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+1. I do a lot of videos, especially now that COVID has put the kibosh on in-person conferences and everything is pre-recorded. I usually need 3 takes to do a d
by hodgesrm 6y ago
+1. I do a lot of videos, especially now that COVID has put the kibosh on in-person conferences and everything is pre-recorded. I usually need 3 takes to do a decent talk recording and that assumes substantial prep to lay out the story line. Anything less is a meandering mess.
It's way easier just to write a decent README.md.
- tomatohs 6y agoWhy not both?
- eru 6y agoWhat does the video add that the readme doesn't do?
- jraph 6y agoSegues to sponsors and screamed content as attempts to keep your attention and to prevent you from falling asleep.
- technoplato 6y agoHonest response: Wonderful documentation is hard to beat from my learning perspective, but I find that level of quality is more rare. Therefore, I learn better by watching something materialize on video at ~3x speed and often without any speaking. I think it simply boils down to my level of trust that this person didn’t accidentally omit anything from their article or blog post or whatever and what I see on the screen is what I get. Now, that doesn’t fix when tools change etc, but videos instill a higher level of trust that, if I follow these steps, I will produce this output.