WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.180 There's an imposter in the group because everyone 00:00:02.180 --> 00:00:05.519 here uses Nuvem. Let's see if you guys can figure 00:00:05.519 --> 00:00:08.539 out who the imposter is. You should see my setup 00:00:08.539 --> 00:00:10.220 in a few minutes and you might want to switch 00:00:10.220 --> 00:00:14.060 back. There's a yellow dot blinking there at 00:00:14.060 --> 00:00:16.219 the bottom, you know, and I have been thinking 00:00:16.219 --> 00:00:19.140 about that dot for days and I'm like, what is 00:00:19.140 --> 00:00:22.519 that? What is that? I spend a lot of my time 00:00:22.519 --> 00:00:25.120 on YouTube land trying to make greenfield content, 00:00:25.260 --> 00:00:29.379 meaning can this thing just sort of last? The 00:00:29.379 --> 00:00:32.100 test of time. I just want to thank the sponsor 00:00:32.100 --> 00:00:36.140 of this video, BenQ. I was going to say, don't 00:00:36.140 --> 00:00:40.219 start doing mobile gaming. I'm not exploring. 00:00:41.079 --> 00:00:44.659 God knows what type of technologies and plugins 00:00:44.659 --> 00:00:49.520 and stuff like that. I just keep a steady work. 00:00:51.589 --> 00:00:55.570 But been getting into Nix, eventually like Nix 00:00:55.570 --> 00:00:57.789 would allow somebody to literally replicate your 00:00:57.789 --> 00:01:00.390 computer on their computer. So that's been kind 00:01:00.390 --> 00:01:03.609 of interesting to me that I almost like want 00:01:03.609 --> 00:01:06.469 to write this one ultimate config where people 00:01:06.469 --> 00:01:08.969 could literally pull in my computer and essentially 00:01:08.969 --> 00:01:11.409 have the exact same experience that I do. And 00:01:11.409 --> 00:01:17.569 that brings me to the segue to the next sponsor 00:01:17.569 --> 00:01:20.489 of this video, which is 1Password. Just kidding. 00:01:20.870 --> 00:01:26.709 I wish they were. But we're going to try to find 00:01:26.709 --> 00:01:29.989 an EOVM guy for the next time. Unfortunately, 00:01:30.150 --> 00:01:33.629 we couldn't. So we had to do the Emacs Linux 00:01:33.629 --> 00:01:37.829 guy. If you're listening to this as a podcast, 00:01:38.109 --> 00:01:40.269 remember that it was originally recorded as a 00:01:40.269 --> 00:01:42.349 video. If you're not following along, you can 00:01:42.349 --> 00:01:44.629 go to my YouTube channel. My username is Linkarzu. 00:01:44.790 --> 00:01:46.969 And if you want to support me to keep this podcast 00:01:46.969 --> 00:01:49.739 going, you can donate in Ko -fi. I'm going to 00:01:49.739 --> 00:01:51.920 leave a link in the description. All right. So 00:01:51.920 --> 00:01:55.359 let's get started with this chapter then. All 00:01:55.359 --> 00:02:01.239 right. So there's a lot of guests today. I have 00:02:01.239 --> 00:02:04.340 three guests. This is the first time. We're going 00:02:04.340 --> 00:02:08.800 to see if this works out or not. And what's the 00:02:08.800 --> 00:02:11.919 topic that we're covering today? The reality 00:02:11.919 --> 00:02:18.770 of being tech. influencer or youtuber or however 00:02:18.770 --> 00:02:24.370 i love the air quotes yeah yeah however people 00:02:24.370 --> 00:02:28.050 know us so i just want to keep this conversation 00:02:28.050 --> 00:02:33.710 casual and um real right uh because people think 00:02:33.710 --> 00:02:36.509 that you know we're living the high life that 00:02:36.509 --> 00:02:38.610 we're kind of special different or something 00:02:38.610 --> 00:02:41.969 i don't know you know so i just want to hear 00:02:41.969 --> 00:02:47.210 everyone thoughts opinions and advice we have 00:02:47.210 --> 00:02:50.889 for people that are trying to get started with 00:02:50.889 --> 00:02:55.490 this right so i'm gonna go around the table so 00:02:55.490 --> 00:02:58.590 you guys can introduce yourselves talk a little 00:02:58.590 --> 00:03:02.110 bit about you so if there's someone that doesn't 00:03:02.110 --> 00:03:04.530 know you well if there's someone watching this 00:03:04.530 --> 00:03:08.229 video they know you already probably they know 00:03:08.229 --> 00:03:11.340 you so In case there's someone that does not 00:03:11.340 --> 00:03:14.340 know you, would you mind introducing yourselves? 00:03:14.680 --> 00:03:19.139 Let's start with Medesky. Yeah. Hi, everyone. 00:03:19.219 --> 00:03:22.680 I'm Josh Medesky. I live in Texas here in the 00:03:22.680 --> 00:03:25.939 US. I'm a full stack developer by day, mostly 00:03:25.939 --> 00:03:33.120 TypeScript in the startup world. I am, yeah, 00:03:33.259 --> 00:03:35.479 here's my channel. So I'm a YouTuber as well 00:03:35.479 --> 00:03:39.879 by night. And I do a lot of stuff on Tmux. So 00:03:39.879 --> 00:03:41.840 we're going to talk about that later. But I have 00:03:41.840 --> 00:03:44.000 a Tmux session manager that's fairly popular. 00:03:44.800 --> 00:03:48.159 And then I do lots of content on Vim and macOS 00:03:48.159 --> 00:03:50.740 and all sorts of sort of tech -focused content, 00:03:50.819 --> 00:03:55.060 not so different than Linkarzu. And so that's 00:03:55.060 --> 00:04:00.639 me. Okay, wonderful. And let's move on to... 00:04:02.659 --> 00:04:05.020 Nikolov. How's it going, everyone? I'm Lazar 00:04:05.020 --> 00:04:08.120 Nikolov, based in Toronto, Canada. I'm a software 00:04:08.120 --> 00:04:11.000 engineer. I work as a DX engineer at Sentry. 00:04:11.400 --> 00:04:14.259 And yeah, occasionally I post YouTube videos 00:04:14.259 --> 00:04:19.639 on NeoVim, JavaScript web development, software 00:04:19.639 --> 00:04:23.800 architecture. I should do more of that because 00:04:23.800 --> 00:04:27.240 people seem to like it. But yeah, that's me. 00:04:27.420 --> 00:04:29.819 Thanks for having me. And you used to have a 00:04:29.819 --> 00:04:32.060 beard. I used to have a beard. Now I just have 00:04:32.060 --> 00:04:36.759 the mustache. And a long hair as well. Yeah. 00:04:37.360 --> 00:04:42.399 What happened? Major refactoring. Oh, yeah. Sold 00:04:42.399 --> 00:04:49.160 out. Okay. And what about Blaze? Well, hold on. 00:04:50.040 --> 00:04:53.500 Oh, no. There's an imposter in the group because 00:04:53.500 --> 00:04:56.600 everyone here uses Niuven. Let's see if you guys 00:04:56.600 --> 00:05:00.490 can figure out who the imposter is. so hey hey 00:05:00.490 --> 00:05:06.069 blaze yeah i'm the resident emacs guy aren't 00:05:06.069 --> 00:05:10.889 i yeah and and the guy that uses linux too damn 00:05:10.889 --> 00:05:14.029 i'm that guy hey yeah that you're the only one 00:05:14.029 --> 00:05:17.709 here yeah i'm uh i'm joshua blaze i have a little 00:05:17.709 --> 00:05:19.529 youtube channel and i think of the littlest on 00:05:19.529 --> 00:05:22.569 this on the stream so go follow me get me closer 00:05:22.569 --> 00:05:25.629 to these guys over there um yeah i'm i'm the 00:05:25.629 --> 00:05:29.660 emacs guy i uh i talk about Kind of open source 00:05:29.660 --> 00:05:33.379 stuff, mostly on my YouTube channel. Very passionate 00:05:33.379 --> 00:05:36.980 about that. And as you can see, I've had some 00:05:36.980 --> 00:05:39.040 experimentation with the NeoVim side of things, 00:05:39.139 --> 00:05:44.839 but I've seen the light. Well, it's three against 00:05:44.839 --> 00:05:51.800 one, man. I can't wait for this one. I used SpaceMax 00:05:51.800 --> 00:05:56.339 for multiple years, so I know my way around Emacs 00:05:56.339 --> 00:06:00.990 as well. The Joshua's will be together. Why did 00:06:00.990 --> 00:06:05.110 you move to the right path, Medesky? What happened? 00:06:05.250 --> 00:06:09.970 Why did you move to the light? I think I actually 00:06:09.970 --> 00:06:12.670 moved from SpaceMax back to VS Code for a while 00:06:12.670 --> 00:06:17.230 and then made the pivot to NeoVim full -time 00:06:17.230 --> 00:06:22.230 after just really getting friendlier with the 00:06:22.230 --> 00:06:24.709 terminal and really enjoying that environment 00:06:24.709 --> 00:06:29.839 the most. Yeah. With Emacs, you don't need a 00:06:29.839 --> 00:06:33.579 terminal. That's right. But you should see my 00:06:33.579 --> 00:06:35.540 setup in a few minutes and you might want to 00:06:35.540 --> 00:06:41.939 switch back. Oh, okay. Let's get started with 00:06:41.939 --> 00:06:46.019 that. How is people going to get to know you 00:06:46.019 --> 00:06:48.300 better? We can talk a lot here, but I think that 00:06:48.300 --> 00:06:51.379 if we show or you guys show your setups, people 00:06:51.379 --> 00:06:54.620 will know you way more than stuff that we can 00:06:54.620 --> 00:06:57.810 discuss here. What if we start with Medesky? 00:06:57.870 --> 00:06:59.589 I'm just going to switch to your screen. And 00:06:59.589 --> 00:07:01.930 if you want to show how you use your setup real 00:07:01.930 --> 00:07:04.110 quick in, I don't know, one, two, three minutes, 00:07:04.329 --> 00:07:06.850 however long you want to take. Is that okay? 00:07:07.410 --> 00:07:10.529 Yeah, I'll be brief. Okay, so let's start with 00:07:10.529 --> 00:07:15.350 Medesky. So at a high level, I'm a macOS guy. 00:07:15.610 --> 00:07:18.110 I really like Raycast. Raycast is helpful for 00:07:18.110 --> 00:07:21.209 lots of little productivity things. I recently 00:07:21.209 --> 00:07:23.529 switched back to Aerospace, which is a window 00:07:23.529 --> 00:07:26.589 manager, so I can... pretty easily switch between 00:07:26.589 --> 00:07:32.589 things and have layouts as I see fit. It's been 00:07:32.589 --> 00:07:35.750 working well so far. And then, yeah, full time, 00:07:35.949 --> 00:07:39.250 I'm either in Arc, which is a fairly popular 00:07:39.250 --> 00:07:42.389 Chrome -based browser from the browser company. 00:07:43.730 --> 00:07:48.029 And then I use Westerm probably the rest of my 00:07:48.029 --> 00:07:52.930 time. So I'm a fish shell guy. I like the speediness 00:07:52.930 --> 00:07:56.290 of the fish shell. And then I'm a Tmux guy, so 00:07:56.290 --> 00:07:58.569 all my projects are driven by this thing called 00:07:58.569 --> 00:08:01.990 Sesh. Sesh is a project manager I created, and 00:08:01.990 --> 00:08:06.089 I can get to projects immediately within just 00:08:06.089 --> 00:08:08.449 a couple keystrokes. So here's my .files if we 00:08:08.449 --> 00:08:12.250 wanted to go to my aerospace config. We can see 00:08:12.250 --> 00:08:14.709 that there. Maybe we want to go to my NeoVim 00:08:14.709 --> 00:08:18.310 config. Maybe we want to go to my website. So 00:08:18.310 --> 00:08:23.680 this picker uses Oxide. combined with some cool, 00:08:23.699 --> 00:08:26.939 clever features on top of it itself. And that 00:08:26.939 --> 00:08:30.339 lets me navigate things very quickly. And then 00:08:30.339 --> 00:08:34.019 you'll notice I have a file picker that always 00:08:34.019 --> 00:08:38.360 shows up first. And then I have a very, very 00:08:38.360 --> 00:08:41.980 minimalist approach to NeoVim. You'll see there's 00:08:41.980 --> 00:08:44.879 like very little elements on the screen, no line 00:08:44.879 --> 00:08:49.460 numbers, no empty white space, no bar at the 00:08:49.460 --> 00:08:52.610 bottom. and this is just a custom neovim config 00:08:52.610 --> 00:08:55.769 that i've built and so i like to do my unit testing 00:08:55.769 --> 00:08:59.610 within neovim i like to debug within neovim um 00:08:59.610 --> 00:09:03.190 and you'll see i get a lot of the features everyone 00:09:03.190 --> 00:09:07.710 else expects like code folding and tailwind highlights 00:09:07.710 --> 00:09:12.210 and yeah so i really i really really enjoy this 00:09:12.210 --> 00:09:15.269 workflow and then i also do use i'm not going 00:09:15.269 --> 00:09:18.299 to open it but i do use obsidian as my second 00:09:18.299 --> 00:09:21.059 brain from note -taking. And I'm currently working 00:09:21.059 --> 00:09:23.940 on a dynamic plugin that sort of adapts to whatever 00:09:23.940 --> 00:09:26.919 file I have open. So maybe sometime soon I'll 00:09:26.919 --> 00:09:29.039 show that off, but I have Vim bindings set up 00:09:29.039 --> 00:09:34.519 in the Obsidian app. And so between Obsidian 00:09:34.519 --> 00:09:40.039 and Arc and Westerm and Discord, that's probably 00:09:40.039 --> 00:09:43.919 where I'll spend most of my time. Yeah. I have 00:09:43.919 --> 00:09:48.080 a question for you, Josh. Sure. Why do you steal 00:09:48.080 --> 00:09:50.460 or why do you use Obsidian? I love Obsidian. 00:09:50.559 --> 00:09:53.679 I used it for quite a long time, but I moved 00:09:53.679 --> 00:09:56.120 completely to NeoVim. Is there a reason why you 00:09:56.120 --> 00:10:00.700 are in Obsidian? Yeah, the main thing is that 00:10:00.700 --> 00:10:02.919 plugin I mentioned. Maybe I'll show it off one 00:10:02.919 --> 00:10:07.179 day soon. But when I open up a project for, let's 00:10:07.179 --> 00:10:10.179 say, my house in the sidebar, I have this dynamic 00:10:10.179 --> 00:10:12.759 thing where it shows off. What are the current 00:10:12.759 --> 00:10:14.460 projects I'm working on? And what are my resources 00:10:14.460 --> 00:10:16.539 tied to my house? And what are all of these things? 00:10:16.639 --> 00:10:18.799 And so I get this contextualized view that moves 00:10:18.799 --> 00:10:23.080 with me as I use my notes. I'm excited to iterate 00:10:23.080 --> 00:10:25.480 on this plugin. It's a plugin I wrote. And so 00:10:25.480 --> 00:10:27.940 for me, it's just, I get really good context 00:10:27.940 --> 00:10:30.700 as to what's going on in my life as I navigate 00:10:30.700 --> 00:10:33.820 Obsidian. And so I find that I haven't been able 00:10:33.820 --> 00:10:36.919 to recreate that in the terminal yet. Although 00:10:36.919 --> 00:10:40.399 I have some ideas on how to do that. Emacs. Joshua 00:10:40.399 --> 00:10:43.179 is going to say Emacs. He's going to say org 00:10:43.179 --> 00:10:51.299 mode. Org mode. Yeah, and you talk about your 00:10:51.299 --> 00:10:53.580 setup in your channel, right? Yeah, I spend a 00:10:53.580 --> 00:10:57.299 lot of time talking about this stuff. You know, 00:10:57.320 --> 00:11:00.840 how to be more efficient for the most part. Some 00:11:00.840 --> 00:11:04.059 of my high values are like minimalism, keeping 00:11:04.059 --> 00:11:06.700 things really simple, keeping all the distractions 00:11:06.700 --> 00:11:11.799 out. And then being quick and intuitive with 00:11:11.799 --> 00:11:14.779 your setup so that your bindings are at your 00:11:14.779 --> 00:11:16.639 fingertips and you can get to everything that 00:11:16.639 --> 00:11:19.059 you need as quickly as possible with as little 00:11:19.059 --> 00:11:21.919 mental effort as possible. So I'm finding this 00:11:21.919 --> 00:11:26.620 really unique strategy for being very quick, 00:11:26.720 --> 00:11:29.700 but also it being very easy. So that sort of 00:11:29.700 --> 00:11:33.799 combining ease and speed has become very satisfying 00:11:33.799 --> 00:11:36.169 and it's only getting better as I build. more 00:11:36.169 --> 00:11:40.269 workflows around that, those values. Okay. Thanks 00:11:40.269 --> 00:11:43.450 for sharing all that. Let's move on to Nikolov. 00:11:45.110 --> 00:11:48.450 Can I switch to your screen, Hazar? Yeah, I'm 00:11:48.450 --> 00:11:53.929 ready. Okay. You see this? Yep, I can see it. 00:11:54.029 --> 00:11:57.690 Awesome. All right. So similar to Madesky, I 00:11:57.690 --> 00:12:01.720 full -time knew of him. I started off... using 00:12:01.720 --> 00:12:04.379 lazy vim but then i moved on to kickstart which 00:12:04.379 --> 00:12:07.639 still uses lazy under the hood and right now 00:12:07.639 --> 00:12:12.159 i'm exploring laravel so i am i still haven't 00:12:12.159 --> 00:12:15.659 configured debugging uh but i got i got everything 00:12:15.659 --> 00:12:18.860 i got syntax highlighting i got the unit tests 00:12:18.860 --> 00:12:21.960 right here and they're failing just like always 00:12:21.960 --> 00:12:27.850 uh but yeah other than that um Tmux or Tmux as 00:12:27.850 --> 00:12:34.049 I like to say in Poland. Yeah, keeping it minimal. 