seansh

I do like YouTube video tutorials, but only as long as they're short. Watching Handmade Hero (by Casey Muratori) for example was a little frustrating: the videos are long, the codebase is large, things are moving fast, and I'd get lost.

I often wished I could pause the video to look up the definition of a function, or get an overview of when each file/line was edited and jump straight to that point.

Books/blogs are ok for explaining large codebases that already exist, but not for following a project as the code constantly changes. The book Crafting Interpreters did a really good job there, but that's really rare and hard to do.

I think CodeMic could be useful for this kind of long-form tutorials.

You may very well be right about the future. I won't argue. I just love the art of programming :)

The difference is that CodeMic records and replays inside your editor, not on the web. Currently, only VSCode is supported, but the output is independent of VSCode, making it easy to bring it to other editors and even the web.

Another difference is that CodeMic is not focused on web development or any particular stack. It's more general.

Think Asciinema, but for full coding sessions with audio, video, and images.

It makes following tutorials and understanding real codebases much more practical than watching a video.

Local first, and open source.

https://CodeMic.io

That's a good idea, I'll work on the overlapping video tracks.

I've been working on this for a little over 2 years and I'm very excited to share it with you and hear your thoughts.

    printf("And a segfault-free year ahead! \n");

I've been experimenting with this at work too. I created a separate internal git repo for the team with 4 never ending files:

- in-progress.md

- up-next.md

- for-future.md

- done.md

So far it's been easier to use than trello or any other project management platform.

Personally I use a single emacs org-mode file for my private work which is 30K lines as of today, but I'm not sure how other people's editors (vscode) handle big files like that.

While on laptop/desktop nothing beats txt (or md or org), it's just so uncomfortable using a text file like that on the phone and relying on dropbox or something.

And I get it, all the note taking apps on the phone have issues: not local first, proprietary, subscriptions, or no encryption, or a thousand features before making sure the full text search works even offline.

Last year I finally sat down and wrote my own PWA out of frustration [1]. There was a SHOW HN too [2]. Yes, shameless plug. There are only a handful of other people using it (and probably never more than that) but I really wrote it for myself and it's been such a relief the past year knowing I always have my notes whenever wherever and works exactly the way I want.

I probably spent <5h fixing a few issues in the past year. As far as I'm concerned, my problem is solved once and for all.

[1] https://unforget.computing-den.com/demo

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40645743

https://github.com/computing-den/CodeMic

Frameworks and runtimes though very similar technically, are different conceptually. Frameworks dictate a structure (a framwork) for how code is written (think React components) whereas runtimes are more concerned with letting you run the code and interface with the underlying platform (think libc).