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Code streaming 4:00pm PST: Python, app engine and github api
17 points by DFectuoso 5535 days ago
Hey HN!

I've been experimenting with a new idea that I borrowed from Starcraft 2: Streaming live coding sessions. The idea is to have fun, productive sessions on open source software where I can talk a little bit about what I am doing.

I envision a future where a lot of programmers use their open source, side-project, hobby inspired hacking sessions and that allows a lot more people to learn how to do stuff.

Today (in 2 hours) i will be streaming for 3-4 hours doing a Google App Engine application that interacts with an API I wrote for Noticias Hacker( a spanish version of HN) to get the list of github users. Then i'll use the github api to store some information and try to do a nice dashboard where you can see what the users of NH have been up to in the last week in Github.

I will start from zero, create a GAE app, a github repository and use some task queues and cron jobs.

Please join us @ www.livestream.com/dfectuoso

We will have some people on Skype and hope to get some nice feedback from the chat!

3 comments

This is great. I wanted to do this for a while myself. Couple of questions:

1- Why livestream? 2- What was the viewer count? I ask this because; was there audience participation? 3- What software did you use for streaming?

Thanks!

any chance you can loop the video once you're finished so us euros can watch it tomorrow morning?
It will be available as streaming in that same url :D