00:12:34.370 --> 00:12:36.809 I don't care too much about distractions. I get 00:12:36.809 --> 00:12:39.830 the bars at the bottom, but I'm just like used 00:12:39.830 --> 00:12:44.250 to, just basically used to this. This is perfectly 00:12:44.250 --> 00:12:52.509 fine for me. And what else? I use Brave as the 00:12:52.509 --> 00:12:56.529 browser. I tried Zen. For like a couple of days. 00:12:56.629 --> 00:13:00.789 And I immediately went back to Brave. I don't 00:13:00.789 --> 00:13:04.389 know. I guess it's just not there yet. What else? 00:13:06.570 --> 00:13:11.909 Raycast. I don't use Tiling Window Manager. So 00:13:11.909 --> 00:13:18.090 I just use Raycast's shortcuts to move my windows 00:13:18.090 --> 00:13:20.409 around. Although, full disclosure, I just use 00:13:20.409 --> 00:13:24.470 one screen. Okay. There's not a lot of windows 00:13:24.470 --> 00:13:26.990 moving around. It's more like tabbing between 00:13:26.990 --> 00:13:34.269 windows. So yeah, giving it light, giving it 00:13:34.269 --> 00:13:37.289 simple. I have a question and I forgot to ask 00:13:37.289 --> 00:13:41.409 it in our last video. There's a yellow dot blinking 00:13:41.409 --> 00:13:43.389 there at the bottom, you know, and I have been 00:13:43.389 --> 00:13:46.429 thinking about that dot for days and I'm like... 00:13:46.679 --> 00:13:49.399 what is that what does what is that yeah i have 00:13:49.399 --> 00:13:53.700 no idea what that is no idea now it's now it's 00:13:53.700 --> 00:13:57.100 here so like whenever i switch to a tab it's 00:13:57.100 --> 00:14:00.379 it's always there is that like let me see i i 00:14:00.379 --> 00:14:03.340 feel like if that if i just press ctrl b and 00:14:03.340 --> 00:14:07.799 then b again that's the back in tmux and that 00:14:07.799 --> 00:14:10.639 little dot shows you where you're gonna go if 00:14:10.639 --> 00:14:15.820 you just do ctrl b and b It's never on the second 00:14:15.820 --> 00:14:20.220 window, as you can see, or the second... You 00:14:20.220 --> 00:14:24.940 see? I'm switching between them. Okay. But it's 00:14:24.940 --> 00:14:28.039 for windows, right? When you move around in windows. 00:14:28.299 --> 00:14:33.700 Yeah. So if I click on the second now, the yellow 00:14:33.700 --> 00:14:35.340 dot is probably going to be on the third one. 00:14:35.679 --> 00:14:37.980 There we go. If I click on the first one, the 00:14:37.980 --> 00:14:39.480 yellow dot is going to be on the second one, 00:14:39.539 --> 00:14:43.610 because that's the previous. select that window 00:14:43.610 --> 00:14:47.970 so you can basically shuffle between them with 00:14:47.970 --> 00:14:51.110 control B and B. Oh, wonderful. I think that's 00:14:51.110 --> 00:14:55.470 the, yeah. I think that's the case. Okay. Anything 00:14:55.470 --> 00:15:00.309 else you want to share? I don't know. That's 00:15:00.309 --> 00:15:02.690 just pretty much it. I've been trying to use 00:15:02.690 --> 00:15:05.029 other editors as well, just to, you know, see 00:15:05.029 --> 00:15:09.629 what's out there. For work, I use Curter. Because 00:15:09.629 --> 00:15:12.590 I get to build my demo applications much faster 00:15:12.590 --> 00:15:18.110 that way. And I'm trying out PHPStorm and the 00:15:18.110 --> 00:15:20.350 JetBrain stuff right now. They reached out to 00:15:20.350 --> 00:15:23.389 me to sponsor me. So I was like, yeah, let's 00:15:23.389 --> 00:15:27.870 check out the JetBrain's editors. But I'm still 00:15:27.870 --> 00:15:32.769 not there. I want to keep my navigation as I 00:15:32.769 --> 00:15:36.350 do stuff in NeoVim. So it's going to take some 00:15:36.350 --> 00:15:40.440 while, but I'll get there. okay thanks for sharing 00:15:40.440 --> 00:15:47.419 what about blaze now oh me emacs guy this is 00:15:47.419 --> 00:15:51.980 your screen yep all right so yeah i live in emacs 00:15:51.980 --> 00:15:54.960 now it's um it's been a journey to come back 00:15:54.960 --> 00:15:58.279 to it but i uh i actually wrote a book in it 00:15:58.279 --> 00:16:06.100 in 20 2022 2023 and um just writing in it kind 00:16:06.100 --> 00:16:09.639 of showed me what else i could do with it um 00:16:09.639 --> 00:16:14.740 so many native exports to various formats that 00:16:14.740 --> 00:16:16.899 you need i i saw you had um what was the name 00:16:16.899 --> 00:16:22.519 tema uh dina it's dina yes yes on uh on your 00:16:22.519 --> 00:16:25.899 recent uh stream and very similar setup to him 00:16:25.899 --> 00:16:28.500 actually how i've kind of done writing and stuff 00:16:28.500 --> 00:16:32.100 but i mean let's talk about like uh programming 00:16:32.100 --> 00:16:36.110 i guess because that's kind of the uh I guess 00:16:36.110 --> 00:16:38.490 that's what everybody else here is kind of a 00:16:38.490 --> 00:16:41.549 little bit more. Well, not me. I'm more of the 00:16:41.549 --> 00:16:43.830 Markdown side. Yep. Yeah, you're a bit more of 00:16:43.830 --> 00:16:47.330 a writer. But like I used to use like a setup 00:16:47.330 --> 00:16:50.750 kind of like this when I was in NeoVim and Tmux 00:16:50.750 --> 00:16:53.710 and everything. And I kind of within Emacs, you 00:16:53.710 --> 00:16:56.210 can really like just use workspaces instead of 00:16:56.210 --> 00:16:57.809 Tmux. So like you can just switch to another 00:16:57.809 --> 00:17:00.409 workspace and go to another project, for example, 00:17:00.409 --> 00:17:04.980 like my blog or whatever like that. terminal 00:17:04.980 --> 00:17:07.559 everything i use inside of emacs so like vterm 00:17:07.559 --> 00:17:11.180 is my my terminal still has all the niceties 00:17:11.180 --> 00:17:15.900 that zsh has but uh it's in emacs because i do 00:17:15.900 --> 00:17:17.680 everything in emacs and then i live essentially 00:17:17.680 --> 00:17:20.759 in this and then in uh in zen browser is probably 00:17:20.759 --> 00:17:25.119 where i spend about 95 of my uh my time so yeah 00:17:25.119 --> 00:17:27.279 i don't know what uh what else should i cover 00:17:27.279 --> 00:17:30.180 about it but it's emacs is kind of like this 00:17:30.180 --> 00:17:33.539 wrapper on top of my base linux system um it 00:17:33.539 --> 00:17:36.779 extends all the tooling and it just it's it's 00:17:36.779 --> 00:17:40.240 super comfy when you get to it so do you do anything 00:17:40.240 --> 00:17:45.160 outside emacs do you go out ah i i try to bring 00:17:45.160 --> 00:17:47.880 everything into it so if i if i find myself going 00:17:47.880 --> 00:17:50.299 outside of it i'm like how do i write something 00:17:50.299 --> 00:17:52.680 that will allow me to stay inside of it so like 00:17:52.680 --> 00:17:56.779 even for my like changing of my um my this nm 00:17:57.339 --> 00:18:00.140 toggle radio for example like i do all my wi 00:18:00.140 --> 00:18:04.160 -fi setups inside of emacs like um all of my 00:18:04.160 --> 00:18:07.079 journaling everything like even stuff with in 00:18:07.079 --> 00:18:10.319 my system i've started to bring into emacs um 00:18:10.319 --> 00:18:15.039 so i don't ever have to leave it okay okay well 00:18:15.039 --> 00:18:18.119 i have thought about emacs a lot but i know that 00:18:18.119 --> 00:18:20.579 it requires a lot of time i don't want to leave 00:18:20.579 --> 00:18:22.619 any of them yeah i'm not gonna leave any of them 00:18:22.619 --> 00:18:27.349 but i think emacs is good for writing stuff Because 00:18:27.349 --> 00:18:31.329 there's a lot of tools already created. So we'll 00:18:31.329 --> 00:18:35.410 see. Yeah, there's evil mode. So you get Vim 00:18:35.410 --> 00:18:37.170 inside of Emacs. You get a little bit of Inception. 00:18:37.410 --> 00:18:41.650 It's pretty comfy, man. You should try it. Yeah, 00:18:41.730 --> 00:18:47.410 I will. Definitely. Okay, so let's get started 00:18:47.410 --> 00:18:49.970 with the topics that I have here listed right 00:18:49.970 --> 00:18:55.339 now. I'm used to typing J a lot. leaving it pressed 00:18:55.339 --> 00:18:58.380 but notice that i cannot now you see the message 00:18:58.380 --> 00:19:01.220 there on the little thingy on the right you probably 00:19:01.220 --> 00:19:05.680 cannot read it but oh man yeah i installed hard 00:19:05.680 --> 00:19:07.859 time doesn't want you to do it that's right yeah 00:19:07.859 --> 00:19:15.059 teaching you better practices yeah yeah so let's 00:19:15.059 --> 00:19:17.740 start with the things that you have learned by 00:19:17.740 --> 00:19:22.380 doing it all this youtube thing right um do you 00:19:22.380 --> 00:19:25.950 guys do it all yourselves or do you have an editor 00:19:25.950 --> 00:19:29.289 or do you guys do everything i don't know let's 00:19:29.289 --> 00:19:31.450 start with uh metesky what do you want to share 00:19:31.450 --> 00:19:36.089 there i like your questioning here things you've 00:19:36.089 --> 00:19:39.910 learned as a tech influencer so when i started 00:19:39.910 --> 00:19:44.910 i really i had these ideas and i recognized that 00:19:44.910 --> 00:19:48.250 the things i was doing could prove useful to 00:19:48.250 --> 00:19:51.470 other people and i used to teach at boot camps 00:19:52.340 --> 00:19:56.500 I have a lot of mentors and mentees. So there's 00:19:56.500 --> 00:19:59.799 a lot of education in my career. And so I thought, 00:19:59.940 --> 00:20:03.460 hey, let's learn how to duplicate myself. And 00:20:03.460 --> 00:20:05.500 YouTube seems to be a platform where instead 00:20:05.500 --> 00:20:08.960 of speaking to 50 people for two hours, I can 00:20:08.960 --> 00:20:12.299 post a video and I can get 50 ,000 people to 00:20:12.299 --> 00:20:15.319 learn about that topic. So originally, I was 00:20:15.319 --> 00:20:18.799 just learning about, well, how can I get... The 00:20:18.799 --> 00:20:20.740 things that I say the most to people and the 00:20:20.740 --> 00:20:22.839 things that I want out in the world in this area 00:20:22.839 --> 00:20:25.619 of workflows and productivity and at least the 00:20:25.619 --> 00:20:28.279 current topics I'm focused on. How do I get that 00:20:28.279 --> 00:20:30.859 out there? So that's what originally got me invested 00:20:30.859 --> 00:20:35.000 in making YouTube videos. It started really simple, 00:20:35.099 --> 00:20:37.819 just screen recordings with a floating head. 00:20:38.539 --> 00:20:42.839 And then I just hit upload. And I just slowly 00:20:42.839 --> 00:20:44.920 started picking up more skills. I've actually 00:20:44.920 --> 00:20:49.309 used the same Audio -Technica mic. for my entire 00:20:49.309 --> 00:20:51.809 career in YouTube so far. And I since bought 00:20:51.809 --> 00:20:55.549 a box that I can plug the mic in. But I started 00:20:55.549 --> 00:20:59.789 with just USB mic, upgraded equipment over time. 00:20:59.890 --> 00:21:02.529 I started learning. I picked a few different 00:21:02.529 --> 00:21:05.049 video editors. I think I started in Final Cut 00:21:05.049 --> 00:21:09.230 and ultimately switched to DaVinci Resolve, which 00:21:09.230 --> 00:21:12.289 I like a bit more. So I had to sort of experiment 00:21:12.289 --> 00:21:14.650 to find what video editor made the most sense 00:21:14.650 --> 00:21:19.509 to my brain. Um, and I've been, it's interesting 00:21:19.509 --> 00:21:21.950 to talk about this. I'd love to hear more of 00:21:21.950 --> 00:21:24.529 your guys' thoughts on this, but I'm, I didn't 00:21:24.529 --> 00:21:27.130 originally intend to make a YouTube channel so 00:21:27.130 --> 00:21:29.490 that I could get rich and famous or that I could 00:21:29.490 --> 00:21:32.930 get millions of views. Um, I've been really centered 00:21:32.930 --> 00:21:36.549 on community building. So, you know, I like to 00:21:36.549 --> 00:21:38.789 joke. I just found all the nerdy people that 00:21:38.789 --> 00:21:41.849 like the same things as me and I bring them in 00:21:41.849 --> 00:21:43.970 and we have lots of conversations around this 00:21:43.970 --> 00:21:47.289 stuff. I do tend to bring a lot of value with 00:21:47.289 --> 00:21:50.450 my open source projects. And so I do a lot of 00:21:50.450 --> 00:21:52.849 live streaming, which is probably where most 00:21:52.849 --> 00:21:54.849 of my content is. If you went and looked me up, 00:21:55.009 --> 00:21:58.630 you'd find over 150 hours of live streaming from 00:21:58.630 --> 00:22:02.609 me already. So I just enjoy building things to 00:22:02.609 --> 00:22:04.650 make people more effective in what they need 00:22:04.650 --> 00:22:07.869 to do and have these conversations and make friends 00:22:07.869 --> 00:22:11.349 along the way. So that's been my current strategy. 00:22:11.509 --> 00:22:15.309 I might make more videos. I might... veer out 00:22:15.309 --> 00:22:17.049 into different topics and see how that lands 00:22:17.049 --> 00:22:23.390 but that's been my journey so far okay and do 00:22:23.390 --> 00:22:26.529 you do editing yourself with that ski do you 00:22:26.529 --> 00:22:30.009 do yeah did you set up i've always liked movies 00:22:30.009 --> 00:22:32.730 so i have sort of a knack for or an interest 00:22:32.730 --> 00:22:36.730 in cinematography to some extent so i so far 00:22:36.730 --> 00:22:40.390 i'm enjoying the video editing process i haven't 00:22:40.390 --> 00:22:44.940 had a need to outsource anything okay Okay, thanks 00:22:44.940 --> 00:22:48.380 for sharing that. What about you, Nicolás? Pretty 00:22:48.380 --> 00:22:52.059 much the same as Medeski. I started off wanting 00:22:52.059 --> 00:22:55.660 to share what I learned, but I started writing 00:22:55.660 --> 00:22:58.539 blog posts. In terms of video, I started live 00:22:58.539 --> 00:23:04.720 streaming, building stuff. So my goal was to, 00:23:04.839 --> 00:23:09.259 yeah, just, you know, learn in public. Not build 00:23:09.259 --> 00:23:11.059 in public, but like learning. Build in public 00:23:11.059 --> 00:23:14.079 is more like... you know, indie hackers. I'm 00:23:14.079 --> 00:23:16.440 not an indie hacker. I just, you know, I wouldn't 00:23:16.440 --> 00:23:19.420 want to tinker with stuff and just, you know, 00:23:19.440 --> 00:23:21.920 put it out there. So yeah, I also started with 00:23:21.920 --> 00:23:24.059 live streaming and on YouTube, I feel like I 00:23:24.059 --> 00:23:29.619 started uploading YouTube specific videos about 00:23:29.619 --> 00:23:33.339 like two or three years ago. So not too long 00:23:33.339 --> 00:23:36.140 ago. So like a lot more into live streaming than 00:23:36.140 --> 00:23:41.980 videos. But yeah, making videos. grew on me. 00:23:43.420 --> 00:23:47.859 So much so that I wanted to learn more about 00:23:47.859 --> 00:23:50.740 AV equipment and stuff and expensive cameras. 00:23:51.099 --> 00:23:54.259 So I wish I made more videos. I'm looking at 00:23:54.259 --> 00:23:58.099 you, camera. So I wish I made more videos. But 00:23:58.099 --> 00:24:02.859 yeah, it's just nerd curiosity type of thing. 00:24:03.140 --> 00:24:06.240 I do everything myself, one man band. Again, 00:24:06.359 --> 00:24:12.940 DaVinci Resolve, same. And yeah, I want to kind 00:24:12.940 --> 00:24:15.839 of want to do like different shots, different 00:24:15.839 --> 00:24:20.339 scenarios, different techniques. For example, 00:24:20.460 --> 00:24:25.039 I have a video on why I switched from Kitty to 00:24:25.039 --> 00:24:29.319 Wes. And I have an interesting shot. I mean, 00:24:29.339 --> 00:24:31.000 the whole video is an interesting shot where 00:24:31.000 --> 00:24:36.559 my camera feed is part of my desktop background. 00:24:37.480 --> 00:24:43.279 So I'm pulling the terminal on top of my desktop. 00:24:43.500 --> 00:24:46.819 And with translucency and blur, you get to see 00:24:46.819 --> 00:24:50.259 that little frosted effect. So I like playing 00:24:50.259 --> 00:24:54.339 around with stuff like that. Okay, interesting. 00:24:54.539 --> 00:24:56.759 So you do everything yourself as well, just like 00:24:56.759 --> 00:25:02.920 Tesky. And what about you, Blaze? I have a 100 00:25:02.920 --> 00:25:09.819 % team behind me. are they in your head or yeah 00:25:09.819 --> 00:25:12.700 i'm 100 different people at once no no i'm same 00:25:12.700 --> 00:25:18.579 thing under just 100 myself um shortcut or davinci 00:25:18.579 --> 00:25:20.940 resolve depending on what i'm what computer i'm 00:25:20.940 --> 00:25:25.599 using um and i'm just like josh i got started 00:25:25.599 --> 00:25:29.259 kind of like looking out to find people that 00:25:29.259 --> 00:25:31.480 were interested in the same things as me because 00:25:31.480 --> 00:25:35.980 i don't meet them day to day generally um I met 00:25:35.980 --> 00:25:38.140 some guy one time at a cafe that was using Linux 00:25:38.140 --> 00:25:39.839 and I think he didn't even know he's using Linux. 