Don’t. Just don’t.
Go on a walk. Feed your dog. Maybe read a fucking book. Do literally anything else.
I get people that make tutorials for “content” even if they suck at their job, but I CANNOT get over video tutorials where someone gets completely lost and doesn’t cut it out of the video.
Anyways we’ll go here-oh there’s an error. Uhm. Maybe we can do this? That didn’t work. Maybe that? Hang on, maybe it’s in preferences? Oh, it’s in tools, no, wait, oh I just wrote the name wrong
Would it kill you to edit that out and stop wasting my time?!
At the same time, that is part of the developer experience, so the tutorial is still accurate
I think there’s a key distinction to be made between a “tutorial” and a “vlog.” Some videos you watch to learn things, and other videos you watch to be entertained by the struggle.
(Admittedly, for the latter the examples I have in my head are all makers/artists, not programmers, and I’m not sure I’d be as entertained watching somebody fuck up a software config as I am watching them panic as their epoxy resin pour goes wrong.)
Also… the actual good stuff has a good chance of not being free, or not being on YouTube—it’s just the reality of our world.
When you look for YouTube videos of random people, you can get anything, from good programmers to horrible ones. You can’t really require quality from strangers posting stuff for fun.
I think those are more interesting. I like seeing the process.
When you solve the issue, take a pause and then walk back the problem and how to fix it.
If it’s a “forgot where something was”, take a pause then start with “sorry bout that, it’s this…”.Own the mistake, learn from it, let others learn from it. But dont waste everyone’s time
To me in most cases it’s the opposite. I don’t watch video tutorials to solve a specific problem (sorry, Roal Van de Paar!), but to get into something. And therefore I prefer to see the problem solving in between and the workflow for that activity. If it really tends to waste my time, I just skip forward.
Text > video
Sometimes I prefer video… But usually not.
E.g. this channel has fantastic videos: https://youtube.com/@therustybits
The first step towards being great at anything is being shitty at that thing.
So only good tutorials/ guides are allowed?
How does one get from shitty to good if they can’t try to begin with?
Does this apply to other things, like coding, as well?
So only good tutorials/ guides are allowed from people that know what they are doing and aren’t just Sunday programmers and everyone else should stop littering the internet?
Yes.
but you do not think we should bully those who just try to make ad money on teaching things they don’t know a frick about do you?
We absolutely should.
How dare you?
Tutorials are largely pretty shit:
Sad thing is, you only realise once you learn a fair bit. All these “lifestyle” programmers I used to follow that were literally making out they were the next Carmack, just re-wording Wikipedia or the intro docs. From someone who is only a couple of years into their job as a React copy and paste engineer. Now if I see an intro where they’re making coffee and lofi is playing I click off, give me a 420p video with a distorted mic and constant electrical humming.
Then you have the Udemy courses where you can just chuck in the recent patch notes and say the course is updated to 2025 even though you’re referencing dead tech in the tutorial then an hour later up pops a PowerPoint please disregard the section about API’s for dot matrix printers.
All these code gurus with code quality of chatgpt 🤢 yet fancy lighting setups and VFX intros. Still, sometimes you can find a real gem in the wild on some humble but informative website.
what happened? need more info
Monads are like burritos?
Erm ackshually a monad is a monoid in the category of endofunctors
