Postmortem on a LiveEDU Live Stream Project (Part 1)

  • Joe Cianflone
The past couple of months I've been live coding a project at [LiveEDU](https://liveedu.tv/joecianflone). As I get ready to wrap up the project and start some new endeavors I'm taking a moment to think about the LiveEDU service itself and what I did well or could have done better.

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So I played skeeball yesterday...today my back feels like I’ve spent 12 hours digging a ditch.

The fact that column-span does not work in @firefox yet is annoying. The fact that is been in their bug system for 8 god damn years elevates this to depressing.

I hate Word/Pages so much that I built my resume in @SketchApp. It was simple and looks exactly the way I want it to. The only trick is converting to outlines and exporting it to a PDF to save it, but once you do that you're golden. Somewhere a print designer's eye is twitching https://t.co/HbKpXevnol

Interesting thing I never realized. If you try to use the CSS calc() function with a Sass variable, you need to interpolate the value or it will error, not what I expected honestly https://t.co/kbotgOHRNl

@kadavy And I have two different types of boards: people boards and project boards. If you’re interested I can give you more info on how I set them up, but they totally become my work brain.

@kadavy It’s all about the daily standup and a trello board with who working on what. The stand up is key because it gives ppl the opportunity to tell you if there’s a problem. The board gets all the info out of your head

So many people equate their current job with their career. They’re not the same thing. Losing a job is not the end of your career. No one job will make or break you. If you play a longer game you don’t need to worry about any one job.

This is the hardest thing a programmer will face when they become a manager. I tell people when you become a manager, you’re now a mentor and a mentor doesnt do the hard work for their mentee. https://t.co/LHILhOXAhT

@tomdale When you see things listing off track you need to alert the proper people in stark terms about what you see. It’s their job to fix it. If they can’t, give guidance. Talk about solutions. If they can’t fix it...you might have the wrong person and that’s a different problem

@tomdale You can do this, but you’ll probably be unavailable as a manager and leader while you do it. So in reality, you’re not doing your job. You can’t run in and save every project. If you do that your team will come to see you as an integral part to finishing projects.

Someone was recently telling me they were a "Code Ninja". I don't want to work with a Ninja, they leave a bloody mess. I want to work with a "Code Janitor". Comes in the middle of the night, cleans things up, you only know they were there because everything is organized and tidy.

Day 4 of lower back pain: better than yesterday, I can move around more, but if I breath in too fast I get this shooting twinge of pain that says, “hey fucker I’m still here”

This summer our family is going on a road trip through the south where we will be visiting sites/places that were crucial during the civil rights movement. @kanyewest, let me know if you want to come along for the ride.

My daughter did something to my sons leap pad that allowed her to get to a screen that acts as a sorta cheat code for the device. How she did this...no clue, she’s 2 https://t.co/OfcTAJs6pg