00:25:39.940 --> 00:25:42.299 So it was, it was a very short conversation, 00:25:42.359 --> 00:25:46.819 but at least online I meet people that are kind 00:25:46.819 --> 00:25:50.660 of into this stuff. So, um, yeah, other than 00:25:50.660 --> 00:25:54.180 that, it's just learning as I go and, um, kind 00:25:54.180 --> 00:25:58.200 of starting with what I had for gear and, um, 00:25:58.440 --> 00:26:01.819 and upgrading from there. And I'm not like using 00:26:01.819 --> 00:26:03.839 any cinema cameras or anything like that. Like 00:26:03.839 --> 00:26:06.539 this is on a webcam. So, It's not like you need 00:26:06.539 --> 00:26:10.400 a crazy setup to get going with this YouTube 00:26:10.400 --> 00:26:16.440 thing. Okay. Yep. Same here. I have learned a 00:26:16.440 --> 00:26:19.460 lot of stuff. I didn't know anything about video 00:26:19.460 --> 00:26:23.259 editing. I'm learning as I create videos. I didn't 00:26:23.259 --> 00:26:26.880 know anything about YouTube cameras, nothing. 00:26:27.039 --> 00:26:29.700 This is my phone, my iPhone, the one that I use 00:26:29.700 --> 00:26:35.579 as the camera. But I have learned Discord. i 00:26:35.579 --> 00:26:38.119 didn't even know how to use discord so i had 00:26:38.119 --> 00:26:41.259 to create a server and uh all the permissions 00:26:41.259 --> 00:26:44.720 all that stuff podcast man i didn't know anything 00:26:44.720 --> 00:26:48.119 about podcast as well i did know about audio 00:26:48.119 --> 00:26:50.920 and that has helped me a lot because i play the 00:26:50.920 --> 00:26:53.680 guitar record a few songs when i was younger 00:26:53.680 --> 00:26:58.079 but um video i had no idea about it so i know 00:26:58.079 --> 00:27:01.200 about compression and i know how to play with 00:27:01.200 --> 00:27:05.140 audio a little bit but um Other than that, it's 00:27:05.140 --> 00:27:09.440 basically new for me. Also social media, right? 00:27:09.579 --> 00:27:14.400 Do you guys post in social media? Are you in 00:27:14.400 --> 00:27:18.640 all the different platforms? I'm on the platforms, 00:27:18.680 --> 00:27:22.319 I don't post. I just post simple things like 00:27:22.319 --> 00:27:25.380 what piques my interest and when I make new content. 00:27:25.700 --> 00:27:29.460 And I'm learning strategy, so I am hoping to 00:27:29.460 --> 00:27:31.660 grow my numbers. So there's some level of social 00:27:31.660 --> 00:27:36.519 media that contributes to that. Hmm. I use one 00:27:36.519 --> 00:27:39.839 of these tools. Um, what is it called? Metrical, 00:27:40.039 --> 00:27:44.480 which posts everywhere. Like you post it once 00:27:44.480 --> 00:27:47.140 and it has all your accounts connected and it 00:27:47.140 --> 00:27:51.680 posts it everywhere. No one gets my posts anyway. 00:27:51.799 --> 00:27:54.220 So I'm just posting for no reason, I guess, but 00:27:54.220 --> 00:27:58.140 I still do it. Right. So yeah. The algorithm 00:27:58.140 --> 00:28:02.460 man. Yeah. Was that called the posse method? 00:28:02.960 --> 00:28:05.079 Post once, syndicate everywhere or something 00:28:05.079 --> 00:28:08.619 like that? I have no idea. But the tool is called 00:28:08.619 --> 00:28:14.519 Metricool. Okay. Yep. So I think it's an interesting 00:28:14.519 --> 00:28:17.700 thing to bring up because social media is one 00:28:17.700 --> 00:28:21.359 of those beasts that wants to be fed. So you 00:28:21.359 --> 00:28:23.700 have to post multiple times a day typically for 00:28:23.700 --> 00:28:29.180 any of them to really gain traction. And I personally 00:28:29.180 --> 00:28:33.079 really enjoy my life and I don't... want to devote 00:28:33.079 --> 00:28:36.660 as much time as many people need to give in order 00:28:36.660 --> 00:28:39.839 for social media platforms to typically perform 00:28:39.839 --> 00:28:42.720 well. Although I'm starting to experiment with 00:28:42.720 --> 00:28:46.660 how much time can I spend and do something, you 00:28:46.660 --> 00:28:48.900 know, interesting, like I'm getting into YouTube 00:28:48.900 --> 00:28:51.920 shorts and TikToks. And so maybe it only takes 00:28:51.920 --> 00:28:53.880 an hour to make one and maybe that'll become 00:28:53.880 --> 00:28:56.119 30 minutes if I know what I'm doing and get better 00:28:56.119 --> 00:28:59.950 at it. But Most of them want multiple posts a 00:28:59.950 --> 00:29:04.490 day. And so I'm so far landing on, and you learned 00:29:04.490 --> 00:29:06.609 this about YouTube, Link, because you've been 00:29:06.609 --> 00:29:08.869 posting a lot. And so you'll probably see your 00:29:08.869 --> 00:29:11.529 growth because YouTube likes that you post a 00:29:11.529 --> 00:29:15.269 lot. And so I'm pretty intermittent, like Nico 00:29:15.269 --> 00:29:19.730 was talking about. I don't post super regularly, 00:29:19.769 --> 00:29:24.069 but I've decided at this point that my career 00:29:24.069 --> 00:29:27.819 and my salary job and my hobbies. you know, live 00:29:27.819 --> 00:29:30.579 at a certain level of commitment. And then YouTube 00:29:30.579 --> 00:29:34.920 is at a certain other level. So it's not the 00:29:34.920 --> 00:29:39.380 highest priority of my life, but it can be. And 00:29:39.380 --> 00:29:41.500 some people do spend a lot of their free time 00:29:41.500 --> 00:29:44.299 working very hard at building social media platforms. 00:29:44.420 --> 00:29:46.339 And they do well if they just keep showing up, 00:29:46.400 --> 00:29:51.920 you know, regularly. I post like maybe once on 00:29:51.920 --> 00:29:56.539 Twitter, I post the most once a day, maybe. sometimes 00:29:56.539 --> 00:30:00.859 twice a day or once every two days, but it's 00:30:00.859 --> 00:30:05.079 just too tiring. I don't know. I just, I'm more 00:30:05.079 --> 00:30:07.900 consistent in YouTube. And like Medesky said, 00:30:08.099 --> 00:30:12.880 the other ones want the same, right? So the other 00:30:12.880 --> 00:30:15.420 platforms want me to post a lot of times a day, 00:30:15.500 --> 00:30:18.279 and I just don't have the time and energy and 00:30:18.279 --> 00:30:21.619 creativity to be posting stuff consistently. 00:30:22.859 --> 00:30:25.480 I think it might even be like a, I'm sorry, Blaise, 00:30:25.539 --> 00:30:28.519 go ahead. No, no, you first. All right. Yeah, 00:30:28.559 --> 00:30:31.700 I was going to say, I think it might be like 00:30:31.700 --> 00:30:37.859 a platform for a person. Like I've seen people 00:30:37.859 --> 00:30:42.519 with a lot of followers on Twitter and they have 00:30:42.519 --> 00:30:45.259 a YouTube channel, but their YouTube is not performing 00:30:45.259 --> 00:30:49.779 as their Twitter. And likewise, like vice versa, 00:30:49.779 --> 00:30:52.759 there's YouTubers with like hundreds of thousands 00:30:52.759 --> 00:30:56.380 of subscribers, but on Twitter, they have like 00:30:56.380 --> 00:31:00.180 i don't know a couple thousand so it might be 00:31:00.180 --> 00:31:06.640 you as a person as a creator what platform resonates 00:31:06.640 --> 00:31:10.680 the most with you but i agree with with this 00:31:10.680 --> 00:31:12.660 can you you should just like pick one platform 00:31:12.660 --> 00:31:17.220 that you know uh you see the best results in 00:31:17.220 --> 00:31:21.180 and just like invest into that yeah yeah people 00:31:21.180 --> 00:31:24.700 like spend their whole lives essentially training 00:31:24.700 --> 00:31:27.920 an algorithm that they want to follow and, you 00:31:27.920 --> 00:31:30.279 know, building accounts and such like that. But 00:31:30.279 --> 00:31:32.680 yeah, I agree with you. I think that some people 00:31:32.680 --> 00:31:35.420 have more personality that's more tailored towards 00:31:35.420 --> 00:31:39.279 the camera or more tailored towards short form 00:31:39.279 --> 00:31:42.400 tweets or something like that. Right. So it really 00:31:42.400 --> 00:31:44.140 depends on the person. I was just going to say, 00:31:44.240 --> 00:31:47.599 I wrote a plugin in Emacs that whenever a thought 00:31:47.599 --> 00:31:50.579 comes into my mind, I just tweet it. From Emacs. 00:31:51.119 --> 00:31:56.420 From Emacs. That's fun. Okay. Good to know. And 00:31:56.420 --> 00:32:01.039 what else do we have here? Maybe I can lead you 00:32:01.039 --> 00:32:04.440 to the next topic. So we were talking about struggles, 00:32:04.559 --> 00:32:06.339 right? Struggles and keeping up to date with 00:32:06.339 --> 00:32:11.859 things. I think for me, I spend a lot of my time 00:32:11.859 --> 00:32:14.480 on YouTube land trying to make greenfield content, 00:32:14.619 --> 00:32:18.680 meaning can this thing just sort of last the 00:32:18.680 --> 00:32:20.779 test of time? It's not going to go out of date 00:32:20.779 --> 00:32:23.589 in six weeks because... That topic is just not 00:32:23.589 --> 00:32:26.769 a big deal anymore. And so with that, YouTube 00:32:26.769 --> 00:32:30.009 doesn't really care all that much to share that. 00:32:30.289 --> 00:32:32.670 It doesn't stand out in any unique way. It doesn't 00:32:32.670 --> 00:32:35.630 give them more ad revenue, you know, essentially. 00:32:36.690 --> 00:32:40.089 But I'm proud of that content because, you know, 00:32:40.109 --> 00:32:42.710 it's a 10 -year -old video and it's still relevant. 00:32:42.789 --> 00:32:45.289 It's still super helpful and provides value to 00:32:45.289 --> 00:32:49.500 people that are looking for it. There's a world 00:32:49.500 --> 00:32:52.039 of YouTube that they want to sensationalize everything. 00:32:52.240 --> 00:32:56.240 They want you to be weird or different or maybe 00:32:56.240 --> 00:33:01.960 even argumentative or something, right? If you 00:33:01.960 --> 00:33:06.019 can spur up emotions and you can evoke something 00:33:06.019 --> 00:33:09.940 out of people, it tends to create a lot of views. 00:33:10.299 --> 00:33:13.559 And we'll notice that in our own space, when 00:33:13.559 --> 00:33:15.299 we think about the people who have a million 00:33:15.299 --> 00:33:18.460 views that are doing NeoVim, They're kind of 00:33:18.460 --> 00:33:21.700 zany and they like to do pretty crazy stuff and 00:33:21.700 --> 00:33:25.119 be a little extra weird and that kind of thing. 00:33:25.599 --> 00:33:28.839 Or they just have, like we said, a giant personality. 00:33:29.359 --> 00:33:35.259 And good for them. I don't have anything against 00:33:35.259 --> 00:33:39.019 that. I just recognize that my viewership has 00:33:39.019 --> 00:33:43.700 been slowly growing. And maybe one day I'll experiment 00:33:43.700 --> 00:33:48.609 with trending news. some hot topic that the algorithm 00:33:48.609 --> 00:33:53.369 wants but because i don't really personally care 00:33:53.369 --> 00:33:57.210 all that much in trying to get that kind of content 00:33:57.210 --> 00:34:00.710 pushed out as quickly as possible um i just acknowledge 00:34:00.710 --> 00:34:04.809 that i'll grow people will find my content that 00:34:04.809 --> 00:34:07.970 want it and my subscribers i have loyal people 00:34:07.970 --> 00:34:09.510 i have people that want to watch all my videos 00:34:09.510 --> 00:34:13.460 and enjoy going to my live streams and I'm friends 00:34:13.460 --> 00:34:15.380 with most of them at this point. I've had personal 00:34:15.380 --> 00:34:18.699 conversations with many of them. So, you know, 00:34:18.719 --> 00:34:20.460 like we talked about earlier, it's just about 00:34:20.460 --> 00:34:22.760 your priorities. And if you want to be the next 00:34:22.760 --> 00:34:26.619 big thing, you can make the kind of content that 00:34:26.619 --> 00:34:29.699 the algorithm would want. Or you're a PewDiePie 00:34:29.699 --> 00:34:32.119 and you have a bazillion followers and then you 00:34:32.119 --> 00:34:34.860 start using Linux or something like that. Sure. 00:34:37.860 --> 00:34:41.539 That got me thinking of switching to Linux. Well, 00:34:41.559 --> 00:34:45.000 no. not switching but using linux as well i use 00:34:45.000 --> 00:34:47.659 it on servers only but i want to give it a try 00:34:47.659 --> 00:34:51.280 on the desktop computer and see what it's all 00:34:51.280 --> 00:34:55.059 about but um yep going back to the struggles 00:34:55.059 --> 00:35:01.300 what would you say yours are nikolov um i don't 00:35:01.300 --> 00:35:04.440 want to turn the youtube channel into a job and 00:35:04.440 --> 00:35:08.199 like suck the whole fun out of it that's why 00:35:08.199 --> 00:35:13.059 i i you know i don't look to post that regularly 00:35:13.059 --> 00:35:18.719 or I don't try to, you know, just cover anything 00:35:18.719 --> 00:35:22.119 like tech news and stuff like that, just so I 00:35:22.119 --> 00:35:24.340 can put out something, but it doesn't interest 00:35:24.340 --> 00:35:27.599 me. And like in life, there are moments, right? 00:35:28.480 --> 00:35:31.420 I used to be a lot more interested, for example, 00:35:31.420 --> 00:35:33.860 last year, but this year I'm kind of like slowing 00:35:33.860 --> 00:35:36.420 down, you know, a little bit. There's like some, 00:35:36.500 --> 00:35:42.269 you know, ups and downs. sometimes you are really 00:35:42.269 --> 00:35:45.829 into a lot of things and you want to cover them 00:35:45.829 --> 00:35:48.789 on youtube sometimes you just you know want to 00:35:48.789 --> 00:35:51.969 get the job done and you know just enjoy your 00:35:51.969 --> 00:35:54.710 life off camera so that's where i'm at at the 00:35:54.710 --> 00:35:57.789 moment that's where i'm at the moment and i'm 00:35:57.789 --> 00:36:01.110 perfectly fine even if my views are tanking if 00:36:01.110 --> 00:36:04.650 the subscribers are you know uh the people don't 00:36:04.650 --> 00:36:08.289 uh stop let me just stop subscribing etc it's 00:36:08.289 --> 00:36:11.889 perfectly fine i don't If I try to chase that, 00:36:12.150 --> 00:36:15.710 I'm not going to be fun anymore. So I already 00:36:15.710 --> 00:36:19.349 have one job. I don't want two jobs. So I'm going 00:36:19.349 --> 00:36:25.090 to keep this fun and keep my job a job. Okay, 00:36:25.150 --> 00:36:28.570 interesting. What about you, Blaise? No, I think 00:36:28.570 --> 00:36:31.949 both perspectives are exactly where I'm as well. 00:36:32.070 --> 00:36:34.130 Like I'm not trying to make my YouTube channel 00:36:34.130 --> 00:36:36.429 a job or anything like that. And I don't want 00:36:36.429 --> 00:36:39.449 to like... make content that doesn't actually 00:36:39.449 --> 00:36:43.269 resonate with who I am as a person. So when I'm, 00:36:43.269 --> 00:36:46.050 when I'm putting videos out there, like it's 00:36:46.050 --> 00:36:48.590 something that I'm interested about in that moment. 00:36:48.869 --> 00:36:52.510 And it's something that it's, um, I just hope 00:36:52.510 --> 00:36:54.409 other people potentially are interested in it. 00:36:54.489 --> 00:36:57.269 And I learn a lot from the comments from things 00:36:57.269 --> 00:36:59.989 that I post too. about like how people do different 00:36:59.989 --> 00:37:03.190 things and how I'm an idiot most of the time 00:37:03.190 --> 00:37:06.309 and stuff like that too. So it's actually very 00:37:06.309 --> 00:37:10.929 helpful for me to post a video and use it as 00:37:10.929 --> 00:37:16.190 a learning tool for my own growth in all the 00:37:16.190 --> 00:37:19.289 things that I do. I think that that is really 00:37:19.289 --> 00:37:21.949 something that's surprised me about YouTube is 00:37:21.949 --> 00:37:25.130 that it's become this thing that has helped me 00:37:25.130 --> 00:37:28.739 to grow as a person and learn. um more than anything 00:37:28.739 --> 00:37:31.860 else that i've done in recent memory um and and 00:37:31.860 --> 00:37:34.860 i i agree with josh about like chasing content 00:37:34.860 --> 00:37:37.869 and stuff like that i think that um focusing 00:37:37.869 --> 00:37:39.769 on like first principles and things that are 00:37:39.769 --> 00:37:42.429 going to be around in 20 years is much more valuable 00:37:42.429 --> 00:37:45.630 than, oh, the hottest new plugin came out. Oh, 00:37:45.750 --> 00:37:48.550 like what's, what's the latest tweet? Like you 00:37:48.550 --> 00:37:51.210 turn into a schizophrenic trying to chase all 00:37:51.210 --> 00:37:53.750 of that sort of thing. Whereas if you're focused 00:37:53.750 --> 00:37:56.570 on what has always been and will always be, that's 00:37:56.570 --> 00:37:59.869 much more valuable, I think, to people in the 00:37:59.869 --> 00:38:03.570 longterm. Yep. And that's. A question that I 00:38:03.570 --> 00:38:06.750 added there, or a topic that I added, since Medesky 00:38:06.750 --> 00:38:09.590 brought it up, greenfield content, is that the 00:38:09.590 --> 00:38:11.929 way that it's known, greenfield, that it's going 00:38:11.929 --> 00:38:15.150 to basically... It's a term for something that, 00:38:15.190 --> 00:38:18.030 yeah, that can kind of last the test of time. 00:38:18.849 --> 00:38:22.090 Evergreen content, I think, is a better term. 00:38:22.849 --> 00:38:24.409 Greenfield might not be right. It's always green. 