Getting screencasting.com ready for relaunch

Hey y’all, I'm back in the office this week with one mission: get [screencasting.com](http://Screencasting.com) ready for relaunch. I originally launched the site about a year and a half ago. Since then? It's just been cruising along on autopilot. But now that Steve and I have joined forces under the Try Hard Studios banner, we're pouring energy into it like never before. We’re trying to build the number one destination for people looking to level up their screencasting skills. Courses on how to screencast, how to edit with ScreenFlow, Final Cut Pro, Premiere, *and* DaVinci. We're also commissioning experts to create courses on OBS and Screen Studio. Notice what we're *not* doing? Trying to become experts at every piece of software ourselves. That's a fool's errand. Instead, we're finding people who already live and breathe these tools and giving them a platform to share their expertise. Are you one of those people? Do you have an idea for a course about creating video tutorials or anything in the meta-universe of content creation? Shoot me an email. Maybe we can strike a deal! Seriously. I want to hear from you. --- ### Thoughts from the week My wife and I have four kids under four. Two sets of twins. It used to be four kids under three, which was even crazier. For the past 18 months, we've had help in the form of an au pair – a young woman from Germany who moved in and became part of our family. But her visa just ran out, and she's gone back home. The kids are confused. Last night they asked me, "Is Jasmin going to wake us up in the morning?" I had to explain that Jasmin went back to see her mommy and daddy. "Her mommy and daddy miss her a lot," my daughter said. Pretty smart kid. It's been tough for Jennifer and me too. We loved Jasmin, and she loved our kids right back. It feels like the final episode of a sitcom when everyone moves out of the apartment. You sit there thinking, "Man, we had it good for a while, didn't we?" Life moves on, ready or not. Sometimes events force you to acknowledge that one chapter is closing and another one is opening. The next chapter will no doubt be great, but so was the last one. --- ### Tweets from the week [](https://x.com/BdKozlovski/status/1907061100111413357) I love coming across articles or tweets like this that expose what scale really is and how adorable my little web apps are in comparison. S3 is operating at a level that I cannot comprehend. There was [another good article](https://netflixtechblog.com/globalizing-productions-with-netflixs-media-production-suite-fc3c108c0a22) about scaling that was talking about how Netflix handles all of its footage and how some episodes can have up to 700 terabytes of footage just for a single episode and all the stuff they have to do to make that work. I highly recommend giving that a read as well. --- [](https://x.com/excid3/status/1906745384317104359?s=42) [](https://x.com/laracasts/status/1905624227882934650) Education is not dead apparently! I like seeing these two guys continue to push forward their respective platforms. [Laracasts](https://laracasts.com) is in the Laravel ecosystem obviously, while Chris Oliver operates in the Rails ecosystem with [GoRails](https://gorails.com/). One thing I think is interesting about this is Chris Oliver is putting this on a dedicated domain instead of rolling it into his learning platform. I don't really know why, but that is a route that we have gone down at Try Hard Studios, where each course has its own dedicated domain. I feel like for us this means that we don't have to continually produce content because we're not charging a monthly subscription for videos and so people can buy the course and get exactly what they want. This Laracasts tweet is amazing because the pay is just so high. $20,000 for a course! He clarifies in a later tweet that this is not normally what he pays for commissions, but I think he's viewing this as a flagship course. Funny to see both of these tweets in a week! I take a lot of inspiration from both of these guys and their platforms. --- [](https://x.com/delba_oliveira/status/1840768815585472788) I don't know the first thing about React, but I know that some of the best video creators end up in that ecosystem! This one from Delba really caught my eye thanks to the beautiful graphic / motion design. The camera, editing, lighting, etc are all good as well, but those graphics really add a bunch! Another super talented video maker in the Next.js space is [Alex Sidorenko](https://x.com/asidorenko_). Both of them are worth a follow, even if you aren't a React enjoyer. --- [](https://x.com/nathanbarry/status/1906705523711603175?s=46) Okay, don't make fun of me, but I couldn't figure out how to make this screenshot even remotely readable, so you'll have to take my word for it. Nathan Barry of [ConvertKit](http://kit.com/) fame (now, [Kit](http://kit.com/)) created a massive teleprompter that seems way overkill, which means I obviously love it. The main problem with a teleprompter this size is that you'll still see your eyes moving on camera because you're still looking left to right. But that may not be an issue for his use case! Either way, we do love a little bit of a DIY project. --- [](https://x.com/daltonc/status/1907188408411410873) This is a right down the middle tweet for me! I totally agree with all of this. I'm actually working on a longer article about being an optimist and how that doesn't make me an idiot. I like the framing here as a "clear-eyed optimist." The thing that I'm always trying to communicate, and now trying to capture in an article, is that you can be shrewd and be an optimist. You can notice reality and operate within it while still believing that it's going to work out. While I'm still trying to find the perfect words to put in the article, this tweet does sum it up pretty well. --- ### This week at Try Hard Studios 📷 **Image proxy** I wrote an article about creating an image proxy in Laravel. The idea? Build a system that scales images on demand and then lets Cloudflare cache them for 30 days. And get this – it actually got a good reception on Reddit. Wild right? You can read the whole thing here: . 🖼️ **Course teaser** Steve tweeted a few teaser pictures of the new Premier course landing page he's working on and, surprising no one, it looks stunning. Go check it out: [https://x.com/steve\_tenuto/status/1907982925314011359](https://x.com/steve_tenuto/status/1907982925314011359) --- That’s it for this week! 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