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+1. I do a lot of videos, especially now that COVID has put the kibosh on in-person conferences and everything is pre-recorded. I usually need 3 takes to do a decent talk recording and that assumes substantial prep to lay out the story line. Anything less is a meandering mess.

It's way easier just to write a decent README.md.

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Why not both?

What does the video add that the readme doesn't do?

Segues to sponsors and screamed content as attempts to keep your attention and to prevent you from falling asleep.

Honest response:

Wonderful documentation is hard to beat from my learning perspective, but I find that level of quality is more rare.

Therefore, I learn better by watching something materialize on video at ~3x speed and often without any speaking.

I think it simply boils down to my level of trust that this person didn’t accidentally omit anything from their article or blog post or whatever and what I see on the screen is what I get. Now, that doesn’t fix when tools change etc, but videos instill a higher level of trust that, if I follow these steps, I will produce this output.

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