00:38:24.610 --> 00:38:28.389 It's always good. Yeah. What are your thoughts 00:38:28.389 --> 00:38:31.210 on the channels that just cover news, right? 00:38:31.309 --> 00:38:34.909 They cover the latest all the time. You're always 00:38:34.909 --> 00:38:37.190 going to have content, right? And I see those 00:38:37.190 --> 00:38:39.889 are really popular. Have you guys thought about 00:38:39.889 --> 00:38:42.909 that or you want to keep doing this type of thing? 00:38:42.949 --> 00:38:46.630 I think it's a good point because I naturally 00:38:46.630 --> 00:38:50.449 gravitate toward you should see my GitHub. inbox 00:38:50.449 --> 00:38:52.789 right it's of all the latest releases of all 00:38:52.789 --> 00:38:55.829 the software so i'm pretty active in my email 00:38:55.829 --> 00:38:58.070 inbox and all of that i'm an active person i 00:38:58.070 --> 00:39:01.730 very much care about emerging technologies and 00:39:01.730 --> 00:39:04.309 i'm a trendsetter in some ways what do we call 00:39:04.309 --> 00:39:08.369 early adopter so like i bought a i bought a vision 00:39:08.369 --> 00:39:11.530 pro the day it came out and then returned it 00:39:11.530 --> 00:39:13.010 in a couple of weeks i don't think it was quite 00:39:13.010 --> 00:39:15.130 ready but it was like let me go to the apple 00:39:15.130 --> 00:39:16.690 store and let me see what this is like on day 00:39:16.690 --> 00:39:20.820 one so i am someone who enjoys the latest and 00:39:20.820 --> 00:39:23.500 greatest. And my YouTube feed is some of the 00:39:23.500 --> 00:39:26.659 latest and greatest things. I've just learned 00:39:26.659 --> 00:39:29.800 not to kind of engage in the rat race of, okay, 00:39:29.900 --> 00:39:32.719 I just got the news. You know, Raycast launched 00:39:32.719 --> 00:39:35.199 a new feature. Can I ship a video in the next 00:39:35.199 --> 00:39:37.320 24 hours? Well, guess what? That video probably 00:39:37.320 --> 00:39:41.820 is going to do well. I just have felt less interested 00:39:41.820 --> 00:39:45.099 in making that be what guides my content for 00:39:45.099 --> 00:39:48.920 now. Maybe there can be a thrill to it or something 00:39:48.920 --> 00:39:52.000 interesting. I do have a unique voice and a lot 00:39:52.000 --> 00:39:54.239 of experience. And Link, I want to ask you a 00:39:54.239 --> 00:39:56.219 similar question. You didn't really answer the 00:39:56.219 --> 00:40:01.340 last question. I spent about 10 years doing Vim, 00:40:01.340 --> 00:40:05.059 right? I'm a pretty seasoned guy now. And so 00:40:05.059 --> 00:40:08.139 my content is driven toward what is all of my 00:40:08.139 --> 00:40:10.340 wisdom from all my years of experience, right? 00:40:10.400 --> 00:40:13.300 That's how I see my content come across. And 00:40:13.300 --> 00:40:16.079 you, on the other hand, are newer to this technology. 00:40:16.300 --> 00:40:19.519 So a lot of your videos are like, I've just discovered 00:40:19.519 --> 00:40:21.760 this or I'm learning something for the first 00:40:21.760 --> 00:40:25.139 time. And I want to share my journey on how this 00:40:25.139 --> 00:40:28.239 stuff works and my knowledge in it. And I like 00:40:28.239 --> 00:40:31.019 following your channel because I get to see a 00:40:31.019 --> 00:40:34.460 different perspective. So how has that been for 00:40:34.460 --> 00:40:36.260 you? Let me throw a question your way. How has 00:40:36.260 --> 00:40:38.239 that been for you to say, I don't really know 00:40:38.239 --> 00:40:40.690 all this stuff yet. I'm going to just throw it 00:40:40.690 --> 00:40:42.369 out there and I'm going to see what the YouTube 00:40:42.369 --> 00:40:44.289 algorithm has to say and what people have to 00:40:44.289 --> 00:40:47.849 say about my content as you are sort of emerging 00:40:47.849 --> 00:40:51.949 in this technology. Yeah, just like Joshua, the 00:40:51.949 --> 00:40:54.929 other Josh said, just like Blaze said, right? 00:40:55.010 --> 00:40:59.989 So it has helped me to learn a lot of stuff. 00:41:00.170 --> 00:41:02.269 Let me give you an example, right? The Flash 00:41:02.269 --> 00:41:05.909 plugin, which allows you to jump between different 00:41:05.909 --> 00:41:12.369 places, right? I learned a trick about that plugin. 00:41:13.130 --> 00:41:16.849 Let me see. Let me see if I can show this real 00:41:16.849 --> 00:41:21.309 quick. Hold on. But people always go to comments 00:41:21.309 --> 00:41:25.469 and teach you stuff, which is great, you know? 00:41:26.150 --> 00:41:31.789 Yeah. Because in a video that I did, I don't 00:41:31.789 --> 00:41:35.510 know, a weeks ago with Maria Solano, she showed 00:41:35.510 --> 00:41:38.960 me this thing. So let's say that I want to. add 00:41:38.960 --> 00:41:43.079 this word here search in inline code right i 00:41:43.079 --> 00:41:47.559 usually used to go there and add the word and 00:41:47.559 --> 00:41:51.380 then jump back i wasted a lot of time right so 00:41:51.380 --> 00:41:55.480 she told me you can do this gsa to add us around 00:41:55.480 --> 00:41:58.420 and i can use the remote thing here right so 00:41:58.420 --> 00:42:01.659 if i type r this flash is going to show up so 00:42:01.659 --> 00:42:06.679 if i type se a right i have this word now right 00:42:06.679 --> 00:42:11.980 so if i do here fiw is going to select that word 00:42:11.980 --> 00:42:16.860 right fiw and now i get this enter output surrounding 00:42:16.860 --> 00:42:20.300 identifier right so i'm gonna type the tilde 00:42:20.300 --> 00:42:24.059 here and notice that it added it remotely and 00:42:24.059 --> 00:42:27.179 it jumped back automatically so i was like man 00:42:27.179 --> 00:42:29.739 this is great i'm gonna create a video out of 00:42:29.739 --> 00:42:33.199 this and um i posted it right then in the comments 00:42:33.199 --> 00:42:37.650 a lot of people i mean a lot were like man You 00:42:37.650 --> 00:42:40.170 should do control O, right? To jump back instead 00:42:40.170 --> 00:42:43.269 of doing this. This is anti -pattern. I don't 00:42:43.269 --> 00:42:47.690 know. And I was like, okay, let me go and see 00:42:47.690 --> 00:42:50.650 what control O, because I did use control O, 00:42:50.769 --> 00:42:53.849 but not within the same file, just the jumper 00:42:53.849 --> 00:42:58.230 bound files, right? So I did my research and 00:42:58.230 --> 00:43:01.289 now that's what I'm doing. I'm using control 00:43:01.289 --> 00:43:04.750 O, control I a lot. I'm using the jump list and 00:43:04.750 --> 00:43:07.940 I created a video about it. you know like two 00:43:07.940 --> 00:43:13.199 days ago so I'm just learning I'm no expert at 00:43:13.199 --> 00:43:16.039 all and I always say it you know people know 00:43:16.039 --> 00:43:19.199 it and uh they're gonna correct me a lot of times 00:43:19.199 --> 00:43:22.000 and I'm like okay interesting but they have to 00:43:22.000 --> 00:43:25.760 say I research if I like it I make a video about 00:43:25.760 --> 00:43:30.300 it so I don't know I use it to learn stuff people 00:43:30.300 --> 00:43:33.179 always like to give advice on YouTube I don't 00:43:33.179 --> 00:43:35.550 know if That's what happens with you guys. You 00:43:35.550 --> 00:43:40.070 get free consulting. It's true. And I think it's 00:43:40.070 --> 00:43:42.730 almost better to do like how I do something versus 00:43:42.730 --> 00:43:45.250 this is how you do something. Instead of like 00:43:45.250 --> 00:43:48.010 posting as an authority, it's like, this is how 00:43:48.010 --> 00:43:50.429 I actually do something. And that's what you 00:43:50.429 --> 00:43:52.449 invite those comments. And they're like, hey, 00:43:52.530 --> 00:43:56.519 idiot. josh like what are you doing like you 00:43:56.519 --> 00:43:59.000 could be doing something so much better or you 00:43:59.000 --> 00:44:00.780 could be you're wasting so much time here you 00:44:00.780 --> 00:44:02.679 go right and it's actually it's very helpful 00:44:02.679 --> 00:44:05.639 right like i i don't really take comments that 00:44:05.639 --> 00:44:07.960 are some people would say are critical comments 00:44:07.960 --> 00:44:11.199 i almost take them just as uh feedback and like 00:44:11.199 --> 00:44:14.960 oh my my mic's not picking up correctly okay 00:44:14.960 --> 00:44:16.960 for my next video i'll make sure that it's picking 00:44:16.960 --> 00:44:21.059 up correctly right um it's it's i think that 00:44:21.059 --> 00:44:23.050 that's kind of the thing that's really shown 00:44:23.050 --> 00:44:25.289 me too about the comments is that they're generally 00:44:25.289 --> 00:44:27.489 they're not like malicious comments is generally 00:44:27.489 --> 00:44:31.610 people that are trying to help um and it makes 00:44:31.610 --> 00:44:35.590 me better in in things that i'm doing you kind 00:44:35.590 --> 00:44:38.389 of answered the last question that link added 00:44:38.389 --> 00:44:44.349 in the list yep we'll get back to it again no 00:44:44.349 --> 00:44:48.550 you can you can go ahead no i was talking about 00:44:48.550 --> 00:44:50.829 that we answered the last question that you added 00:44:50.829 --> 00:44:53.519 in the lists You don't remember which one was 00:44:53.519 --> 00:44:57.420 it? The news one? What are your thoughts on creating 00:44:57.420 --> 00:45:02.380 evergreen content or news? No, the last one at 00:45:02.380 --> 00:45:04.780 the bottom of the file. Go to the bottom of the 00:45:04.780 --> 00:45:08.840 file. Oh, the one at the very bottom. We actually 00:45:08.840 --> 00:45:14.059 answered that indirectly. Nice. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:45:14.440 --> 00:45:15.760 That's why I don't have a script on any of my 00:45:15.760 --> 00:45:19.699 videos. No? Yeah. No script. Do you guys do script? 00:45:19.860 --> 00:45:24.780 What about you, Medesky? Not often. No, maybe 00:45:24.780 --> 00:45:27.159 for an intro if I'm trying to do a more professional 00:45:27.159 --> 00:45:30.079 kind of video, but I tend to make bullet points. 00:45:31.699 --> 00:45:35.579 I usually write a blog post first and then after 00:45:35.579 --> 00:45:37.880 that I make a video and then like I never looked 00:45:37.880 --> 00:45:39.920 at the blog post. I just like kind of go off 00:45:39.920 --> 00:45:42.199 of what I had written about and I always miss 00:45:42.199 --> 00:45:44.840 stuff, but it generally like gives me the pattern 00:45:44.840 --> 00:45:48.599 of what I'm making a video about. I seem to be 00:45:48.599 --> 00:45:51.340 like a writer first and then a video person second. 00:45:52.500 --> 00:45:57.340 I've done the opposite recently, though. I will 00:45:57.340 --> 00:46:00.159 record a video and then I'll transcribe it and 00:46:00.159 --> 00:46:02.440 then I'll convert it into a readable blog post 00:46:02.440 --> 00:46:06.340 by adding headings and maybe removing whatever 00:46:06.340 --> 00:46:10.639 feels like it's audio only. So one of my recent 00:46:10.639 --> 00:46:13.840 posts, you watch the video and as you scroll 00:46:13.840 --> 00:46:15.420 through the blog post, you'll be like, this is 00:46:15.420 --> 00:46:18.039 exactly the same thing. It's just a transfer 00:46:18.039 --> 00:46:22.980 of it. So that's funny. I have some thoughts 00:46:22.980 --> 00:46:26.500 there. I did try that, you know, blog post first, 00:46:26.860 --> 00:46:30.219 video later, then video first, blog post later. 00:46:30.380 --> 00:46:33.059 And I just have to choose one of the two, right? 00:46:33.159 --> 00:46:35.159 I cannot do both because it takes a lot of time. 00:46:35.300 --> 00:46:39.739 So what I'm focusing on right now is if I have 00:46:39.739 --> 00:46:43.500 an idea, I create the video in 30 minutes. If 00:46:43.500 --> 00:46:46.400 it's a 15 minute video, 30 minutes, I'm done 00:46:46.400 --> 00:46:50.179 recording. I don't do much fancy editing, just. 00:46:50.539 --> 00:46:53.679 cut the stuff that I don't need and upload. And 00:46:53.679 --> 00:46:57.440 I should create more blog posts. I did create 00:46:57.440 --> 00:47:01.440 a few, which are very involved, but it takes 00:47:01.440 --> 00:47:03.980 a lot of time. And my hands hurt. If you write 00:47:03.980 --> 00:47:08.300 a lot, your hands hurt. So I'm like, I'm just 00:47:08.300 --> 00:47:12.579 doing videos at the moment. Yeah. That's all 00:47:12.579 --> 00:47:18.400 right. All right. And let's see what else. What 00:47:18.400 --> 00:47:26.150 else? Greenfield, Evergreen. How do you feel 00:47:26.150 --> 00:47:30.550 about that term? Tech influencer or YouTuber? 00:47:30.690 --> 00:47:34.530 I don't know. They call us different ways. It's 00:47:34.530 --> 00:47:39.929 pretty cringe. Yeah. Which one? I said it's pretty 00:47:39.929 --> 00:47:46.090 cringe. Yeah. TechTubers. I don't know. What 00:47:46.090 --> 00:47:48.409 are your thoughts? What do you think there, Medesky? 00:47:49.779 --> 00:47:52.840 Yeah, I don't feel so strongly about it. I used 00:47:52.840 --> 00:47:56.219 to be an entertainer. We were talking about music 00:47:56.219 --> 00:48:01.219 earlier before the call. I've been in the space 00:48:01.219 --> 00:48:03.480 where you're a public figure and people know 00:48:03.480 --> 00:48:07.139 you as a public figure. So it hasn't really bothered 00:48:07.139 --> 00:48:09.780 me. I don't think too strongly about it. I don't 00:48:09.780 --> 00:48:11.619 really care. I'm happy to tell people I have 00:48:11.619 --> 00:48:14.099 a YouTube channel. And if they want to ask me 00:48:14.099 --> 00:48:15.860 more questions, I'm happy to talk to them about 00:48:15.860 --> 00:48:20.739 it. But nothing. No strong emotions are evoked 00:48:20.739 --> 00:48:25.940 by asking that question. I enjoy sharing my knowledge, 00:48:26.079 --> 00:48:29.639 and that's about the extent of my caring about 00:48:29.639 --> 00:48:33.460 the terms. Again, not looking to be rich and 00:48:33.460 --> 00:48:37.760 famous from this, but I am enjoying being someone 00:48:37.760 --> 00:48:40.480 of influence because I would like to think that 00:48:40.480 --> 00:48:42.900 my opinion on certain things matter only because 00:48:42.900 --> 00:48:46.480 I've spent an enormous amount of time. thinking 00:48:46.480 --> 00:48:49.340 and working on these topics so to some extent 00:48:49.340 --> 00:48:53.159 i enjoy being influential in some ways but not 00:48:53.159 --> 00:48:57.820 really looking to like gain some credit or something 00:48:57.820 --> 00:49:01.480 from from people because of it what about you 00:49:01.480 --> 00:49:06.500 nikolov i don't think i'm influential honestly 00:49:06.500 --> 00:49:09.480 like it's just yeah you have the most subscribers 00:49:09.480 --> 00:49:13.349 here you have what 10 000 right now so You are 00:49:13.349 --> 00:49:16.510 closing in on 13 ,000? I don't know. You're the 00:49:16.510 --> 00:49:22.230 most influential. 12 .8, yeah. But I don't know. 00:49:22.289 --> 00:49:25.590 I don't like to think that I'm influential. I 00:49:25.590 --> 00:49:28.789 like to think that I share stuff and some people 00:49:28.789 --> 00:49:33.730 find that cool. But I don't do that thing like, 00:49:33.789 --> 00:49:37.110 this is how you do it. That's influential, right? 