Writing Code like a Real Hacker (VS Code Macro Extension)

How To Become A 10x Programmer With This One Simple Trick...

What you will really learn about is a great VS Code extension that allows you to create macros and is useful for live coding.

Presented by Jani Eväkallio - Formidable Labs

Talk by Jani Eväkallio at the Reactive London October 2018 meetup.

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[googo]

"hackers hate him, because of this one simple trick..."

[ianpan]

Damn for a moment i thought he actually typed that fast LOL

[noahg]

This community is simply the best, they have all the very useful resources for free on their website, they are really doing something good for the society, God bless you people

[joeymcme]

all real hackers use vscode and javascript, sitting in front of their macbooks at the local starbucks

[richardmarin]

"real hackers don't use comments"

[lenz]

If programming don't result for him he can try stand up comedy.

[fahadus]

This actually sounds like a great extension. It'd be awesome if there are libraries of superior coders available which you can play on your screen to see the thought process while coding in kind of a timelapse.

[nepenthium]

"pray that NPM install works" <-- me every single time

[MubashirAR]

"Oh no no no Richard you misunderstood me. Come here. Whats your name?" 😂

[silvanpaul]

bet holywood is watching like "i dont know what the fuck this is but we need this for our movies"

[mateuszmikrut]

Well done. That was a best presentation I've ever seen.

[VivekYadav-dsoz]

I once tried making something similar in C++ when I was much younger. I made a string variable having value "I'm a fool and I can't resist to type this over and over again." and iterated over each element of the string using for loop. Had a good time confusing the shit out of people who thought that I made a program that asked their first name XD

[nirmal_kumar]

Pretty exciting to see the typing macros. It reminds me the early days of excel macros with VBA. It's also inspiring to build new extensions for vs code.

[cedricngoran]

Aaah in the first place, I wondered how someone can be so fast at typing and thinking but it was prerecorded, I got a good laugh 😂😂

[jasonhoi]

I am once thinking that drinking beer may make me type as fast as you!😂😂

[qaerdogan]

He was writing 10x faster than my code reading speed :)

[pauhull]

> "real" hacker
> Uses MacBook

[AnyWayICan]

I was thinking 'this is cool, I'm going to learn something useful and productive'. Then he blows right over my head at 4:00.

[ryce]

Me and my brain: Halfway through the video i was already planning how to improve my code writing speed to this level. Basically I was just setting my goal....thank god I watched till the end or I wouldve ventured into a pretty bad journey.
Touch typing rocks though, took me a month to get to 80 WPM. Try it...its so fast.

[xWes]

That story is exactly the same as mine. Everything kinda started back then. But then I found PHP, Python and etc. And then loaded to JS.