geekygirlsarah
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3 years ago After seeing the large number of people leaving the Live Coders team, a large number of them being fellow women developers/streamers, and talking to some of them, I have decided to withdraw my application.
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What is the URL for your Twitch channel? https://twitch.tv/geekygirlsarah
Are you a Twitch affiliate or partner? (Your application will be automatically rejected if the answer is no) Yes (affiliate)
What languages / frameworks / tools do you program in while streaming on Twitch? I am open to anything and everything as I bounce between many languages in things I work on. I call myself a "polyglot software engineer" for this reason. I don't become an expert in anything, but do appreciate languages of many varieties because they have good and bad uses to them. I'm a "use the right tool for the job" kind of person, and think I'm a better dev because I have learned so many (about 12 or so) over my career.
For the month I have regularly streamed, I've used: Arduino C++, Python (Django), PHP (Symfony), Jekyll
My open source project is a method of comparing programming languages so for October and beyond I will regularly work on it, which can include literally any language. I also tinker with hardware so will be working on Raspberry Pis and Arduinos too.
Why do you write code on stream? Two main reasons. The first being that I have wanted to work on my OSS project for a few years but can never dedicate the time. I wanted a dedicated time to work on it, and after meeting a few friends that live stream and how they said it was nice for them, I thought the dedicated schedule would help me accomplish this.
The other is that I have been speaking at conferences for about 5 years, I have taught a college programming class/lab for 3 years before that, and I've mentored/taught kids and adults, and especially women in tech groups, hardware and software things for years. I love doing it because I love sharing what I love, and I love programming and technology. I've been told over the years I'm great at explaining things, I'm encouraging and supportive, and this comes through in what I do. I've also had several people say they'd love to see how I approach problem solving and would love to see me do coding streams or videos. Twitch seemed like a great outlet to continue to share what I love.
What is your favorite moment from coding on stream? Share a clip if one is available Probably so far it's been one of a couple of things:
What do you want to accomplish with the Live Coders? I love seeing how communities can form and how they can help boost each other up. I love the idea of finding other people that are live coding on Twitch, either smaller audiences like myself currently or even some larger, and just jumping on their streams and helping either liven conversations, helping them with their own problems, or just dropping the occasional "you can do it!" or other support. In the short time I picked back up twitch, I've made several new friends (developers and non-devs) and am kind of loving what I've seen so far. I like the idea of being able to boost other devs up this way, especially other women I've seen. I also appreciate how other live coders have slowly started raiding me and how it's already helped boost up my chat and made my streams more interactive in just a short period of time. I want to pay that forward through this network too!
What do you want the Live Coders team to help you with? Twitch is sort of a daunting platform to start off on unless you happen to figure out a lot of knobs, dials, and doodads. There are tutorials and such for newer people to figure out OBS/SLOBS/XSplit, how to configure some of the Twitch integrations and extensions, and such. But at the same time there's extra things one can do to help make a stream your own. While I know I can be fairly vibrant on screen and have had many years of interacting with live audiences and students, I still want to learn from others on different ways they're doing their streams, they're configuring the streaming software, and more. I'm still mostly used to all live or all text, and a live video+text is a little different form, but I've learned a lot already and want to improve!
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