00:49:37.909 --> 00:49:41.019 Maybe I do. I don't know. But I don't like to 00:49:41.019 --> 00:49:45.059 think I don't think that you know, I am Influential 00:49:45.059 --> 00:49:47.719 in that way youtuber. Why not a person with a 00:49:47.719 --> 00:49:50.480 YouTube channel? That's that's perfectly fine. 00:49:50.760 --> 00:49:56.139 But I don't think I can influence You know a 00:49:56.139 --> 00:50:00.679 group of people and say You should do this and 00:50:00.679 --> 00:50:03.920 they're all gonna do that Inspire would be the 00:50:03.920 --> 00:50:07.800 right word Inspire. Yes. Yeah, but influence 00:50:07.800 --> 00:50:12.150 influence is like you know yeah grab them by 00:50:12.150 --> 00:50:14.449 the hands and influence them like make them i 00:50:14.449 --> 00:50:18.409 don't think i i have that power the term's kind 00:50:18.409 --> 00:50:21.190 of been co -opted in the social media space i 00:50:21.190 --> 00:50:23.949 think a little bit So it's kind of like cringe 00:50:23.949 --> 00:50:27.909 to think I'm an influencer. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. 00:50:28.590 --> 00:50:31.030 No, that's, I don't know. Like, sure. I have 00:50:31.030 --> 00:50:33.570 a YouTube channel. I'm very much about like not 00:50:33.570 --> 00:50:36.929 putting labels on myself. Like people are going 00:50:36.929 --> 00:50:39.650 to label me regardless of what I do. So it's, 00:50:39.650 --> 00:50:42.630 it is, I have a YouTube channel. Am I a YouTuber? 00:50:42.989 --> 00:50:45.730 I don't know. I guess. Am I an influencer? I 00:50:45.730 --> 00:50:48.050 don't think I influence anybody. I mean, I have 00:50:48.050 --> 00:50:49.909 influenced a couple of people to switch to Emacs. 00:50:51.150 --> 00:50:54.269 There's that. There's that. So I suppose. But 00:50:54.269 --> 00:50:57.130 at the end of the day, the term for me is a little 00:50:57.130 --> 00:51:00.730 bit cringe. Yeah. Yeah. Same here. I just say 00:51:00.730 --> 00:51:02.929 I have a YouTube channel, basically. I don't 00:51:02.929 --> 00:51:07.389 know what my family thinks, you know. They have 00:51:07.389 --> 00:51:10.289 no idea what I'm talking about. You know, my 00:51:10.289 --> 00:51:13.510 mom, dad, brothers, they're like, what is this 00:51:13.510 --> 00:51:16.570 guy doing? Like, what is he talking about? They 00:51:16.570 --> 00:51:20.320 have no idea. Nobody has an idea. So I just say 00:51:20.320 --> 00:51:23.340 I have a YouTube channel. I don't consider myself 00:51:23.340 --> 00:51:26.159 a YouTuber. I don't like the term too much. I 00:51:26.159 --> 00:51:28.019 don't care. You know, people are going to call 00:51:28.019 --> 00:51:30.880 you whatever they want. So, you know, either 00:51:30.880 --> 00:51:37.099 way. Yep. And what about bad experiences? Have 00:51:37.099 --> 00:51:41.199 you had bad experiences? I don't know. YouTube, 00:51:41.519 --> 00:51:44.619 Reddit. How do you handle that? Let's go with 00:51:44.619 --> 00:51:52.599 Medesky. I was a part of a project that I ended 00:51:52.599 --> 00:51:54.360 up abandoning or leaving the project because 00:51:54.360 --> 00:51:58.420 I didn't really agree with the direction they 00:51:58.420 --> 00:52:00.840 were going with the project. And that bit me 00:52:00.840 --> 00:52:03.760 a bit later where some nasty people on, I think 00:52:03.760 --> 00:52:07.039 it was Twitter, were pretty rotten. So that was 00:52:07.039 --> 00:52:10.150 unexpected. But again, I was like... Am I going 00:52:10.150 --> 00:52:12.309 to carry this with me? No, because I actually 00:52:12.309 --> 00:52:14.469 left for the same reasons why they're mad and 00:52:14.469 --> 00:52:17.409 being nasty online. So I really only had one 00:52:17.409 --> 00:52:19.469 experience like that where it was like kind of 00:52:19.469 --> 00:52:23.269 nasty people coming out of the woodworking and, 00:52:23.289 --> 00:52:26.530 you know, trying to personally attack me. So 00:52:26.530 --> 00:52:29.949 that's good. It was unexpected. But in general, 00:52:30.090 --> 00:52:33.289 you do get weird, shady comments that tend to 00:52:33.289 --> 00:52:36.929 not be personal at all. It's like they just. 00:52:37.900 --> 00:52:39.840 got on the wrong side of the bed or whatever 00:52:39.840 --> 00:52:43.579 don't really know what it is but um again i think 00:52:43.579 --> 00:52:46.699 because a lot of my content's evergreen right 00:52:46.699 --> 00:52:50.000 we're using that term uh i don't get a lot of 00:52:50.000 --> 00:52:53.340 like really hard opinions or you're wrong and 00:52:53.340 --> 00:52:56.519 you shouldn't be saying this or you made a mistake 00:52:56.519 --> 00:52:58.559 and this is incorrect or you know they're not 00:52:58.559 --> 00:53:01.239 very many people correcting me in my comments 00:53:02.219 --> 00:53:04.940 A lot of the things I try to do are to bring 00:53:04.940 --> 00:53:07.780 value. So I mostly get gratitude in my comments. 00:53:08.000 --> 00:53:10.579 Occasionally I get the feedback you guys were 00:53:10.579 --> 00:53:12.800 talking about. Like, hey, you should maybe try 00:53:12.800 --> 00:53:16.179 to do this instead. But because a lot of my content 00:53:16.179 --> 00:53:18.980 is centralized around the things that I've built, 00:53:19.340 --> 00:53:26.559 it's hard to have a reason to be nasty. But I 00:53:26.559 --> 00:53:28.739 think that's the main reason that I look away 00:53:28.739 --> 00:53:32.039 from this sensationalized content. It's because 00:53:32.039 --> 00:53:35.800 you just end up breeding pretty nasty, toxic 00:53:35.800 --> 00:53:39.340 people just out of the way that the algorithms 00:53:39.340 --> 00:53:41.659 work. It's like you're going to draw in a crowd 00:53:41.659 --> 00:53:45.340 and half the crowd might be disagreeing with 00:53:45.340 --> 00:53:47.500 you completely and not like you. And the other 00:53:47.500 --> 00:53:49.559 half might love you and adore you and think that 00:53:49.559 --> 00:53:51.480 you're the most influential person to them, right? 00:53:51.719 --> 00:53:53.960 So I'm not looking for that. So thankfully it 00:53:53.960 --> 00:53:58.539 hasn't come very often. Okay. What about you, 00:53:58.559 --> 00:54:02.670 Nikola? That's a good point, Josh. I have pretty 00:54:02.670 --> 00:54:05.449 much the same experience, and especially the 00:54:05.449 --> 00:54:09.969 last thing that you mentioned, just like bringing 00:54:09.969 --> 00:54:13.510 other types of audience to your channel that 00:54:13.510 --> 00:54:18.789 is not usually part of your regulars. That was 00:54:18.789 --> 00:54:22.889 the case with my BenQ review video, and this 00:54:22.889 --> 00:54:26.110 is this monitor right here. So I reviewed it 00:54:26.110 --> 00:54:28.110 like, okay, here's the monitor. I don't even 00:54:28.110 --> 00:54:30.590 like... I didn't even mention all of the most 00:54:30.590 --> 00:54:33.530 important bits. I just talked about the monitor 00:54:33.530 --> 00:54:37.289 the way that I liked it, you know, for the features 00:54:37.289 --> 00:54:40.730 that matter to me. That was so subtle. Was that? 00:54:40.949 --> 00:54:44.110 That was so subtle, the product placement. Yeah, 00:54:44.150 --> 00:54:48.750 I mean, I just said, yeah. I reviewed the video 00:54:48.750 --> 00:54:52.150 and I mean, I posted the video and people were 00:54:52.150 --> 00:54:54.949 like, I know they're not talking to me because 00:54:54.949 --> 00:54:57.130 I'm not BenQ. I didn't invent this monitor, right? 00:54:58.019 --> 00:55:01.920 And they're like, I don't know how many, I even 00:55:01.920 --> 00:55:04.980 forgot the cost of the monitor, like $700 for 00:55:04.980 --> 00:55:08.519 60 hertz monitor and stuff like that. So they're 00:55:08.519 --> 00:55:11.840 just like, you know, throwing tomatoes at the 00:55:11.840 --> 00:55:17.880 monitor. But I'm like, the monitor is fine. I 00:55:17.880 --> 00:55:22.610 don't need like 120 hertz. to look at NeoVim. 00:55:23.530 --> 00:55:27.809 So it's perfect. It is perfect for work, good 00:55:27.809 --> 00:55:31.030 aspect ratio, et cetera. But yeah, my point is 00:55:31.030 --> 00:55:34.409 that with that video, I kind of drew in different 00:55:34.409 --> 00:55:38.710 type of crowds, not necessarily like programmers, 00:55:39.130 --> 00:55:41.369 but just like people looking to buy monitors. 00:55:42.269 --> 00:55:47.599 And like 90 % of them were gaming. they wanted 00:55:47.599 --> 00:55:51.420 to buy like a monitor for gaming and they just 00:55:51.420 --> 00:55:54.219 started throwing tomatoes straight out the door 00:55:54.219 --> 00:55:58.980 when they heard that it's not a 120 hertz so 00:55:58.980 --> 00:56:02.619 i'm like okay i don't know what to say to you 00:56:02.619 --> 00:56:04.639 you know like i don't i don't know what to reply 00:56:04.639 --> 00:56:07.019 this is a business monitor but i didn't invent 00:56:07.019 --> 00:56:10.860 it i didn't that was not my decision to put 60 00:56:10.860 --> 00:56:14.079 hertz only and stuff like that so like I'm just 00:56:14.079 --> 00:56:17.079 going to leave that video aside and maybe not 00:56:17.079 --> 00:56:23.000 do a hardware review ever again. Now, I want 00:56:23.000 --> 00:56:26.860 my BenQ monitor. How do I get it? They reach 00:56:26.860 --> 00:56:32.320 out? Do I have to create a video? Yeah, that's 00:56:32.320 --> 00:56:35.019 how it works. They reach out. They reach out. 00:56:35.119 --> 00:56:39.760 So they find popular channels. Okay, so I have 00:56:39.760 --> 00:56:43.139 to prepare myself. For the hate that is going 00:56:43.139 --> 00:56:47.199 to come. Because you know what? My wife needs 00:56:47.199 --> 00:56:50.820 a monitor, right? So I could give her this monitor. 00:56:51.179 --> 00:56:56.460 Strategically, yeah. There you go. And I just 00:56:56.460 --> 00:57:01.800 want to thank the sponsor of this video. Don't 00:57:01.800 --> 00:57:10.780 start doing mobile gaming. Notice me. Yeah. What 00:57:10.780 --> 00:57:13.599 about you, Blaze? How has your experience been 00:57:13.599 --> 00:57:17.320 with... Yeah. No, no, pretty, like, generally 00:57:17.320 --> 00:57:19.420 pretty good. Like, if I ever get a bad comment, 00:57:19.480 --> 00:57:24.239 I almost always hit the person with, like, kindness 00:57:24.239 --> 00:57:27.159 instead of, you know, like, it's that meme where 00:57:27.159 --> 00:57:29.559 you, like, try to, like, somebody messages you, 00:57:29.639 --> 00:57:31.320 like, the most horrible thing and you, like, 00:57:31.320 --> 00:57:34.320 respond with, like, I love you. It's kind of, 00:57:34.320 --> 00:57:36.880 like, that's always been my philosophy about 00:57:36.880 --> 00:57:39.340 this sort of thing. So it's kind of... I don't 00:57:39.340 --> 00:57:41.340 know. I almost enjoy it when I get that. I don't 00:57:41.340 --> 00:57:43.059 really get any hate comments or anything like 00:57:43.059 --> 00:57:44.860 that. And to be honest with you, like, I think 00:57:44.860 --> 00:57:47.440 that the, the emails and stuff that I get from 00:57:47.440 --> 00:57:49.199 people that are like, thank you so much for like 00:57:49.199 --> 00:57:52.739 this piece that you wrote or something that just 00:57:52.739 --> 00:57:55.480 blows out of the water, any sort of negative. 00:57:56.250 --> 00:57:59.050 feedback i've ever gotten right so and i mean 00:57:59.050 --> 00:58:01.590 i i put my i put my hat in the ring as an emacs 00:58:01.590 --> 00:58:03.489 guy so i have the neo vimmers that are trying 00:58:03.489 --> 00:58:05.269 to come in and convert me back and everything 00:58:05.269 --> 00:58:07.630 but it's it's all in good fun right it's not 00:58:07.630 --> 00:58:10.510 like right it's not uh it's not like we're hating 00:58:10.510 --> 00:58:13.389 on each other actual war or anything i mean some 00:58:13.389 --> 00:58:15.889 people would say that but not not me at least 00:58:15.889 --> 00:58:19.949 yeah yeah so let me show you guys something i 00:58:19.949 --> 00:58:22.750 don't get a lot of hate in youtube you know there's 00:58:22.750 --> 00:58:25.519 a few comments here and there you know happens 00:58:25.519 --> 00:58:29.179 all the time right but in reddit man reddit is 00:58:29.179 --> 00:58:33.079 kind of wild sometimes does that affect me but 00:58:33.079 --> 00:58:37.260 it gets crazy sometimes i posted this video which 00:58:37.260 --> 00:58:39.800 i consider is a pretty good video you know i 00:58:39.800 --> 00:58:42.079 just shared my setup and all that stuff i created 00:58:42.079 --> 00:58:45.440 a blog post but then man the reddit people came 00:58:45.440 --> 00:58:52.019 after me um like this comment 86 downvotes like 00:58:53.199 --> 00:58:57.960 I had, like, links to my social platforms and 00:58:57.960 --> 00:59:02.360 some 1Password affiliate link at the top. And 00:59:02.360 --> 00:59:05.739 I had images in the video. Man, people just lost 00:59:05.739 --> 00:59:09.659 it. Got really upset. 86 downvotes in this one. 00:59:10.139 --> 00:59:13.840 78 downvotes. Just type here, you found it already, 00:59:14.079 --> 00:59:19.559 you know? Reddit's a different beast. Yeah. Are 00:59:19.559 --> 00:59:23.139 you guys in Reddit? I actually started posting 00:59:23.139 --> 00:59:26.800 as myself on Reddit. I posted an Emacs article 00:59:26.800 --> 00:59:29.119 that I wrote into the Emacs subreddit and actually 00:59:29.119 --> 00:59:34.300 got good, like pretty good uptake. Like the amount 00:59:34.300 --> 00:59:37.079 of visitors and stuff to my site was pretty incredible. 00:59:37.119 --> 00:59:40.420 But at the same time, I'm sure I'm one step away 00:59:40.420 --> 00:59:44.880 from exactly what you just experienced. Yeah, 00:59:44.920 --> 00:59:50.760 it's crazy. Okay, moving on then. Work -life 00:59:50.760 --> 00:59:53.159 balance. What do you want to say there, Josh? 00:59:53.420 --> 01:00:00.059 Well, Medesky. Yeah, so I think this is really 01:00:00.059 --> 01:00:03.260 important to me. This is why it's easy for me 01:00:03.260 --> 01:00:05.780 to not post a YouTube video because I don't want 01:00:05.780 --> 01:00:09.400 to break my back. And in most cases, you know, 01:00:09.440 --> 01:00:13.039 my career is very fruitful. You know, I make 01:00:13.039 --> 01:00:16.320 a good living and I have a good work from home 01:00:16.320 --> 01:00:19.519 job. So that means the schedule is not. overly 01:00:19.519 --> 01:00:23.780 demanding. And I also mentioned I like hobbies. 01:00:23.900 --> 01:00:27.260 So I'm a musician and I like 3D printing and 01:00:27.260 --> 01:00:29.420 I like video games and I like all sorts of things. 01:00:29.519 --> 01:00:33.420 And so for me, at least this time in my life, 01:00:33.559 --> 01:00:38.619 I just want to enjoy it. And so I do my best 01:00:38.619 --> 01:00:41.619 to enjoy it and stay engaged with work. And then 01:00:41.619 --> 01:00:43.739 when I have the time and energy and an idea that 01:00:43.739 --> 01:00:47.219 sparks my interest, You know, I put in some time, 01:00:47.239 --> 01:00:49.960 I make a video or I do a live stream and I try 01:00:49.960 --> 01:00:51.739 to be consistent with some of the live streaming. 01:00:52.280 --> 01:00:55.219 So for me right now, it's Thursday nights. So 01:00:55.219 --> 01:00:58.099 Thursday night, between an hour to two hours, 01:00:58.219 --> 01:01:01.659 I'm going to work on something public and we'll 01:01:01.659 --> 01:01:05.360 see how that goes. And the rest of it, I just 01:01:05.360 --> 01:01:09.159 don't put a lot of demand. As a YouTuber, I'm 01:01:09.159 --> 01:01:11.360 not like, I have to get a video out this often. 