Going Meta

One thing I get asked about, more than I ever expected, was about how I do some things for CodeReviewVideos.com.

I never expected people to be interested in my set up.

But I get a fair amount of questions, all the same.

One such question has been around my editing process.

I keep things super simple. You may have noticed my lack of Hollywood effects on transitions, and what have you.

Growth

I take a lot of pleasure in recording the videos for the site.

It is truly the best bit.

I started this site because I thought how much further I’d have been, professionally, and personally, if I had just known some of this stuff a few years earlier.

That if I followed this stuff, I could be building systems that emphasised a more decoupled nature, and in doing so, I’d build systems that were extremely pleasant to work with. The code would be an enjoyable place to be.

Which ultimately would give you more freedom to spend time working on the more exciting bits.

Learning React if you’re a back end dev may seem like a pointless pain in the arse. But it could be that your life is overwhelmed with firefighting on the back end, that you don’t ever get the time you’d like to play with the front end.

It may be that once you’ve played around with some simple, yet powerful front end concepts that you’d actually start to love it. There is a lot of fun to be had there.

Behind The Scenes

That’s the stuff I like recording.

But a huge constraint for me recording more videos like that has been in that an equal amount of time or more goes into editing.

This week I decided to take on a dedicated editor.

It’s a big deal for me. I’ve accepted that I can’t do it all.

And because I get asked about my behind-the-scenes process so much, I decided to share some of it. More on that below.

Video Update

This week I recorded two full days of Livestream stuff.

Livestream right now has literally been me recording as normal, but watching myself on a private discord to see just how many secrets I’d accidentally expose. No plot twist here: it would have been a few.

The exercise was very worthwhile. I found out about a little box I could use to control various aspects of the stream like an arcade keypad. Seemed totally overkill.

More realistic is to go with some sort of two screen setup, and record the secondary screen, only dragging into shot what I know is safe to share.

Or an alternative is to go full open infrastructure, and treat it as a total demo environment. I’m not sure, yet. These are some of the enjoyable questions I find myself pondering on the livestream.

It is… unique.

It’s awesome fun though.

https://codereviewvideos.com/course/everyday-linux/video/reverse-incremental-search

Some stuff I take for granted is like wizardry to others.

When I first saw a systems architect use this command whilst debugging some prod issue, I vowed to find out what the command was.

I should have just asked. But at the time, it wasn’t the right environment. And later on I couldn’t articulate what I’d seen.

So now I share this with you. Everyone new who sees this thinks it’s cool. Well, everyone who thinks things like this are cool.

People like you and me 🙂

https://codereviewvideos.com/course/live-stream-broken-link-checker/video/decouple-wizard-from-oz

In the second Livestream video we dive into refactoring to a tested implementation. The design takes on a totally different shape.

It’s really interesting where this leads us too in terms of a coupled, or ideally, more decoupled system.

With the decoupling should come flexibility, and enjoyability.

This one is for you if you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to work with PHPUnit beyond a trivial example.

I’d be keen to read your thoughts as you watch along. Join me on the forum to do so.

We’re Off To Decouple The Wizard from Oz

 

https://codereviewvideos.com/course/meta/video/editing-process

This video is one I would have cringed at myself for just a few years back. Now? Life’s too short.

I get asked about my process a lot. Way more than I anticipated. It will be nice to have a video reference to direct those questions towards in the future.

This is also serving as my “on boarding” video for my new video editor.

A video editing video on video editing for a video editor, so they can help me with my video editing.

If I had a moustache, the ends would be receiving a serious amount of whisker curling after such a thing.

Thank You

This site is possible thanks to your continued support, for which I am extremely grateful.

If you are an existing subscriber, may I take this opportunity to say a sincerely heartfelt thank you.

If you are not yet a subscriber then you’re missing out on a developer education from someone who wants you to genuinely, and passionately succeed in everything you do.

It’s good stuff and you should check it out.

And don’t just take my word for it:

A great tutorials that provide real day to day solutions and techniques to every Symfony and PHP developer.

– amdouni

Until next week,

Chris

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4 thoughts on “Going Meta”

    1. No, unfortunately not. It didn’t work out with the editor either 🙁

      I put those failings on my own shoulders though. I should have been more thorough with my editor, covered more of what I expected.

      I reached out to a bunch of content creators regarding courses, but had no luck, unfortunately.

      2018 was tough. I have a revised plan for this year 🙂

      1. I propose you create a course on video tutorials creation? 🙂

        So you can teach people who are willing to become a creator about what you expect and how to do it. I think it is a higher chance to got some new creators in a team.

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