You probably have already noticed that nowadays it’s becoming fashionable online to share technical material via videos (eg YouTube.)
I somehow can understand the appeal of creating videos for sharing thoughts/news, esp b/c it takes way less time and focus compared to writing things (just hit the record button and go.)
But videos are.
👎 not index-able (at least locally)
👎 not searchable.
👎 not copy-paste friendly if at all.
👎 impossible to skim through.
👎 a major distraction from the train of thoughts.
IMO, in most cases, the more effective and impactful medium of technical comms is the written form: a Mastodon toot, a blog post, a gist, a Pastebin entry or even a Facebook post!
I like written-form documentation, it means I don’t need to play audio in our shared space at work. It’s also a lot faster to find what I’m looking for with written docs than skipping through a video looking for the relevant bits.
Usually when I’m looking for docs, I find that the less time I need to spend in the material, the better. Videos are fixed length and don’t often come with a list of labelled timestamps.
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I like written-form documentation, it means I don’t need to play audio in our shared space at work. It’s also a lot faster to find what I’m looking for with written docs than skipping through a video looking for the relevant bits.
Usually when I’m looking for docs, I find that the less time I need to spend in the material, the better. Videos are fixed length and don’t often come with a list of labelled timestamps.