01:01:11.980 --> 01:01:15.239 I do know that my subscriber count is... probably 01:01:15.239 --> 01:01:18.719 could be higher. There's that comparison there 01:01:18.719 --> 01:01:23.599 that I recognize. But I'm not worried about it. 01:01:24.460 --> 01:01:28.280 I like to take it easy. And life is good. So 01:01:28.280 --> 01:01:31.099 why not allow life to continue to be good and 01:01:31.099 --> 01:01:34.159 not derail it by putting all these demands on 01:01:34.159 --> 01:01:39.920 myself? Okay. Thanks for sharing. What about 01:01:39.920 --> 01:01:44.260 you, Nikolov? Yeah, look at my last video. like 01:01:44.260 --> 01:01:47.960 over three three four months ago that that tells 01:01:47.960 --> 01:01:52.019 you everything yep three months ago three months 01:01:52.019 --> 01:01:55.119 ago and look at that chapter one two and three 01:01:55.119 --> 01:01:59.460 and that's it again so that basically explains 01:01:59.460 --> 01:02:02.840 everything yeah i don't i don't i don't stress 01:02:02.840 --> 01:02:05.500 too much about about youtube as i mentioned like 01:02:05.500 --> 01:02:09.780 there's i'm doing youtube when i feel inspired 01:02:09.780 --> 01:02:12.980 about something and if i'm excited about something 01:02:13.889 --> 01:02:16.929 That's the ultimate litmus test. If I find it 01:02:16.929 --> 01:02:19.789 cool, at least one more person is going to find 01:02:19.789 --> 01:02:23.050 it cool. Right? I feel like right now I'm in 01:02:23.050 --> 01:02:28.829 my comfort zone. I'm not exploring. God knows 01:02:28.829 --> 01:02:32.369 what type of technologies and plugins and stuff 01:02:32.369 --> 01:02:36.429 like that. I just, you know, keep a steady work. 01:02:37.530 --> 01:02:42.650 Keep a steady work and, you know. there's not 01:02:42.650 --> 01:02:44.710 too much inspiration. There's just like pure 01:02:44.710 --> 01:02:47.309 output from me at the moment. So that's why my 01:02:47.309 --> 01:02:51.469 YouTube is more silent. Yeah. But I'll get back 01:02:51.469 --> 01:02:54.250 to it. I don't know. I like to experiment. Yeah. 01:02:54.369 --> 01:02:56.789 Get back to it eventually. It's not a job. Like 01:02:56.789 --> 01:03:00.869 you said, it's a hobby, right? Exactly. What 01:03:00.869 --> 01:03:04.550 about you, Blaze? I don't have a work -life balance. 01:03:04.750 --> 01:03:07.050 It's all the same. No, I'm just kidding. It's 01:03:07.050 --> 01:03:09.309 honestly the same as me. Like, it's just like, 01:03:09.389 --> 01:03:11.820 I think. when something sparks my interest or 01:03:11.820 --> 01:03:14.360 something that I'm exploring, I'm like, I like 01:03:14.360 --> 01:03:16.199 this, like I'm going to make a video about it 01:03:16.199 --> 01:03:20.179 and maybe somebody else will enjoy it. That's 01:03:20.179 --> 01:03:24.519 generally when I make a video. I'll go back actually 01:03:24.519 --> 01:03:26.480 a couple of questions because I made a video 01:03:26.480 --> 01:03:31.599 of reacting to PewDiePie's Linux video. And there's 01:03:31.599 --> 01:03:34.920 ever so often like little. points in the community 01:03:34.920 --> 01:03:37.219 for like Linux and open source stuff where I 01:03:37.219 --> 01:03:40.000 feel like I have input that I can even make. 01:03:40.099 --> 01:03:42.159 And that's generally when I'll do that sort of 01:03:42.159 --> 01:03:46.659 thing, because people like that sort of reaction 01:03:46.659 --> 01:03:52.519 video type of garbage. But no, but whenever there's 01:03:52.519 --> 01:03:55.820 something like that, I do jump on it. But when 01:03:55.820 --> 01:03:58.440 it's other than that, it's like if it's if it's 01:03:58.440 --> 01:04:00.079 not something that's like super interesting to 01:04:00.079 --> 01:04:03.500 me at the time. it's it stays in the background 01:04:03.500 --> 01:04:05.719 maybe i'll do a blog post about it and then make 01:04:05.719 --> 01:04:07.519 a video about it like six months later or something 01:04:07.519 --> 01:04:11.659 like that but um yeah it's it's not it's not 01:04:11.659 --> 01:04:15.519 a job for me like the the ad revenue is not making 01:04:15.519 --> 01:04:19.659 me a billionaire that's for sure so yeah definitely 01:04:19.659 --> 01:04:24.559 same thing here when i started started in january 01:04:24.559 --> 01:04:29.030 i started the day of my birthday exactly um posting 01:04:29.030 --> 01:04:31.230 the first video that's the only reason i remember 01:04:31.230 --> 01:04:36.849 right and uh i posted a few videos i don't know 01:04:36.849 --> 01:04:39.769 like 10 they didn't turn out and it was like 01:04:39.769 --> 01:04:43.130 what was i expecting right when you start you're 01:04:43.130 --> 01:04:46.210 like man i'm gonna be famous i'm gonna make it 01:04:46.210 --> 01:04:50.250 it wasn't the case right and i was like f this 01:04:50.250 --> 01:04:53.829 i'm just not gonna be posting often and i just 01:04:53.829 --> 01:04:56.750 stopped for a little while then i was like i'm 01:04:56.750 --> 01:04:58.969 not gonna give up you know i'm just And I keep 01:04:58.969 --> 01:05:01.650 doing it because I want to do it. Like my wife 01:05:01.650 --> 01:05:03.969 says all the time, just do it because you like 01:05:03.969 --> 01:05:09.230 it. Right. Just to make it a job. And at the 01:05:09.230 --> 01:05:13.590 beginning, I was wasting a lot of energy. I had 01:05:13.590 --> 01:05:16.789 no work life balance at all because it's really 01:05:16.789 --> 01:05:19.230 time consuming. When you're starting, there's 01:05:19.230 --> 01:05:21.590 a lot of stuff that you have to figure out. Right. 01:05:22.650 --> 01:05:25.989 Nowadays, it's easier. I think about a video. 01:05:26.679 --> 01:05:29.440 And I'm like, what should I create next? Or if 01:05:29.440 --> 01:05:32.300 I find something that I want to share, one hour, 01:05:32.460 --> 01:05:35.579 the video is up. I don't do a lot of work on 01:05:35.579 --> 01:05:37.559 it. Because I already have my setup. I already 01:05:37.559 --> 01:05:40.940 know what I have to do, how to do it. And it's 01:05:40.940 --> 01:05:44.639 easier now. I can have more work -life balance. 01:05:44.679 --> 01:05:47.119 Well, to start with, I don't have a job at the 01:05:47.119 --> 01:05:52.500 moment. So there's no work balance there. That 01:05:52.500 --> 01:05:55.480 gives me a lot of time to create more videos 01:05:55.480 --> 01:05:58.300 and come up with ideas and the interviews. I'm 01:05:58.300 --> 01:06:01.500 starting in a company soon. I'm going back to 01:06:01.500 --> 01:06:03.840 being a network engineer because that's how I 01:06:03.840 --> 01:06:07.860 started. You know, Cisco, Juniper, all that kind 01:06:07.860 --> 01:06:12.260 of stuff. I will not have time then because I 01:06:12.260 --> 01:06:13.940 will not be able to do those interviews that 01:06:13.940 --> 01:06:17.380 I've been doing lately. I have done them only 01:06:17.380 --> 01:06:20.059 because I don't have a job. But when I do, I 01:06:20.059 --> 01:06:22.980 don't know. Probably on Sundays, stuff like that. 01:06:23.139 --> 01:06:28.739 But yeah, I try to be better at that. The work 01:06:28.739 --> 01:06:31.440 -life balance, it's difficult because YouTube 01:06:31.440 --> 01:06:35.719 is not something simple and that takes just a 01:06:35.719 --> 01:06:38.980 small amount of time. At least to me, it consumes 01:06:38.980 --> 01:06:42.940 a lot of my energy. You know, it drains me. So 01:06:42.940 --> 01:06:47.440 I just have to find a better balance. And I wanted 01:06:47.440 --> 01:06:50.900 to ask you guys, do you binge watch? youtube 01:06:50.900 --> 01:06:55.480 or you just stay out of youtube at all mediski 01:06:55.480 --> 01:07:01.559 yeah i mean i watch plenty of youtube uh i i 01:07:01.559 --> 01:07:03.860 pay for youtube so i don't have to watch ads 01:07:03.860 --> 01:07:07.239 so i've justified that purchase by the amount 01:07:07.239 --> 01:07:09.400 of youtube i watch yeah so i enjoy youtube a 01:07:09.400 --> 01:07:14.260 lot and have always enjoyed it um for the sake 01:07:14.260 --> 01:07:19.420 of entertainment or education so yeah okay and 01:07:19.420 --> 01:07:23.610 you Nikolov? Honestly, not lately. I don't know. 01:07:23.610 --> 01:07:25.650 I'm kind of disappointed by the content. Not 01:07:25.650 --> 01:07:28.230 the content, the algorithm. What the algorithm 01:07:28.230 --> 01:07:30.590 serves me right now. So I'm just like, you know, 01:07:30.610 --> 01:07:34.690 not super into it. I open it every day. There 01:07:34.690 --> 01:07:39.929 is a hope, right? I open it every day, hoping 01:07:39.929 --> 01:07:43.739 that I'm going to see something. And I'll, you 01:07:43.739 --> 01:07:46.519 know, that will throw me in a rabbit hole. Please, 01:07:46.579 --> 01:07:48.500 if you have a video for me that will throw me 01:07:48.500 --> 01:07:51.940 in a rabbit hole, send it to me. But yeah, that's 01:07:51.940 --> 01:07:54.940 how I feel at the moment. Okay. Okay. Can you 01:07:54.940 --> 01:07:57.440 please? What kind of rabbit hole you want to 01:07:57.440 --> 01:08:03.460 go down? Nix. Nix. Let's go. Okay. Yeah. Vimjoyer's 01:08:03.460 --> 01:08:05.880 got some good stuff for Nix. I do watch definitely 01:08:05.880 --> 01:08:09.420 my fair share of YouTube, but I also, I get my 01:08:09.420 --> 01:08:13.730 feed served by RSS. So like if there's a channel 01:08:13.730 --> 01:08:17.109 that I'm interested in, I go in, I do the effort 01:08:17.109 --> 01:08:20.470 to take the channel into my RSS feed. And if 01:08:20.470 --> 01:08:23.869 it crosses my feed, then I go and watch it. Generally, 01:08:23.869 --> 01:08:27.170 I don't go to the homepage and search the algorithm. 01:08:28.750 --> 01:08:33.329 It's more so like even interviews that you've 01:08:33.329 --> 01:08:35.810 done, like I follow those people because I'm 01:08:35.810 --> 01:08:37.510 like, oh, these people are interesting. And that's 01:08:37.510 --> 01:08:41.569 kind of how I find people. for me it's like i 01:08:41.569 --> 01:08:43.850 i don't use the algorithm i don't like algorithms 01:08:43.850 --> 01:08:48.590 as it is so for it to feed me the content that 01:08:48.590 --> 01:08:51.189 i want to see it's i don't know it's it's iffy 01:08:51.189 --> 01:08:53.010 i know people like but i know that i've been 01:08:53.010 --> 01:08:55.189 found via the algorithm for some people people 01:08:55.189 --> 01:08:56.970 comment all the time on videos and they're like 01:08:56.970 --> 01:08:59.489 oh the the algorithm's feeding me this small 01:08:59.489 --> 01:09:02.090 creator and i'm like interesting it's not feeding 01:09:02.090 --> 01:09:05.229 me that so i don't know where it's feeding you 01:09:05.229 --> 01:09:12.479 okay okay and um Thoughts on sharing your .files 01:09:12.479 --> 01:09:17.000 publicly? That's the next one. Medesky, do you 01:09:17.000 --> 01:09:21.319 have anything you want to share there? Yeah, 01:09:21.359 --> 01:09:24.199 I think it's easy to be pretty sloppy in your 01:09:24.199 --> 01:09:26.300 .files and just kind of throw stuff together 01:09:26.300 --> 01:09:32.079 and see if it sticks, right? There's often... 01:09:32.079 --> 01:09:35.939 For me, what I've learned is the things that 01:09:35.939 --> 01:09:38.779 suck up the most time in the open source world... 01:09:39.239 --> 01:09:42.520 are often people that just don't know the technologies 01:09:42.520 --> 01:09:44.840 and so they're copy pasting and hoping to get 01:09:44.840 --> 01:09:48.020 some solution that i have for them it's like 01:09:48.020 --> 01:09:51.819 well you don't know programming so you're trying 01:09:51.819 --> 01:09:55.279 to do lewis scripting and it's pretty basic stuff 01:09:55.279 --> 01:09:57.619 but you just don't have you know you just don't 01:09:57.619 --> 01:10:00.060 you're not experienced in it so now i'm spending 01:10:00.060 --> 01:10:02.260 time attempting to help them with that kind of 01:10:02.260 --> 01:10:05.260 thing so um i think the only thing that makes 01:10:05.260 --> 01:10:08.739 me the most nervous is making sure private keys 01:10:08.739 --> 01:10:13.199 are not accessed. So I have to be pretty mindful 01:10:13.199 --> 01:10:19.840 of my gitignore on my repo. And at the same time, 01:10:19.939 --> 01:10:25.340 most of the people that I influence, we'll talk 01:10:25.340 --> 01:10:28.619 about that again, they just copy and paste what 01:10:28.619 --> 01:10:31.539 I've done. They just say, great, you've figured 01:10:31.539 --> 01:10:33.680 it out. I'm going to do that. And they just go 01:10:33.680 --> 01:10:35.659 into my TMUX config and they copy it and they 01:10:35.659 --> 01:10:38.460 just paste it. Or they go into my NeoVim config 01:10:38.460 --> 01:10:40.340 and they find a certain plugin that I've configured 01:10:40.340 --> 01:10:42.439 my way and they go, great, I'll just rip it. 01:10:42.819 --> 01:10:46.399 So for that reason alone, I know that my .files 01:10:46.399 --> 01:10:48.939 has produced a lot of value and it's got like 01:10:48.939 --> 01:10:51.119 hundreds of stars now. I think it's in like the 01:10:51.119 --> 01:10:54.399 600 range or something. So clearly lots of people 01:10:54.399 --> 01:10:58.640 enjoy that. And at the same time, I do appreciate 01:10:58.640 --> 01:11:01.779 when others do it. And I do scan through people's 01:11:01.779 --> 01:11:04.579 .files that they make public, and I steal things. 01:11:05.220 --> 01:11:09.859 Scavenge. Makes sense. Yeah, I scavenge. And 01:11:09.859 --> 01:11:12.359 so, yeah, I personally have tried to make an 01:11:12.359 --> 01:11:15.140 effort to make it approachable. So I do a lot 01:11:15.140 --> 01:11:17.680 of comments. And if you ever go to my .files, 01:11:17.680 --> 01:11:19.659 you'll see I have a lot of headings. I've done 01:11:19.659 --> 01:11:21.779 this big ASCII art kind of thing where I make 01:11:21.779 --> 01:11:24.500 it really clear this is the thing. and the URL 01:11:24.500 --> 01:11:27.319 to it and maybe code comments in places where 01:11:27.319 --> 01:11:29.119 I'm trying to guide people into understanding 01:11:29.119 --> 01:11:32.840 something. So I, and it's very neat over the 01:11:32.840 --> 01:11:35.619 years now that I'm more public. So I have a pretty 01:11:35.619 --> 01:11:39.640 tidy setup over time as I've been exposing it 01:11:39.640 --> 01:11:43.319 to more people. Okay. And so that's, yeah, that's 01:11:43.319 --> 01:11:47.979 me. Okay. You, Nicola? Like if you just make 01:11:47.979 --> 01:11:50.640 one video about configuring anything, you kind 01:11:50.640 --> 01:11:53.420 of have to. you know, get your dot files out 01:11:53.420 --> 01:11:57.800 there. So it's not a question. Right? People 01:11:57.800 --> 01:12:01.239 are going to ask for it. Yeah, I don't have any 01:12:01.239 --> 01:12:05.779 worries about, you know, leaking keys and everything 01:12:05.779 --> 01:12:08.340 because I don't have any of those things. I just 01:12:08.340 --> 01:12:12.779 have like plain config. And recently, like at 01:12:12.779 --> 01:12:15.760 the very beginning, I shared that I am just exploring 01:12:15.760 --> 01:12:20.659 PHP and Laravel right now. And there's the Was 01:12:20.659 --> 01:12:27.539 it called the LSP for PHP in Telefence or something 01:12:27.539 --> 01:12:30.520 like that? Yeah. Yeah. There's like a pro version 01:12:30.520 --> 01:12:33.279 for like 20 bucks, something like that. I bought 01:12:33.279 --> 01:12:36.340 it and you need to add the key in a TXT file. 01:12:36.560 --> 01:12:39.819 That was the first time that I had to add something 01:12:39.819 --> 01:12:44.260 sensitive to my dot files. And I just didn't 01:12:44.260 --> 01:12:49.539 add that to, you know, I use tow. to organize 01:12:49.539 --> 01:12:52.119 my .files. So I just add it into store ignore 01:12:52.119 --> 01:12:55.739 or something like that. But yeah, I'm not actually 01:12:55.739 --> 01:12:58.399 worried about leaking some stuff because there 01:12:58.399 --> 01:13:02.600 are none. Okay. And you, Blaise? I'm going to 01:13:02.600 --> 01:13:05.159 do a pull request on your .files. I'm going to 01:13:05.159 --> 01:13:09.539 be that guy. Yeah. These are your private configs, 01:13:09.539 --> 01:13:13.289 but I'm going to pull request you. Yeah. I know 01:13:13.289 --> 01:13:16.590 generally I use with Emacs, they have auth info. 01:13:16.670 --> 01:13:19.729 So anything you want to do for keys, you throw 01:13:19.729 --> 01:13:22.050 it in an auth info file in your home directory 01:13:22.050 --> 01:13:24.510 and you just keep that out of your dot files. 01:13:24.750 --> 01:13:29.329 I'm also a stow guy, but been getting into Nix. 01:13:29.569 --> 01:13:32.109 Eventually, like Nix would allow somebody to 01:13:32.109 --> 01:13:34.409 literally replicate your computer on their computer. 01:13:34.729 --> 01:13:37.069 So that's been kind of interesting to me that 01:13:37.069 --> 01:13:40.979 I. I almost like want to write this one ultimate 01:13:40.979 --> 01:13:43.300 config where people could literally pull in my 01:13:43.300 --> 01:13:45.380 computer and essentially have the exact same 01:13:45.380 --> 01:13:49.220 experience that I do. So that's a work in progress. 