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Ask HN: Screencasts of skilled developers?

30 points by dbtc 12y ago

Tutorials and docs are fantastic and definitely important, but I think watching highly skilled/experienced software developers doing what they do might fill in a lot of missing pieces for anyone who is no longer a beginner and not yet at the very top of their craft (that's probably most people who get paid to write code) For example, Gary Bernhardt's Destroy All Software screencasts are really helpful for me, I learn a ton just watching how he uses is tools https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts What other screencasts/videos are like this? Programming language and tools don't matter to me, in fact I think more variation would be better - to see how different tools are used.

dbtc 12y ago
Answering my own question here, but I'd still love to see anyone else's suggestions! This seems like a good compilation: http://devblog.avdi.org/2013/06/21/a-list-of-programming-screencast-series/ http://devblog.avdi.org/2013/06/21/a-list-of-programming-scr...
lennexz 12y ago
You should check out Laracasts https://laracasts.com/ https://laracasts.com/ . Its screencasts for laravel php. I think its awesome, has both beginner and advanced stuff on it. Check it out
elwell 12y ago
I agree. I imagine I could learn quite a bit just from sitting behind a Google/Facebook engineer for a few hours.
corysama 12y ago
http://handmadehero.org/ http://handmadehero.org/ is a currently active series where an experienced professional game developer is simultaneously coding and explaining the creation of an entire commercial game completely from scratch (without the use of middleware or libraries beyond OS vendor standard libs). The explanation is aimed at beginners and is very nicely delivered. https://www.youtube.com/user/handmadeheroarchive https://www.youtube.com/user/handmadeheroarchive
eip 12y ago
What would you be interested in seeing? I can't make any screen casts of work projects but I can do them for personal stuff.
- tomcam 12y ago
  Soup to nuts deployment issues. When to use Docker. What to monitor, when. What logs to look at. How to balance security against convenience. How to use Fabric to deploy a Python app. How to completely script server deployment of web apps. How to turn a toy database-backed app written in Python into production code, and exactly what shims, insecure development features, etc. should be removed.
- dbtc 12y ago
  What tools/languages are you good at?
  - eip 12y ago
    Java/Scala, Postgres, Cassandra, Redis, Titan, Hazelcast, RabbitMQ, most Spring libraries, Wicket, almost all features of AWS, and more.
allendoerfer 12y ago
I generally just watch YouTube videos of conference talks. When somebody says something interesting i look what else they have done in the past. If somebody is at an above expert level at a complex tool, he or she often has a history of publications about that topic. There are some channels [0,1], which post them. Tech companies often have developer channels, too. I find Google's to market their own products to much. Facebook tells quite interesting war stories. Finding videos is not really the problem, because they are generally 30 to 60 minutes long. When you bookmark them or add them to your watch-later list, they quickly add up. I have about 200 of them waiting to be watched. [0] https://www.youtube.com/user/Confreaks https://www.youtube.com/user/Confreaks [1] https://www.youtube.com/user/MarakanaTechTV https://www.youtube.com/user/MarakanaTechTV
hackerboos 12y ago
The Play by Play series on Pluralsight (previously Peep Code) has pair sessions with some very skilled developers.
sreenadh 12y ago
A mix of tech & normal stuff: http://www.youtube.com/user/derekbanas/playlists http://www.youtube.com/user/derekbanas/playlists http://www.screencasts.org/ http://www.screencasts.org/ http://www.youtube.com/user/JetBrainsTV http://www.youtube.com/user/JetBrainsTV http://www.youtube.com/user/elithecomputerguy http://www.youtube.com/user/elithecomputerguy
lllllll 12y ago
Great thread! Being more of a backend coder rather than frontend, I lately started consolidating my frontend skills with new projects. Very SASS focused ( I love it!). These channels gave me some really nice ideas, I recommend to have a look at them! https://www.youtube.com/user/DevTipsForDesigners/videos https://www.youtube.com/user/DevTipsForDesigners/videos https://www.youtube.com/user/phpacademy/videos https://www.youtube.com/user/phpacademy/videos
whichdan 12y ago
Why would I take a screencast of myself reading HackerNews?
avinassh 12y ago
I like Treehouse's YouTube podcast called The Treehouse Show: https://youtube.com/user/gotreehouse https://youtube.com/user/gotreehouse
arb99 12y ago
https://laracasts.com/ https://laracasts.com/