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Getting Started with Live Coding

Jeremy Morgan on October 12, 2019

Live coding will be the hot new trend with developers and you can start doing it today. Live streaming of game playing has been hot for a while now...
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libre

Hi Jeremy, I started live coding some game dev with Javascript and the growth has been incredibly fast (500 followers after 3 months). It's one of the best decision in my life and I encourage every body to start the adventure.
If anyone wants to reach out, come say hello at twitch.tv/fr33maan!
Happy coding!❤️

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Thibaut Patel

Hey Jeremy, did you choose a theme for your streams ? Like focusing on one side project ?
I've also started to livestream code recently and I found it reassuring to set a theme (I'm playing live coding challenges from CodinGame on my end).

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Jeremy Morgan

I have not yet. My initial theme is going to be playing around with Linux distributions and benchmarking them. I'm also going to do some developer setup on them and stuff.

For a future theme, I want to do some infra stuff. Setting up clusters, private networks, Kubernetes setups etc. I figure I'll find what people like and what I like to do and go from there.

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Gio

Hey Jeremy,

Thank you for this helpful writeup.

I wanted to ask; how do folks generally go about recording their stream?

What I'm thinking is doing streams on youtube or twitch (or both?) and then uploading the recording afterwards.

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Jeremy Morgan

Awesome! Let me know when you do!

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Peter Witham

Jeremy, thanks for putting all the information in one easy to follow post.

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Alara Oluwatoyin Joel

Hey Jeremy, I plan on starting some live coding for kids, within the next three months I DEFINITELY WOULD need some training tbh.

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Oscar Centeno

Have you seen gitduck?

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Abul Kalam Azad

Awesome!

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TuWang

This is awesome ;) either a coincidence or dev recommendations is really working well. I have just been talking about live code steaming and here is your post. Thanks!!

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Arnaud Delubac

That's a nice post, maybe i'm going to try it as well.
There are a few live coding stream on twitch no? Most of them are on youtube or am i wrong?