01:13:49.420 --> 01:13:52.220 It's going to take some time to get there, but 01:13:52.220 --> 01:13:55.539 it'll be interesting when it's when it's all 01:13:55.539 --> 01:13:58.100 said and done. But no, I'm not super worried 01:13:58.100 --> 01:14:00.979 about that because it's kept in like a completely 01:14:00.979 --> 01:14:03.420 separate file that's not within the dot files. 01:14:03.680 --> 01:14:08.399 And yeah, get ignore anything that's. Kind of 01:14:08.399 --> 01:14:12.380 questionable, but generally, no worries. Yeah, 01:14:12.520 --> 01:14:17.520 same here. There's, like Medesky said, there's 01:14:17.520 --> 01:14:22.199 guys that just clone my .files and basically 01:14:22.199 --> 01:14:25.720 install them in their Mac. I have a video in 01:14:25.720 --> 01:14:29.300 which I install everything through a script. 01:14:29.439 --> 01:14:33.140 All the applications, all the macOS system settings, 01:14:33.340 --> 01:14:37.279 everything, right? And it's in my .files. And 01:14:37.279 --> 01:14:41.060 it's weird to see other people, their computer 01:14:41.060 --> 01:14:45.399 with my setup. It's like my colors, my bar on 01:14:45.399 --> 01:14:47.979 the top, everything the same. And the problem 01:14:47.979 --> 01:14:49.960 is that they don't understand how it works because 01:14:49.960 --> 01:14:53.420 it's not just a single file, right? So you have 01:14:53.420 --> 01:14:56.359 stuff that is related between a lot of different 01:14:56.359 --> 01:14:59.520 files and you have to chase them down and it's 01:14:59.520 --> 01:15:02.920 complicated. And like Josh said, I have to explain 01:15:02.920 --> 01:15:06.949 pretty advanced stuff. to people that have no 01:15:06.949 --> 01:15:13.850 idea what Linux or Unix is. So it gets tricky. 01:15:14.449 --> 01:15:17.529 Eventually, I think they give up because they 01:15:17.529 --> 01:15:22.250 don't ask anymore. And, you know, yeah. And with 01:15:22.250 --> 01:15:26.149 passwords... Go ahead. I was just going to say, 01:15:26.170 --> 01:15:27.789 when I remember when I was first getting into 01:15:27.789 --> 01:15:30.310 like Unix and Linux, I went to like the Unix 01:15:30.310 --> 01:15:32.899 porn subreddit and I was like... what are these 01:15:32.899 --> 01:15:35.000 people doing? And like, that's where I think 01:15:35.000 --> 01:15:37.659 everybody gets the gateway where it's like, what 01:15:37.659 --> 01:15:40.000 is going on here? And I have to figure out every 01:15:40.000 --> 01:15:42.760 single piece of this. And it's like these, this 01:15:42.760 --> 01:15:46.699 huge Lego set that has no instructions whatsoever. 01:15:47.199 --> 01:15:49.800 And you have to put it together. And like only 01:15:49.800 --> 01:15:52.920 people that have any sort of, you know, wherewithal 01:15:52.920 --> 01:15:55.239 or like a lot of people give up, I think in the 01:15:55.239 --> 01:16:00.819 process of doing that. Yep, definitely. And that 01:16:00.819 --> 01:16:06.039 brings me, to the segue to the next sponsor of 01:16:06.039 --> 01:16:08.680 this video, which is 1Password. Just kidding. 01:16:08.920 --> 01:16:16.779 I wish they were. But what I do nowadays with 01:16:16.779 --> 01:16:20.039 the... Only 1Password is the one that I have 01:16:20.039 --> 01:16:22.819 the need to have in my .files. But I have it 01:16:22.819 --> 01:16:25.439 in 1Password because they have this 1Password 01:16:25.439 --> 01:16:28.859 CLI tool, which is the OBS password that I use 01:16:28.859 --> 01:16:31.600 to switch scenes. You know, I have my OBS with 01:16:31.600 --> 01:16:36.899 an API key. So with the Python script, I get 01:16:36.899 --> 01:16:42.060 that from 1Password and I use it to switch the 01:16:42.060 --> 01:16:44.920 scenes. So that's a good way to keep secrets, 01:16:45.000 --> 01:16:48.220 I think, if you're using 1Password. There is 01:16:48.220 --> 01:16:50.340 many other tools out there. Or there's people 01:16:50.340 --> 01:16:53.800 that... You guys are all CLI, guys. Unix Pass? 01:16:54.239 --> 01:16:58.199 Password Store? Oh. You guys use that? Not me. 01:16:58.319 --> 01:17:01.640 Nope. It is so good, man. I love it. Everything's 01:17:01.640 --> 01:17:04.640 GPG encrypted. So you can literally throw your 01:17:04.640 --> 01:17:07.159 passwords onto a Git repo because it's all encrypted. 01:17:07.340 --> 01:17:11.859 You need a key to get into it. And you can literally, 01:17:12.039 --> 01:17:14.520 like, it's just a text file. Oh, interesting. 01:17:15.119 --> 01:17:18.140 I love it. Interesting. Okay. Wonderful. I don't 01:17:18.140 --> 01:17:21.579 put it on a public repo, but, like, put it on 01:17:21.579 --> 01:17:27.590 a private Git server. Okay. Okay. We've been 01:17:27.590 --> 01:17:32.149 here on the call for almost, well, over an hour 01:17:32.149 --> 01:17:35.569 and a half. How much time do you guys have left? 01:17:35.710 --> 01:17:38.909 A few minutes? Or do you want to skip to the 01:17:38.909 --> 01:17:43.090 last question? I'm down for just a few more minutes. 01:17:43.689 --> 01:17:54.750 Okay. Let's see. We already covered this. Let's 01:17:54.750 --> 01:17:59.890 see. Let's just briefly go over this one. Would 01:17:59.890 --> 01:18:03.109 you take a sponsorship that does not align with 01:18:03.109 --> 01:18:07.569 your values? If the money is good, would you 01:18:07.569 --> 01:18:11.869 guys do it? It's a spicy question. We're talking 01:18:11.869 --> 01:18:15.590 really good. Like, I don't know. It would draw 01:18:15.590 --> 01:18:18.630 your attention and you would be like, man, this 01:18:18.630 --> 01:18:22.689 is like six months of salary. Would you take 01:18:22.689 --> 01:18:29.590 it? I probably wouldn't. I think for me, just 01:18:29.590 --> 01:18:32.869 the personal values, one of those values in my 01:18:32.869 --> 01:18:35.670 own life is integrity. So if something's going 01:18:35.670 --> 01:18:40.409 to go against my own personal integrity, I haven't 01:18:40.409 --> 01:18:44.590 yet come across an incentive big enough to want 01:18:44.590 --> 01:18:46.829 to break my own personal integrity. So that's 01:18:46.829 --> 01:18:50.010 just a value I live by in my life. So I would 01:18:50.010 --> 01:18:54.239 say no. Okay. Okay. You, Nikola? I'm going to 01:18:54.239 --> 01:18:58.619 try to see how I connect that thing or even my 01:18:58.619 --> 01:19:02.100 audience. And if there's just like a sliver of 01:19:02.100 --> 01:19:06.340 value in it, I might not going to lie. I might. 01:19:06.439 --> 01:19:08.899 Why the hell not? You know, if it's out there 01:19:08.899 --> 01:19:13.960 and it's for you, why not? But but I have like 01:19:13.960 --> 01:19:17.239 declined a lot, a lot of sponsorships that are 01:19:17.239 --> 01:19:21.500 just, you know, made no sense. I mentioned BenQ. 01:19:21.600 --> 01:19:23.060 That was the only thing that I've done and I 01:19:23.060 --> 01:19:27.060 kind of regretted it. So, you know, there have 01:19:27.060 --> 01:19:29.399 been like, after that one, there's been a lot 01:19:29.399 --> 01:19:32.000 of, a lot of, you know, sponsorships like keyboards, 01:19:32.359 --> 01:19:35.140 desks. We're going to send you keyboards. We're 01:19:35.140 --> 01:19:37.300 going to send you desks. Am I going to need to, 01:19:37.300 --> 01:19:40.020 you know, get a freaking warehouse to store all 01:19:40.020 --> 01:19:45.500 those things? One bedroom. Yeah. Living in a 01:19:45.500 --> 01:19:47.619 one bedroom apartment in Toronto, you do not 01:19:47.619 --> 01:19:51.890 have too much, you know. opportunities to store 01:19:51.890 --> 01:19:56.770 things so yeah even if I have my audience does 01:19:56.770 --> 01:20:01.930 not like that so I don't even ask or talk or 01:20:01.930 --> 01:20:04.729 open or like start the conversation of how that 01:20:04.729 --> 01:20:07.750 sponsorship would look like or how much are they 01:20:07.750 --> 01:20:10.930 willing to pay or honestly because I've just 01:20:10.930 --> 01:20:14.670 done one I don't even have a price or a package 01:20:14.670 --> 01:20:21.699 for you know sponsors So like, no, I would think 01:20:21.699 --> 01:20:25.279 about it. Try to find that little connection. 01:20:25.460 --> 01:20:28.659 If there is none, I'm not going to bother. Okay. 01:20:28.859 --> 01:20:32.600 You, Blaise? I mean, it depends on the product. 01:20:32.659 --> 01:20:35.079 It has to be on brand and it has to be good too. 01:20:35.119 --> 01:20:37.159 Like I don't. I can't recommend something that's 01:20:37.159 --> 01:20:39.520 not good. And people will also like sniff that 01:20:39.520 --> 01:20:41.460 out too. Like if it's not a good product and 01:20:41.460 --> 01:20:44.260 you recommend it and it's like this bomb of a 01:20:44.260 --> 01:20:47.640 product, like that's your channel that's going 01:20:47.640 --> 01:20:50.819 up in flames, right? So generally I'm not going 01:20:50.819 --> 01:20:53.319 to do that. There was actually, there was a Mac 01:20:53.319 --> 01:20:57.380 only program that somebody had reached out about 01:20:57.380 --> 01:21:00.180 for me to promote. And I was like, I don't use 01:21:00.180 --> 01:21:06.159 Mac. Can't promote it. Simple. So, so something 01:21:06.159 --> 01:21:09.140 like that, generally not. Um, some, I had like 01:21:09.140 --> 01:21:12.840 a key cap company sent me out key caps, uh, I 01:21:12.840 --> 01:21:15.100 don't know, probably six months ago. And I did 01:21:15.100 --> 01:21:17.399 a little video about it because they're actually 01:21:17.399 --> 01:21:19.960 pretty darn good. So if it's something like that, 01:21:20.060 --> 01:21:22.979 yeah. But I mean, I'm not getting six figure 01:21:22.979 --> 01:21:29.159 sponsorship offers. So, yeah. So I mean, yeah. 01:21:29.840 --> 01:21:32.380 Put, put, put some on my table and we'll have 01:21:32.380 --> 01:21:35.119 a conversation. We'll go from there. Yeah, I 01:21:35.119 --> 01:21:37.079 would think about it too. And I would try to 01:21:37.079 --> 01:21:40.420 make it work. See if it's possible. If it's not 01:21:40.420 --> 01:21:42.359 possible, I wouldn't do it. I wouldn't recommend 01:21:42.359 --> 01:21:44.800 something that I don't believe in. But I would 01:21:44.800 --> 01:21:47.020 give it a try. I wouldn't say no. You know, I 01:21:47.020 --> 01:21:50.300 would just try to see how we can make it work. 01:21:50.439 --> 01:21:55.420 Because it's money, you know. But yeah, I have 01:21:55.420 --> 01:22:00.420 seen some other channels. None of the ones mentioned 01:22:00.420 --> 01:22:03.460 or that are here, by the way. Not even you, Lazar. 01:22:03.899 --> 01:22:07.100 Right. But I have seen other channels doing product 01:22:07.100 --> 01:22:10.539 reviews and you're like, man, so I'm watching 01:22:10.539 --> 01:22:13.279 an ad. Right. Like midway through the video, 01:22:13.340 --> 01:22:15.880 you're like, I'm watching an ad. And if I do 01:22:15.880 --> 01:22:19.220 it, I know for sure that I'm going to get a lot 01:22:19.220 --> 01:22:22.039 of hate. Right. So you have to know that it's 01:22:22.039 --> 01:22:25.840 going to impact your channel for sure. So, yeah. 01:22:26.539 --> 01:22:28.819 And there's some there's some people that do 01:22:28.819 --> 01:22:32.000 like really great integrations of ads and stuff 01:22:32.000 --> 01:22:34.510 like and I think that people. Like they see the 01:22:34.510 --> 01:22:36.670 effort and they they accept that it's an ad. 01:22:36.770 --> 01:22:38.289 And I think that that would be a way to do it. 01:22:38.350 --> 01:22:40.449 But again, it just has to be a product that's 01:22:40.449 --> 01:22:45.449 not not good. Right. Yep. Yeah. Yep. Let's jump 01:22:45.449 --> 01:22:50.529 to the last question. Someone just thinking about 01:22:50.529 --> 01:22:56.170 getting started. Would you recommend that starting 01:22:56.170 --> 01:23:02.250 a tech YouTube channel? Yeah, this is my favorite 01:23:02.250 --> 01:23:06.680 question. So the thing I tend to tell people 01:23:06.680 --> 01:23:10.500 is just set a really low expectation. Just expect 01:23:10.500 --> 01:23:13.479 that your first video isn't going to be very 01:23:13.479 --> 01:23:19.979 good. I really I tend to go back to this short 01:23:19.979 --> 01:23:23.500 speech by Ira Glass called he talks about taste. 01:23:23.819 --> 01:23:26.479 So we want to make good videos. But if you've 01:23:26.479 --> 01:23:28.640 never made a video, you know, your first video 01:23:28.640 --> 01:23:32.340 won't probably be very good. And so over time. 01:23:32.840 --> 01:23:34.899 you will get better at making videos. And, you 01:23:34.899 --> 01:23:37.319 know, it's one of those things that the more 01:23:37.319 --> 01:23:39.319 you make, the more videos you make, the better 01:23:39.319 --> 01:23:43.579 they will get. You can't really jump ahead in 01:23:43.579 --> 01:23:46.880 that process. But as long as you know what is 01:23:46.880 --> 01:23:49.500 good, right, the videos you do enjoy and the 01:23:49.500 --> 01:23:53.300 formats that do work as a consumer, you just 01:23:53.300 --> 01:23:55.399 follow that and you just try your best to build 01:23:55.399 --> 01:24:00.579 things better every time. So hopefully each video 01:24:00.579 --> 01:24:04.069 is a little bit better than the last. And, you 01:24:04.069 --> 01:24:07.810 know, the views come, they often come very slowly 01:24:07.810 --> 01:24:11.949 and it turns exponential. So you get one view 01:24:11.949 --> 01:24:15.289 and then maybe you'll get 10 views. Maybe you'll 01:24:15.289 --> 01:24:18.930 get 100 views. And I have never hit 100 ,000 01:24:18.930 --> 01:24:22.390 views in a single video. So that's sort of my 01:24:22.390 --> 01:24:25.750 next cap. That's my next like threshold is like, 01:24:25.770 --> 01:24:27.829 how could I get a video that over 100 ,000 people 01:24:27.829 --> 01:24:30.890 want to watch? And from there, you might be able 01:24:30.890 --> 01:24:34.569 to get multiples. But I think in general, you 01:24:34.569 --> 01:24:36.869 don't know which video is going to do well, is 01:24:36.869 --> 01:24:39.050 my advice to most people. Just make the videos 01:24:39.050 --> 01:24:41.710 and some of them will do well. You might figure 01:24:41.710 --> 01:24:44.350 out why. And other times videos might do really 01:24:44.350 --> 01:24:46.430 well and you have no reason why this video did 01:24:46.430 --> 01:24:49.689 better than the one before it. And so be careful 01:24:49.689 --> 01:24:51.930 not to think that you can figure it out and just 01:24:51.930 --> 01:24:55.789 do your best to make content and provide value, 01:24:55.850 --> 01:24:58.289 hopefully, to others or entertainment or whatever. 01:24:59.429 --> 01:25:01.630 factors you're trying to put into why you're 01:25:01.630 --> 01:25:04.550 making your videos and just kind of ride ride 01:25:04.550 --> 01:25:06.850 the ride and see what happens and pivot where 01:25:06.850 --> 01:25:10.090 it makes sense and and just be patient is my 01:25:10.090 --> 01:25:14.770 is my best advice okay nicola now i would say 01:25:14.770 --> 01:25:17.710 the same 100 if you are thinking about starting 01:25:17.710 --> 01:25:20.909 a channel do start a channel but low expectations 01:25:20.909 --> 01:25:24.850 a ton of patience when you create a channel youtube 01:25:24.850 --> 01:25:28.069 is going to be like In order, like, here's one 01:25:28.069 --> 01:25:30.310 milestone for you, and that's going to be the 01:25:30.310 --> 01:25:33.829 monetization milestone. And it will require you 01:25:33.829 --> 01:25:38.630 to reach 1 ,000 subscribers and 4 ,000 watch 01:25:38.630 --> 01:25:44.350 hours. And that is painful to, you know, achieve. 01:25:44.770 --> 01:25:48.670 Painful to achieve. So there's a lot of work. 01:25:48.970 --> 01:25:51.670 That's going to be your North Star naturally 01:25:51.670 --> 01:25:57.170 at the very beginning. But it takes time. It 01:25:57.170 --> 01:26:01.109 takes a lot of time. But once you get comfortable, 01:26:02.130 --> 01:26:07.550 it can just be good, I would say. Unless you 01:26:07.550 --> 01:26:10.949 make a fool out of yourself. But yeah, mostly 01:26:10.949 --> 01:26:14.689 good stuff of owning a YouTube channel and posting. 01:26:15.390 --> 01:26:19.369 Okay, Blaise? Yeah, that thousand subscriber 01:26:19.369 --> 01:26:22.609 thing is... that's, it's all downhill after a 01:26:22.609 --> 01:26:24.609 thousand subscribers. Like it's a, it's a, it's 01:26:24.609 --> 01:26:27.510 a momentum that does carry for sure. Cause hitting 01:26:27.510 --> 01:26:30.949 a thousand subscribers is like very hard. And 01:26:30.949 --> 01:26:33.149 then I blinked and I was at 3000 subscribers. 