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With CodeMic you can record and share coding sessions directly inside your editor.

Think Asciinema, but for full coding sessions with audio, video, and images.

While replaying a session, you can pause at any point, explore the code in your own editor, modify it, and even run it. This makes following tutorials and understanding real codebases much more practical than watching a video.

Local first, and open source.

p.s. I’ve been working on this for a little over two years and would love to hear your thoughts.

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Bishonen88
I know I've seen something like this on hackernews before. SaaS for taking over the IDE at any point of a recording, just without the video.

EDIT: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28207662

Seems this but with a slightly different spin?

EDIT2: Gave it a go. Works as intended, so good job on that. The video being a video, makes it a bit awkward though - if I stop the recording and edit some part, I'd want to see the changes live, but for that I guess I'd have to start the server myself? And when I hit play, my changes got deleted anyway (?).

As for the usefulness aspect, personally I am not sure that this has a benefit over e.g. watching youtube tutorials/following books. I watched one of the videos and I'd have to concentrate on the video, the text and audio at the same time, and it wouldn't be me typing the code anyway, so I'm not sure how much I'd remember of it. I'd have to stop, open a new project and try to rewrite it myself to memorize the concepts deeper. But that's just my personal take - might be that there's a big userbase for such interactive learning!

exceptione
Interesting concept, had never seen something like this. Demo video was short and to the point, well done!
small_model
Coding session these days is someone typing into Claude Code and waiting. I think this would have been a decent idea a few years ago. Humans typing code into an editor is going to be as rare as debugging assembly.
yurii_l
Already waiting on twitch ASMR coders that will use your tool =)
cgonzar3
Looks like a great idea, specially for learning
mikemarsh
> A sanctuary from AI and vibe coding, focused on human engineering

Big fan of this project for this reason alone. I hope over the next few years we'll see this more and more not just as an implementation detail, but a public branding sentiment that like-minded coders, consumers or even (if we're living in fantasy-land) business clients can rally behind.

eddyg
Somewhat related (and seems like a lot of folks don't know about) is VS Code's "Code Tour" feature: https://github.com/microsoft/codetour

The best part is the ability to easily edit, delete, and re-order "tour points".

Tours can either be checked into the repo or exported to a "tour file" to allows anyone to replay the same tour (without having to clone any code to do it!)

catchmeifyoucan
This looks great! I'm trying to open a video to test it out. My VSCode seems to open, but the session doesn't launch. Am I missing something?