Create initial public videos for Grace

There are a number of videos I’d like to record and publish about Grace in the coming months.

Each of these videos will be released as they’re completed. This is a draft list, but something like:

• Basic demo of grace watch and basic repository usage between two users
• Architectural deep-dive, including Dapr
• F# and functional constructs that make Grace’s code easier to understand and more maintainable
• Things I’ve learned (and sometimes rewritten) along the way
• Walkthrough of the concepts in each .NET project in Grace

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[ScottArbeit]

@houstonhaynes Thank you so much! I’m both incredibly looking forward to welcoming contributors, and <shifts uncomfortably in my seat> a little behind in making it a welcoming experience for everyone. It’s been solo until now, so I have to quick cleanup to do before I can get others working well on it, but that’s my next set of tasks, hopefully in the next week. I’ll let you know when that’s done.

As for the video stuff, I look forward to your feedback on what I create, and happy to have it. Gonna film with a phone cam as the high-quality-for-face one, and my trusty Logitech C922 for a front-angle I can change to, and I have a good RØDE mic. Now I just have to do the damn recordings…

[houstonhaynes]

I just saw your NDC presentation and am hooked! (Incidentally I too have found GitHub co-pilot to have odd blindspots with suggesting F# - and - I too have had to go to ChatGPT - thinking it would come up empty - but has had a surprisingly good hit rate)

I’ve been working with similar ES/Actor based patterns in F# - focusing on Akka.NET (Akkling mainly, but sniffing around Wakka) and Marten/Wolverine (dubbed by Jeremy Miller as “the critter stack”) as the event/document store and message bus.

To the point here: I too am working on video production for streaming/channel distribution online - for a general “Glad Scientist” podcast/channel as well as my own “FSharpNotes” blog. I’m doing similar production with a handful of phone cameras and one or two “good” web cams. My post tool is Vegas - I was at Sony Pictures Digital back in the aughts when they owned that constellation of apps and I’ve kept those licenses active ever since. I’ve spent more time on learning to transfer SVG paths to a logo builder than editing multi-cam. 😸

I’ll be 👀 ing your code and trying to catch up a bit - my current focus is with Elmish.Avalonia - MVU with “standard” XAML forms. That’s a long way of saying that I’d love to pitch in on this project at some point while also keeping my own metaphorical plates “spinning”. If there’s a point at which I could help you with “fan out” of video production or post-processing, I’d love to help.