I use markdown and VSCode for slides - a podcast by Kent C. Dodds

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Hello friends you may have noticed that sometimes I use my editor as myslides in lots of the talks that I've given over the last few years and
that was originally inspired by André Staultz who has the a blog post onhis website called your IDE as a presentation tool where he kind of
explains why he has done that and it's a good blog post you can take a look
at that and even gives tips on how to do this effectively and stuff.But I would just thought I'd mention why I like doing this. I actually am
working on some slides right now for.A talk that I'm giving and I I've gone
through so many different ways of making slides like I started with youknow, Google Drive and or PowerPoint and and went on to I actually used
Prezi for a while which was fun and and slides.com is probably where mostof my slides are and I really like that one quite a bit.
I've made things simple. I used MDX deck tried to code my slides. And
finally, I've kind of landed at using my editor for my,Slides because I
think that just makes the most sense or it's just the the easiest for the
types of presentations that I make which involve me moving my cursor aroundthe screen highlighting text and maybe even adding text especially if I
have some code samples or stuff or I want to like demo something.It's all just right there in my editor I can type and add things and it
just makes things a lot a lot easier and I would be lying if I didn't add
or if I didn't say that there's a piece of me that kind of likes this
approach because it's just,Way easier to make these kinds of slides.
And I sometimes see people who make just the most beautiful slides slidedecks, and and everything is custom often like related to the conference
specifically and and I am really impressed by that stuff and I think it's
awesome and if that's something that you want to get into that's super
great and I'm yeah, I'm impressed by that.
That making things look good is a real struggle point for me and thinkingabout like animations and stuff like that too.When I did MDX stack I
struggled a lot with making things responsive so that it would look goodregardless of the size of my screen and stuff and it was just such a pain.
So using my editor just gives me a lot of benefits and then I don't have to
worry about all the extra things that I struggle with. I use markdown forpretty much every slide and then sometimes I'll have a gif in there as
technically a slide. And you can take a look at this blog post that I'll
add a link to to get a better idea of how I do this.Anyway, I just thought I'd share that.Maybe give it a try. See ya.

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