01:26:33.409 --> 01:26:36.210 I was like, what? Like it's, it's an interesting 01:26:36.210 --> 01:26:39.710 game to play to begin with. But I think if you're 01:26:39.710 --> 01:26:43.770 doing it to be yourself and to like show the 01:26:43.770 --> 01:26:45.670 world who you actually are, I think it could 01:26:45.670 --> 01:26:47.529 be one of the greatest things you can possibly 01:26:47.529 --> 01:26:51.319 do. I think that YouTube can be like this amazing 01:26:51.319 --> 01:26:55.239 channel to meet people in the space that you're 01:26:55.239 --> 01:27:00.479 in. It can be this kind of accelerant to work 01:27:00.479 --> 01:27:04.119 that you're doing in. whatever space and you 01:27:04.119 --> 01:27:06.500 can start a channel about literally anything 01:27:06.500 --> 01:27:08.340 and there will be somebody that will watch it 01:27:08.340 --> 01:27:10.600 because that is the nature of the internet so 01:27:10.600 --> 01:27:13.380 i think that it's it's a phenomenal thing to 01:27:13.380 --> 01:27:16.220 get into it is like you guys said it's a slog 01:27:16.220 --> 01:27:19.079 to begin with but at the same time like if you're 01:27:19.079 --> 01:27:22.220 not doing it to get rich and famous and you're 01:27:22.220 --> 01:27:23.979 doing it to just like show the world who you 01:27:23.979 --> 01:27:27.039 are there's no better way to do it i think in 01:27:27.039 --> 01:27:32.460 in 2025 and and beyond i wish i had started like 01:27:32.760 --> 01:27:34.939 10 years ago, I wish I had started like, you 01:27:34.939 --> 01:27:37.460 know, and I think that's everybody's sentiment 01:27:37.460 --> 01:27:42.800 too. Yeah, I would say the same thing. Expectations 01:27:42.800 --> 01:27:45.859 just don't expect too much. And it's not because 01:27:45.859 --> 01:27:49.300 of a skill issue. You know, the algorithm has 01:27:49.300 --> 01:27:53.640 to catch up and it's a battle the first year. 01:27:53.800 --> 01:27:57.979 It's horrible. I don't know if I would recommend 01:27:57.979 --> 01:28:01.939 it because it's tough. It's painful. and you 01:28:01.939 --> 01:28:03.979 get obsessed you know looking at the youtube 01:28:03.979 --> 01:28:06.960 app thing okay how did this video do i still 01:28:06.960 --> 01:28:11.619 do it a lot and just do it but don't expect too 01:28:11.619 --> 01:28:13.760 much out of it maybe you're super good you're 01:28:13.760 --> 01:28:16.600 the next primogen man you're gonna be like the 01:28:16.600 --> 01:28:21.100 exception not the rule right because i would 01:28:21.100 --> 01:28:23.159 say go for it but just don't expect too much 01:28:23.159 --> 01:28:25.939 one last question one last thing that i want 01:28:25.939 --> 01:28:29.880 to cover quickly guys is niching down Because 01:28:29.880 --> 01:28:34.039 you hear that advice, right? So niche down and 01:28:34.039 --> 01:28:37.319 just do NeoVim and don't do anything else. What 01:28:37.319 --> 01:28:44.159 are your guys' thoughts on that? I do think online 01:28:44.159 --> 01:28:50.279 heavily favors that approach. I think for most 01:28:50.279 --> 01:28:52.859 people, if you can stick to a certain topic and 01:28:52.859 --> 01:28:58.500 dive deep, YouTube algorithms... you know social 01:28:58.500 --> 01:29:00.579 media feeds all of the things we've been talking 01:29:00.579 --> 01:29:04.539 about today almost always favor that i think 01:29:04.539 --> 01:29:06.779 there are always exceptions to the rule where 01:29:06.779 --> 01:29:09.520 they're like generalists and people enjoy the 01:29:09.520 --> 01:29:11.899 personality or they enjoy the person more than 01:29:11.899 --> 01:29:14.479 maybe specifically what they're doing and so 01:29:14.479 --> 01:29:18.220 some people can hop around typically they have 01:29:18.220 --> 01:29:22.579 that um they're given that opportunity to to 01:29:22.579 --> 01:29:26.260 move around in what they want to talk about because 01:29:26.260 --> 01:29:29.100 they've proven themselves and built an audience 01:29:29.100 --> 01:29:35.460 first but um yeah i think for me i'm really frustrated 01:29:35.460 --> 01:29:38.420 at the internet for this reason because i like 01:29:38.420 --> 01:29:41.460 so many things i have so many interests and i'd 01:29:41.460 --> 01:29:43.539 be happy to talk about all of them in one place 01:29:43.539 --> 01:29:48.460 but even right now a lot of my friends that are 01:29:48.460 --> 01:29:51.619 youtubers and i've made a few more today you 01:29:51.619 --> 01:29:54.439 know they often say if i'm going to change topics 01:29:54.439 --> 01:29:56.680 i'm going to make a new youtube channel And that 01:29:56.680 --> 01:29:58.840 new YouTube channel often performs very well 01:29:58.840 --> 01:30:01.279 and it's very successful in that they've just 01:30:01.279 --> 01:30:04.199 started fresh, new account, same person, new 01:30:04.199 --> 01:30:07.920 account, new topic, and it is successful for 01:30:07.920 --> 01:30:10.920 them. And so that is the most obvious approach 01:30:10.920 --> 01:30:13.979 that I see that works. But people that just change 01:30:13.979 --> 01:30:16.699 topics and they're not already very successful, 01:30:16.939 --> 01:30:20.220 it doesn't seem, even videos I try that are out 01:30:20.220 --> 01:30:23.100 of topic for my typical stuff, they don't perform 01:30:23.100 --> 01:30:26.670 well at all. Like almost no one sees them. So 01:30:26.670 --> 01:30:28.869 that is unfortunately, it seems like the state 01:30:28.869 --> 01:30:31.869 of reality right now. I uploaded a song that 01:30:31.869 --> 01:30:34.729 I recorded, like, I don't know, a lot of years 01:30:34.729 --> 01:30:40.350 ago and got like a hundred views. It's just the 01:30:40.350 --> 01:30:43.050 audio of the song, me playing the guitar, you 01:30:43.050 --> 01:30:47.189 know, in a backing track. And yeah, yeah. Your 01:30:47.189 --> 01:30:52.170 thoughts there, Azhar? Yeah, I think it's generally 01:30:52.170 --> 01:30:56.670 like a good idea. to niche down. I just checked 01:30:56.670 --> 01:30:59.270 my channel and went to my channel, clicked on 01:30:59.270 --> 01:31:04.189 the popular tab just to see what is at the top. 01:31:04.350 --> 01:31:07.949 And it's mostly NeoVim with one single exception, 01:31:08.470 --> 01:31:11.770 Clean Architecture in Next .js being the second 01:31:11.770 --> 01:31:16.569 most popular video. So there could be something 01:31:16.569 --> 01:31:22.609 to it, but in general, it's definitely good niching 01:31:22.609 --> 01:31:29.210 down. Maybe not to, I don't know. It all depends 01:31:29.210 --> 01:31:32.649 on your brand. If you, from the very beginning, 01:31:32.829 --> 01:31:36.310 start talking about web dev and occasionally 01:31:36.310 --> 01:31:38.569 you throw in NeoVim, occasionally you throw in 01:31:38.569 --> 01:31:41.029 JavaScript, occasionally you throw in Docker 01:31:41.029 --> 01:31:44.630 because it's relevant in web development. If 01:31:44.630 --> 01:31:48.710 you build that brand, I guess it can work for 01:31:48.710 --> 01:31:51.640 you. Because that's the audience that you're 01:31:51.640 --> 01:31:53.619 going to attract, right? You're going to attract 01:31:53.619 --> 01:31:58.100 full stack engineers that work with Docker just 01:31:58.100 --> 01:32:00.239 as much. They work with JavaScript and all of 01:32:00.239 --> 01:32:03.039 that is relevant to you. But niching down is 01:32:03.039 --> 01:32:07.619 generally like a good idea if you want to start 01:32:07.619 --> 01:32:11.960 building an audience. Definitely. Okay. And you, 01:32:11.979 --> 01:32:15.619 Blaise? I agree with the sentiment for sure about 01:32:15.619 --> 01:32:21.199 niching down. But I also, for myself, I do everything 01:32:21.199 --> 01:32:23.840 under my name and my channel is kind of just 01:32:23.840 --> 01:32:26.819 a reflection of who I am. So for me, it was, 01:32:26.920 --> 01:32:29.159 it's, it's always about like, I think if you 01:32:29.159 --> 01:32:31.300 do it even in seasons of your life where you 01:32:31.300 --> 01:32:33.420 are interested in a certain thing and you make, 01:32:33.439 --> 01:32:37.300 you know, 10 videos about X or Y, then you can, 01:32:37.300 --> 01:32:40.319 you know, be on topic and that, and you can gain 01:32:40.319 --> 01:32:42.699 your followers because of that. But if there's 01:32:42.699 --> 01:32:44.699 other seasons that you move into in your life, 01:32:44.859 --> 01:32:48.739 you can also kind of, pivot into those as well 01:32:48.739 --> 01:32:52.140 um i mean if you're a channel that is like you 01:32:52.140 --> 01:32:55.180 know web dev 101 or something like that obviously 01:32:55.180 --> 01:32:57.199 you're not going to make a video of you walking 01:32:57.199 --> 01:32:59.079 in the woods talking about life or something 01:32:59.079 --> 01:33:01.859 like that but at the same time if you're if your 01:33:01.859 --> 01:33:06.140 channel is you then you know what are you what 01:33:06.140 --> 01:33:09.300 are you interested in right now and if it's something 01:33:09.300 --> 01:33:11.220 like even if it gets 100 views because it's a 01:33:11.220 --> 01:33:16.409 music like a track that you put out there yeah 01:33:16.409 --> 01:33:18.810 who cares it's it's you right and i mean you 01:33:18.810 --> 01:33:21.550 don't get penalized for getting 100 views on 01:33:21.550 --> 01:33:24.069 a music track like it's just something that didn't 01:33:24.069 --> 01:33:26.869 hit with the audience at the time and maybe maybe 01:33:26.869 --> 01:33:29.750 it hits tomorrow who knows right so that's my 01:33:29.750 --> 01:33:32.689 sentiment at least um and that's kind of how 01:33:32.689 --> 01:33:36.229 i i do my channel yeah it's probably not the 01:33:36.229 --> 01:33:38.270 most successful thing we'll put it that way but 01:33:38.270 --> 01:33:42.869 well same here um that's why i have it under 01:33:42.869 --> 01:33:45.939 my name well Not my name because my name was 01:33:45.939 --> 01:33:48.920 taken. If you search for my name in YouTube, 01:33:49.159 --> 01:33:51.260 someone's going to show up. So I just came up 01:33:51.260 --> 01:33:54.060 with the name, something basic. I didn't think 01:33:54.060 --> 01:33:57.140 about it too much, whatever, right? But it's 01:33:57.140 --> 01:34:00.260 my name, so I can put whatever I want there. 01:34:01.140 --> 01:34:03.840 It's not going to be well taken if it's not NeoVim 01:34:03.840 --> 01:34:07.039 or macOS related. I can go to Linux still. I 01:34:07.039 --> 01:34:09.460 can go to Emacs. I can go to Helix. You know, 01:34:09.479 --> 01:34:13.119 I can stay around that. you know, those subjects, 01:34:13.319 --> 01:34:16.699 but I cannot go too far. I cannot go music and 01:34:16.699 --> 01:34:19.939 I like music, but who knows? Like Medesky said, 01:34:20.159 --> 01:34:22.479 if you're ever really popular, you can do whatever 01:34:22.479 --> 01:34:25.279 you want. And hopefully, you know, it happens 01:34:25.279 --> 01:34:30.699 to all of us someday. So we covered basically 01:34:30.699 --> 01:34:33.420 everything. I just want to thank each one of 01:34:33.420 --> 01:34:36.560 you for your time. It's been almost two hours. 01:34:37.810 --> 01:34:40.810 Thanks to each one of you. Any final words before 01:34:40.810 --> 01:34:45.470 we wrap it up? Just a roundtable? Yeah, I'll 01:34:45.470 --> 01:34:49.470 say what I always say. You can find me at joshmadesky 01:34:49.470 --> 01:34:53.890 .com. I have a YouTube channel. I said a lot 01:34:53.890 --> 01:34:55.729 in the introduction, but I also have a Discord 01:34:55.729 --> 01:34:59.189 server. So if you want to have more conversations 01:34:59.189 --> 01:35:02.770 like this, you can click on my website, joshmadesky 01:35:02.770 --> 01:35:06.439 .com. Yep. Okay. Discord server at the top corner. 01:35:06.579 --> 01:35:10.399 I also have a great little free guide that gets 01:35:10.399 --> 01:35:13.920 you if you scroll to the very bottom. If you 01:35:13.920 --> 01:35:17.100 want to get into this, people keep going. If 01:35:17.100 --> 01:35:19.380 you want to get into this, I have a dev workflow 01:35:19.380 --> 01:35:21.819 intro. So you want to learn about what is the 01:35:21.819 --> 01:35:25.439 terminal and shells and Tmux and NeoVim and how 01:35:25.439 --> 01:35:26.939 would I put all this together to get started. 01:35:27.460 --> 01:35:29.520 I have a free guide online, no email required. 01:35:29.800 --> 01:35:32.399 So that's what I tend to point people to when 01:35:32.399 --> 01:35:35.140 they want to get into this stuff. Okay, wonderful. 01:35:35.340 --> 01:35:37.680 I'm going to leave a lot of the links in the 01:35:37.680 --> 01:35:40.720 video description. So you just guys send me your 01:35:40.720 --> 01:35:44.199 links like YouTube, blog posts or anything that 01:35:44.199 --> 01:35:46.380 you want me to add. I put them at the top of 01:35:46.380 --> 01:35:52.319 the description. And you, Lazar? What can I say? 01:35:52.399 --> 01:35:55.020 Thanks for having me. Let's do this again. I 01:35:55.020 --> 01:35:58.119 like to, you know, meet creators and talk shop. 01:35:58.340 --> 01:36:02.239 We even like get into AV gear software editing 01:36:02.239 --> 01:36:06.800 more. deep into that thing, always down. But 01:36:06.800 --> 01:36:09.239 yeah, check my website, check my Discord. Okay. 01:36:09.359 --> 01:36:11.979 And I'll leave them there as well. Creatures 01:36:11.979 --> 01:36:17.579 .sh. Okay. Your Discord and your website. I don't 01:36:17.579 --> 01:36:21.000 see it here, I think. I don't have like a website. 01:36:21.239 --> 01:36:24.840 It's nicolaflazer .com, but it's just, it's the 01:36:24.840 --> 01:36:27.800 YouTube API, just pulling stuff and displaying 01:36:27.800 --> 01:36:29.579 it on the website, but there is nothing else. 01:36:29.819 --> 01:36:33.090 There's no blog or anything. Yeah. Okay. If you 01:36:33.090 --> 01:36:36.729 guys want to do another of these, I will be more 01:36:36.729 --> 01:36:39.289 than happy to do it. If we find a topic, something 01:36:39.289 --> 01:36:41.569 that you guys want to share, just let me know. 01:36:41.670 --> 01:36:45.130 We can schedule it and it would be wonderful. 01:36:45.569 --> 01:36:50.090 And Blaze, what about you? Yeah, this was fun. 01:36:50.149 --> 01:36:54.489 I enjoyed this. Yeah, find me on my YouTube channel. 01:36:54.729 --> 01:36:57.770 I got my website, joshblaze .com. Got all my 01:36:57.770 --> 01:36:59.770 links on my YouTube channel. So if you want to 01:36:59.770 --> 01:37:01.689 go read blog posts and stuff or write about. 01:37:02.600 --> 01:37:05.819 technology but also metaphysics and theology 01:37:05.819 --> 01:37:07.939 and that sort of stuff that's been interesting 01:37:07.939 --> 01:37:11.399 to me lately so it's it's a mishmash of who i 01:37:11.399 --> 01:37:14.060 am as a person and that's uh that's my blog i 01:37:14.060 --> 01:37:17.579 i also have a book too on my uh my website if 01:37:17.579 --> 01:37:22.899 you're interested in in a 200 some odd page expose 01:37:22.899 --> 01:37:26.460 of who i am where is it here reading it's a good 01:37:26.460 --> 01:37:33.800 uh no go to my uh youtube And just bottom. Okay. 01:37:33.960 --> 01:37:36.420 Sorry, it's right there. Yeah, you got it. MountainTheBook 01:37:36.420 --> 01:37:40.100 .com. There's my book. And there I am. Okay. 01:37:40.239 --> 01:37:43.500 Go buy it on Amazon. Give me a very small cut 01:37:43.500 --> 01:37:45.399 of what they take from me every single time I 01:37:45.399 --> 01:37:49.880 sell a book. Cool. Okay. Great. Great. We're 01:37:49.880 --> 01:37:52.880 going to try to find an EOVM guy for the next 01:37:52.880 --> 01:37:56.680 time. Unfortunately, we couldn't. So we had to 01:37:56.680 --> 01:38:01.250 do the Emacs Linux guy. I'm just kidding, man. 01:38:01.409 --> 01:38:04.350 Just kidding. So just reach out to me, guys. 01:38:04.590 --> 01:38:06.850 I want to see you again. I want to do a call 01:38:06.850 --> 01:38:09.829 up again. Let's think about a topic. Thanks to 01:38:09.829 --> 01:38:13.449 each one of you. Till the next time. Thank you. 01:38:13.670 --> 01:38:14.829 Bye. Thanks. Bye.