Don’t. Just don’t.
Go on a walk. Feed your dog. Maybe read a fucking book. Do literally anything else.
Text > video
Sometimes I prefer video… But usually not.
E.g. this channel has fantastic videos: https://youtube.com/@therustybits
Today I had the pleasure of trying to search for how to shift a chartjs array and finally had to try and watch a “tutorial video” where they allegedly discussed it.
Cut to me clicking around just trying to find the screenshot where they are actually doing the thing that I want to do, and then they proceed to fuck up its usage three times with much scrolling back and forth through their example code that they didn’t show in full anywhere and rapidly clicking between windows while they got their shit together.
I just wanted to see like, three lines of code.
Maybe I should have just asked chatgpt.
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?!
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.
