Looks like I need a Twitch bot of my own to set all the tags and stuff the way I like them. Not sure if the API even supports it, but we’ll see.
Pretty sure I’m going to do most of my livestreaming of coding and stuff from this Macbook Pro laptop 14” so I have to setup some of the streaming things first. Might as well do that right now.
I did notice that chat messages can how be sent to the channel without a full IRC client, so that’s cool.
My wife is doing “the Elane” in front of me. There is no music.
We have a better plan for what is going into my “studio” since I do most of my stuff from the laptop lately and love the flexibility and ergonomics of the laptop way more than being chained to a desk with a chair. In short, all the coding and random streams will be from this laptop, period. The only thing streamed from my “desk” will be my Zwift cycling streams. In fact, that “studio” really isn’t a studio, it’s more like a gym/workout room now. Nothing in there but my indoor bike setup at the table with fans, and the yoga mat on the ground. I can code in there, but it will be from the laptop. This means I can code outside, like now, as well and people won’t even know. I’m never doxing anything about our location, which my wife loves. Hell, I can even make coffee while streaming and not even dox anything.
I cannot stand these Bluetooth headphones. They have the shittiest sound quality. Also, Doris says, “They say you can have all kinds of issues with long-term headphones if you don’t use wired headphones.” Where are they? (Headed to the car to check for my Altec-Lansings.) OMG! These are so phenomenally better. Time to write some code.
Wondering what is the best bot account approach. I have done stuff with my own PAT before and it works fine. Just don’t want to code with that while streaming because I am prone to doxing it too easily.
Ya know, I just realized I could go back to leaving the coworking music stream on all day again since I can just lug around the laptop wherever I am, even when I’m coding on my other main work laptop. I wonder. Just got the idea because I want to do something from another secure computer that isn’t being streamed and that could be my work computer in this case. This means that anytime I want to test something out on my server lab VM host that I could do that on this stream. I have to figure out how to record streams from this laptop as well so I can do the shorts.
Need to create a calendar with the music for the day so people can tune into the music they prefer. Also, I will never be playing DJ on any of these, absolutely nothing but music so as to never miss out on anything or have that annoying talky DJ factor. I can do talking streams that are focused on some topic when there is talk. Also, nothing but bangers in my playlists, stuff that I absolutely adore.
OBS is so buggy. Wasted 40 minutes just setting up a privacy screen.
I started a project for livestreamer community management some time ago. Need to find all that stuff.
Found it! I called is cozy (as in “cozy communities” or that thing that goes under your coffee cup to keep your wife from yelling at you for ruining the furniture). In fact, I had a whole repo created and summary design and I completely and totally forgot I ever did any of that. I’m getting really old. Cozy is the larger framework for community collaboration and kind of encapsulates the live command I was working on before. The live app was a universal tool for making a livestreamer’s life easier, including from the command line. Found live as well. I had a good start on the domain model. But looking over it just need to get some business logic encapsulated into high-level functions and start using them however.
Woah, Twitch has an entire helper CLI application now, written in Go, of course. https://github.com/twitchdev/twitch-cli This means there is very little need to do much of anything extra. Makes me want to code everything in bash again.
And another thing, twitch-cli is a brew cask that has its own git repo demonstrating how much better brew is at managing an independent ecosystem of packages (unlike apt and whatever Arch does). Just point at a GitHub repo and everything works. No need to update some deep and dirty authorized package hosting location in some brittle configuration file, the best of what the AUR tried to do, but so much better. There’s something really cool about this as a method of distribution for casks. I’m getting a little turned on. This is why so many developers are just using Macs these days. Linux purists can fuck right off. This shit is so drop-dead easy and elegant and the bulk of gainfully employed programmers out there are probably using Macs (including Rob Pike and Ken Thompson). After all, Mac is BSD (which is far and away a superior operating system to Linux).
The Twitch API team has really stepped up their game. The twitch-cli is a thing of beauty, even using goreleaser (like all our stuff at work that I recently implemented). In fact, their configuration file looks like it gets around the limitations of Go when using “innersource” model repos on GitHub cloud portal (as opposed to enterprise server). These hooks are really intriguing:
before:
hooks:
- sh -c "go env -w GOPROXY=direct"
- go mod download
I mean, this project is fucking amazing Go. I need to remember to use it to showcase really amazing Go development practices. I’m learning all kinds of things myself. Apparently, scoops is the same thing for Windows. I swear, there is a different new Windows package manager out every month trying to catch up with that Mac has been doing for more than a decade with brew. First time I saw someone describe how to use brew on a Linux machine to install their project I laughed out loud. Not any more. I’m even considering using it to distribute my own applications from now on—especially since it can be easily combined with scoops using goreleaser as the Twitch CLI team is doing. Very cool stuff. They use docker in order to have a consistent build environment as well.
My wife, Doris, just was hanging a painting next to me and accidentally provided a great ass-shot in my minicam while coding on the live stream. It was hilarious.
Loving streaming from the laptop since I can do it anywhere without doxing anything at all. And I suppose having a separate work computer is best even if it is a lot more to carry around with me.
I totally fell in love with the twitch-cli.
But, ugh, twitch command uses Cobra but doesn’t have completion, wt actual fuck? Added issue asking https://github.com/twitchdev/twitch-cli/issues/336. I’m seriously thinking of submitting a PR to the project to add it. I fucking love this project, one of the cleanest I have seen so far. Frankly, I am seriously surprised at the quality coming from Twitch having followed if for about four years. People joking Twitch might offer me a job. I doubt it. My API dev skills are elsewhere, but I would actually not mind. There is no way Twitch would ever give me the latitude for doing things in my personal life that my current company does (which literally defined and created the “weekend” decades ago).
After a day of streaming from the laptop and just leaving the music up and on I am starting to think this is a new normal for me as long as I am awake and around. It’s so great to just have a chat room to pop into and chat about whatever is going on. By having the music and no audio it makes it so that people don’t miss anything and can catch up just by looking at the chat, for the most part. My logging what I’m thinking and doing like this might appear kinda lame to a lot of streamers, but it sort of catches up people who want to follow what is going on in real time without having to read through the chat (which they can also do if they use an IRC client). The question is should the VOD full of copyrighted music be made available. I’m guessing no. These things will be pretty long, so I’m guessing people aren’t going to want to wait around and watch while there is already another one running. Perhaps the log and possibility of IRC channel joining will satisfy those who want to not miss anything.
The thing about having my face proves I’m not a fucking recording like the other “ASMR” software streams are. I’m actually here, most of the time, and when I’m not everyone can see that I’m not.
And another thing, I can stream like this sitting right next to my wife while she does her stuff. Hell, I can even stream like this from bed coding like I used to do for years when I was first married to Doris, who sleeps really soundly. I would get so much shit down in the late night hours snuggled up to Doris and listening to headphones instead of her and the dog’s snoring. I always ask, “are you sure?” and the answer is always the same, “absolutely.” This is really the start of a new era, so much change, and some old things returning. Writing code and listening to great music with friends has my dopamine levels off the chart and inflammation completely gone. OMG, could streaming actually be good for me? I suppose it depends on the type of streaming.