Don’t. Just don’t.

Go on a walk. Feed your dog. Maybe read a fucking book. Do literally anything else.

  • popcar2@programming.dev
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    11 days ago

    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?!

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      11 days ago

      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

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      11 days ago

      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.