This year I had the pleasure of doing a Google I/O talk with John Ryan. Under the title “Building a package in Dart”, the aim was to showcase some of aspects involved when publishing packages on pub.dev. If you’re interested you can watch the video on youtube, or embedded below:

The talk was pre-recorded, as I wasn’t near a studio I recorded my part of the talk in my garage. And when it is clean my garage is just white walls, which doesn’t make for the coolest backdrop. So I stacked a bunch of cheap cardboard boxes for use as a background.

I obviously, did this so that I could introduce by myself by saying: “Hi, I’m Jonas, I work on package delivery, not this kind of packages”, while pointing on the boxes stacked up behind me. I will confess that this is an extraordinarily lame joke! In any case, I hope you enjoyed watching the joke as much as I enjoyed making it.

I haven’t really made this kind of video before. A it was a lot of fun, and hard work. At the end of the recording I had surprisingly little voice left, how people do longer recordings I don’t know. But this experience certainly gave me a lot of respect for youtubers doing hours of scripted video.