Discussion on: Have you ever live streamed your coding process?

My gripes with watching live coding:

• Font size too small / too big. I should be able to read code without going fullscreen (basically 720p-ish)
• Throw your mechanical keyboard out the window. I don't want to hear clacks when I'm deciphering your message. Try using a directional microphone that doesn't pick up ambient noise.

More for conference talks/tutorial videos:

• Explain process. Copy/pasting snippets without context is a no-go. You don't have to hand-write and explain every function, but talk people through your thinking behind the process. That's why we tune in to you vs any other dev doing the same stack. It's easy to assume someone knows how something works, but it could be their first time even doing an npm install.
• Try to fit everything in one scroll. When you scroll up and down, it's easy to lose information.
• Waiting for stuff to install/compile. This needs to be like a cooking show - do the setup process to show how it's done, but have a product at every stage of development ready to quickly show. It sucks watching someone fumble with errors.
• Timestamps or short-form videos. I want to scrobble through the video, but it can be hard looking hundreds of frames of code. Having clear break points helps people (like breaking an article up into chapters).