Last year I started a YouTube series called "programming everyday until I graduate college." No editing, no cuts. Press record, code, post. Today was day 479.
I saw someone else doing it and copied the format. Long-form video was the only thing that actually fit the habit — coding in public every day, even when I had nothing.
The part I didn't expect was how much the camera changed the work. Sitting down with no plan felt humiliating, so I always brought one. On lazy days I still owed the camera something. On vacation I opened the laptop anyway. I haven't missed a day since January 13, 2025.
It got tiring. Especially as AI kept eating more of how we write code, and I'd catch myself wondering what I was even practicing. But recording forced me to know the difference between what I actually understood and what I was letting autocomplete paper over. Worth it for that alone.
Watch at @boatnoah.