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?!
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.
The question is, who decides what shitty guide is. You? Let people write what they want, you don’t have to use or read it. Also why not tell those you write shitty guides and tell them what is shitty, so they can improve. Instead trash talk on an unrelated forum??
If you don’t have necessary experience and are pretending to be an expert sharing your ‘knowledge’ on the web… You should stop.
That does not answer my question. Who is judging what is bad and shitty guides, and who has the necessary experience? I disagree with you. Let people write articles that YOU think are shitty. Beginners or professional grade knowledge, I am for the open web where noobs share their knowledge as well. Assuming they are written by a human, not talking about Ai.
Do you have any article as an example what you consider shitty and you do not allow to be posted on the free web?
I’ve seen way too many tutorials that are trying to teach JavaScript, and mixing up JavaScript with Java… Saying that Java is just another, shorter, name for JavaScript.
I’m also a big fan of the open web. It’s good that people can post without needing a big publisher or newspaper to back them. But there are definite drawbacks as well. It can be very hard for someone who is trying to learn basic concepts, to know who actually knows what they’re talking about, since anyone can post anything.
Well if you don’t know what constitutes good code and what constitutes bad code practices and don’t see how much crap is on the web, not even compilable sometimes, then you probably are among the very people who should refrain from teaching others and/or cease sharing your ‘valuable knowledge’
In fact, I insist you to do so
If you know what constitutes good code you probably won’t be browsing for tutorials. Tutorials, even the bad ones, are useful for beginners. If you aren’t a beginner, don’t look for them and you won’t be so pissed by it.
You talk like you are a professional, but professionals know where to look and where to not look for reliable information.
Don’t make this a personal attack. Do you have any article you consider to be shitty? As an example, so we are on the same page. Do you ever wrote them a message or did an issue, so they are aware of the issue and can correct the mistake? Do you think they read this post of you and stop posting, because you do not agree with what they consider to be useful?
Sorry but, you are not the person who decides who can post and who cannot. I have seen shitty articles that others find useful, and I saw good articles that others find shitty. Do you get what I mean?
As I said previously. Do not attempt to teach or guide in any field you have no idea about. Sorry you feel attacked by my post but I have slightly better things to be doing than placating harmed egos on the web.
So you don’t even have a single example. Well I consider your post as useless and spam. Please stop posting useless and spam like this. Edit: Also you still don’t answer a single question. Who is the judge? Who do I ask if my posts are okay to post? You?
I see I struck some nerve here, calm down and just evaluate yourself if what you post has any value. Do you feel confident about your skills?
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?
Back in my day, there were no guides; except for books that had to be bought or borrowed, one learned by hacking code until it worked or, better yet, had a helpful person in the same room give tips.
After the internet came into being, there started to be guides, at first many were ok. Then people realized they could write slop and make money or get internet points or credit. So now here we are, today, with many horrible tutorials, some middling, some good ones, about to be buried by AI
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?
The first step towards being great at anything is being shitty at that thing.
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.
I just wrote a blog post and it was shit but at least I know what to do better next time.
I avoid things from dev.to and Medium like the plague, unless I can’t find anything, anywhere else. However, something that’s shitty for you might not be shitty to someone else.
It will just get worse with all the AI slop. Read the docs first, always.
Who doesn’t love impossible to follow variable names?
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