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Re:Lessons from my first year of live coding on Twitch by thinkingemote on Saturday July 08, 2017 @02:24AM (#14724379)
There is a game developer on twitch that uses his VODs (video replays) as a versioning system as he doesn't use anything. "Wait, what and why did I do this? Lemme look at yesterday's vod".

It suprisingly works quite well and is more entertaining for the viewers to see what and how bugs get introduced.

Re:Lessons from my first year of live coding on Twitch by stctgion on Saturday July 08, 2017 @04:10AM (#14724613)
Sorry are there actually developers who don't use VCSs in 2017?
Re:Lessons from my first year of live coding on Twitch by tokenizerrr on Saturday July 08, 2017 @11:48AM (#14725791)
Yup. And it horrifies me every time.
Re:Lessons from my first year of live coding on Twitch by nine_k on Saturday July 08, 2017 @03:28AM (#14724537)
This is a nice circus trick. I wonder if it helps productivity, compared to a VCS.

And help it definitely can. For some people, pictures and motions are easier to remember and reason about, even in such a text-heavy area as writing code.

Re:Lessons from my first year of live coding on Twitch by tenpies on Saturday July 08, 2017 @08:47AM (#14725243)
If he's verbalizing his thought process it might actually be better than the average comments you get on code. Might actually have to play around with dictating what I'm thinking at key points in the process.
Re:Lessons from my first year of live coding on Twitch by mdmnk on Saturday July 08, 2017 @09:31AM (#14725341)
Push-to-talk helps a LOT. When I first started streaming I would just have a running stream of consciousness filled with lots of "uhhhhhh" and swears. Using push to talk helped me become more conscious of when I wanted to speak and since then I've gotten better at self editing and don't have to use push to talk as much.
Re:Lessons from my first year of live coding on Twitch by mahyarm on Saturday July 08, 2017 @01:21PM (#14726234)
I sounds like a useful super-blame, but I would still use a VCS. It's so easy!
Re:Lessons from my first year of live coding on Twitch by lotyrin on Saturday July 08, 2017 @05:34PM (#14727296)
I wonder if the VOD URIs are consistent enough that you could automate adding a link to the VOD+timestamp to your git commit descriptions...