conversation_notes/ep_03.md

Live Show Notes, 25 Feb 2021

Hosts: Joe Nash (@jna_sh), Don Goodman-Wilson (@DEGoodmanWilson)

Notes: Ramón Huidobro (@hola_soy_milk)

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Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoahLla5aZM

Coding in Front of Others

The art of the live demo

• Twilio 5 minute demo
• Using CoScreen for collaboration (and this note taking!)
• Downside to sharing code on video: Not being able to copy-paste, not accessible

Sharing code on video

• WebRTC is not optimised for transmitting code
• Making sure the resolution isn't too high and the text is reasonably big, low framerate, colour contrast
• Not all syntax themes are accessible (colour contrast, accessibility)
• Syntax highlighting
• Highlighting different arguments, imports, exception highlighting
• Highlighting sections of code in presentation software as an obstacle (Carbon is good for particular code samples)
• ASCIInema create accessible terminal recordings
• Paircast
• Motivation: People want to bring their own tooling
• Inventing on Principle by Brett Victor

Integration of IDEs into streaming platforms

• Why don't we have a Twitch integration that provides a link to a git repo, container, "open in codespaces", "Glitch for Twitch", Gitpod
• A spiritual little sister or so of Codespaces (that's been making the rounds these days) is https://github1s.com/mozilla/glean (you append "1s" to an url and it opens the repo in a web-based VSCode instance)
• "Twitch plays with my VSCode"
• Two coding tags on Twitch: Software Development and Web Development

Streaming platforms

• Animated lower thirds using CSS
• VTubers (Virtual YouTubers) using 3D avatars of the streamer, eye tracking for showing what's being looked at
• Algoraves: Sam Aaron + Sonic Pi, NERDDISCO, http://creativecodingamsterdam.com/, https://creativecodingutrecht.nl/, https://sonic-pi.net/
• Inventing on Principle by Bret Victor
• Nannou: Creative Coding in Rust
  • Livestreamer who uses Nannou
• You can embed metadata in a video container
• Several steps in a pipeline that should be able to be controlled, like captioning.
• Figuring out how to synchronise, say, captions with stream

Artist performances

• Rustfest Global had loads of fascinating ones
• Great for refreshing minds in between presentations, also supporting the artists themselves
• Flaki on Raise.Dev showing his FireFox OS app
• Creative Coding: p5.js, processing.org
• Retro Coding, PICO-8, Azure functions game made by marc
• https://shop.pocketchip.co/collections/frontpage/products/pocket-c-h-i-p-new
• Combining pixel art with your IDE
• Saskia Freeke on coding art

Transcoding

• Twitch partnership required
  • Seems unfortunate for smaller streamers who want to reach audiences with less bandwidth