Daily Ponderings

Today I did a Twitch Stream - first time in about a year. I had to learn a few things to make it happen:

• I had to get Streamer.bot running on Linux
• I had to get the correct version of OBS Studio that supported the browser plugin
• I had to get Stremer.bot and OBS Studio talking
• I had to set up some Streamer.bot actions
• I had to setup my scenes in OBS
• I had to figure out (again) how to get my twitch chat displayed on my stream
• I created a Twitch bot account
• I had to play around with mic settings for noise suppression
• … and, so much more

Through the process I observed a few things. I noticed the differences in the process and individual software platforms that occurred naturally over the last year. But, more interestingly, I noticed I was going through a process of rediscovering skills and workflows that I had once taken for granted but had completely dumped from my memory.

I don’t think I really appreciate the ebb and flow of working knowledge.

Maybe some sort of accounting or recording of processes is necessary, but friction to documentation is probably the first barrier.