-
- aulrich 8y agoeveryone was asked or submitted themselves via the form :)
- graphememes 8y agoNice, good human in action 8)
- fenwick67 8y agoIf they're literally all on Twitch, why would I use this site instead of just searching for software devs via Twitch directly?
- aulrich 8y agoI keep this list curated, so I confirm these people are doing mostly coding streams - and in future steps, I'd like to add more platforms :) I started out last week with like five people, and only twitch people kept writing me so far :)
- SoulMan 8y agoIt's a good discovery tool. I actually searched for devs doing live coding in twitch few days back but barely found anyone.
- ozim 8y agoI find list useful, I was trying to find such streams earlier with no luck. Unfortunately I only found 2 dead accounts by searching for programming, maybe it is just I am not that familiar with twitch.
- usea 8y agoHere [0] is a list of currently live streams who have categorized their stream as programming. At time of writing, there's about 50 live streams. [0]: https://www.twitch.tv/directory/game/Programming https://www.twitch.tv/directory/game/Programming
- gitgud 8y agoSame reason we use link sharing sites like Hacker News, and Reddit... You don't need to search.
- SoulMan 8y agoWonderful, This is exactly what I was looking for a few days ago and someone already did it. twitch is primarily a place for gamers but good to see programmers. I follow Stephen Wolfram and Holden Karau 's live coding and code reviews.
- Animistic 8y agoNever thought about this, but this could be super useful. There should be something like Twitch except full of people actually doing useful stuff instead of just wasting all day every day on video games.
- jonheller 8y agoNice to see some manual curation in this space. For some reason, I've found Twitch's categorization of this type of stream to be challenging to find (i.e. it's under creative, but hard to filter from the rest of that category unless people specifically tag it things like development or programming).
- reificator 8y agoI could be wrong, as I don't often browse Twitch, but you might want to take another look. From what I heard they've killed IRL and Creative and replaced them with more segmented categories.
- aulrich 8y agothank you! yeah its really hard to find a cool thing. (but I'm generally bad at navigating twitch haha)
- xaranke 8y agoLooks good, but not a big fan of the autoplaying video. If I could click a button and start playing the video instead that would be great.
- frfl 8y agoYou may be interested in a global solution Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/disable-autoplay/?src=search https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/disable-autop... Chrome: I don't know any good one off the top of my head, sorry
- avitzurel 8y agoI 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 https://www.twitch.tv/kensodev
- aulrich 8y agothank you! .. may I add your channel to the list? :)
- badtuple 8y agoHeya! 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!
- avitzurel 8y agoThank you!
- highace 8y agoI 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.
- ericintheloft2 8y agoHere's a product idea: a screen recorder that understands password inputs and things like "API key" or "API secret" and blurs it automatically.
- jolmg 8y agoThere's also the possibility of swatting[1]. There are videos online of people streaming when suddenly their home is broken into by officers, rifle in hand, yelling at them to get on the ground. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatting
- jaequery 8y agoanyone know what happened to livecoding.tv?
- avitzurel 8y agoThey rebranded to https://www.liveedu.tv/ https://www.liveedu.tv/ and made a lot of product changes that make it unusable. They used to have a good community going, I streamed there for a little while but everyone seems to shift to Twitch/Youtube.
- owenconti 8y agoI used to stream there as well. Do you know if there's another coding-focused streaming platform?
- Reedx 8y agoA disaster happened: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10486476 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10486476
- swlkr 8y agoThis is cool, twitch and youtube are both great platforms to stream. It’s funny there was a new platform linked here on HN I think a few years ago, and it did pretty well, I streamed on it for a while, but it never got the traction they wanted so they pivoted to live edu or something. This getting to the front page shows me that it’s better to start very small and work from there if you want to make a new community. I’m not saying that shipstreams is going to host their own streams one day, independent of twitch or youtube, but given a good start like this, it’s at least a possibility. Is this embrace, extend, extinguish? Regardless, congrats on shipping!
- Walkman 8y agoGenuine 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.
- avitzurel 8y agoFrom 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)
- bananabiscuit 8y agoI 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.
- Walkman 8y agoBut you can do that by reading code of Open Source projects, which is more effective IMO.
- jolmg 8y agoNo... For example, let's imagine a developer needs to find the source of a bug on a big rails app. All he knows of the bug is that a certain line of logged SQL should be near the location. He knows how to trigger the bug. A simple method call triggers a myriad of unknown things, one of which is where the bug lies. He gets the idea to write a method that takes a regex and a block and temporarily override the logging method while the block executes so that it outputs a backtrace when logging a line that matches the given regex. The method is called, the backtrace is output, and the bug is found. Development ideas and methodologies like that don't appear in code.
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- the_other_guy 8y agoI have a real suspicion towards anything that's featured on ProductHunt. I hope that this post's upvotes are genuine!
- frfl 8y agomay I ask why?
- bmc7505 8y agoRachael Tatman at Kaggle does a livestream on Twitch every Friday: https://www.twitch.tv/rctatman https://www.twitch.tv/rctatman
- IdiotMoron 8y agoHere's another site of curated programming centered streams: https://belly.io/programming https://belly.io/programming
- wpdev_63 8y agodevstream.io does this also. Maybe not as polished though.
- rmbeard 8y agoGreat idea, but none of the livestreaming coders I follow on Twitch are listed. Stephen Wolfram is a notable omission but there are some other great livestreams on Twtich creative.