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> "I don’t understand the docs, anyone have a video?"

As an experienced dev, I hate this trend. I don't need my hand held for 10 minutes; I need to see three specific lines of config that may or may not be somewhere in the video.



I think this is similar for anyone who reads a lot of documentation: A 90 minute video explaining documentation and quickstarts can usually be read in 30 minutes and you don't have to constantly pause/restart/rewind.


A video can be helpful to me in some cases. Demonstrating how to set up a project or run a utility that scaffolds something. Or even some basic coding idioms. But these should be focused and short, i.e. 5-10 minutes. Show one thing, maybe a couple of examples of common scenarios, and that's it.


How can that not be done in a tutorial showing you the shell prompt and the files you need to modify?




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