I once did a live coding series about learning a new language (Elm in this case) where I tried to show how to apply general knowledge of programming into learning a new language. I edited it heavily. It was still horrible :-) I quit after 5 episodes, I think. I also did a series (about 60) of Ruby TDD (which I called "One Pomodoro a Day") where I did one single pomodoro every day, unedited and recorded it with Asciinema (no audio). For me, this worked pretty well and I think it's quite watchable at 2-4x speed. However, it's still me fumbling about in my normal "Oh heck, that was a stupid idea, let's try X" way. I've shown it to a few people and it never got any traction, so I shelved it.
I'd really love to do another series, but I don't really like the idea of "And oh, BTW, here's one we prepared earlier". However, it seems to be what people want to watch (including myself!)
The other thing that I find a bit ironic is that I really want to share programming with people. I love it. However, I'm really embarrassed about my programming. It's never good enough -- and that's one of the things that I think makes me a better programmer. But it's one thing to share your code with yourself or your team and laugh about the stupid things you do. It's another to show it to the world. Even now, I'm loathe to share links to my series (though Google will help you find "One Pomodoro A Day" if you really want to find it ;-) ). It's like, "And now everybody will know that I'm a goof and I forget basic syntax and I look up basic library calls in the documentation and I make mistakes with TDD all the time and my design is sometimes really naive and..." well, you get the point. It's terrifying! But compelling at the same time.
I've always identified with being an artist and I think programming really is a performance art. I usually don't care what I program on -- it's the programming that matters to me. The fact that I often suck is disappointing, but I'm always thinking, "What's the point of writing this if nobody will ever read it"? I wonder if other people feel the same way...
I'd really love to do another series, but I don't really like the idea of "And oh, BTW, here's one we prepared earlier". However, it seems to be what people want to watch (including myself!)
The other thing that I find a bit ironic is that I really want to share programming with people. I love it. However, I'm really embarrassed about my programming. It's never good enough -- and that's one of the things that I think makes me a better programmer. But it's one thing to share your code with yourself or your team and laugh about the stupid things you do. It's another to show it to the world. Even now, I'm loathe to share links to my series (though Google will help you find "One Pomodoro A Day" if you really want to find it ;-) ). It's like, "And now everybody will know that I'm a goof and I forget basic syntax and I look up basic library calls in the documentation and I make mistakes with TDD all the time and my design is sometimes really naive and..." well, you get the point. It's terrifying! But compelling at the same time.
I've always identified with being an artist and I think programming really is a performance art. I usually don't care what I program on -- it's the programming that matters to me. The fact that I often suck is disappointing, but I'm always thinking, "What's the point of writing this if nobody will ever read it"? I wonder if other people feel the same way...