March 6, 2015

Awful Link of the Day: /r/WatchPeopleCode

/r/WatchPeopleCode is at the forefront of the perplexing “live coding” trend, where turbonerds record themselves wrangling ones and zeroes and stream it on the internet for other turbonerds to watch in real time. “Think of it as like a ridealong in an episode of COPS, where who knows what I’m going to be running into,” teases a Firefox engineer at the start of a 2-hour video about printing in Linux. Yeah, ok.