Ask HN: Do you watch developers livestream?

1 points by zcesur 2 years ago | 3 comments

What type of content do you enjoy watching, is it mostly live coding or non coding?

Who's your favorite streamer?

Have you tried streaming yourself? What do you like/dislike about it? Any advice for folks who want to get started with streaming?

syndicatedjelly 2 years ago |

Videos have extremely low information density as it is, and one where someone is just typing/typoing code for an hour is a huge time sink. I would rather spend the hour reading a chapter or two from a primary source on the matter

stop50 2 years ago |

I mostly watch talks that talk rather high level about something. Talks with live coding are rather useless for me.

tshirttime 2 years ago | |

Talks with live coding are rather useless for me.

Utility is not the point. Vicarious coding is how 0X programmers justify their paycheck.