
I Never Record Code Reviews Anymore — My Rust Tool Turns Any Git Diff Into a Video
Code reviews are the most text-heavy part of software development. Walls of green and red. Inline comments. "LGTM" after skimming 400 lines. What if you could watch a code review instead of reading it? The Problem Nobody Talks About Async code reviews lose context. You're staring at a diff, jumping between files, trying to reconstruct the story of the change. Why was this deleted? What does this new function connect to? Video walkthroughs solve this. Senior engineers record Loom videos walking through PRs all the time. But recording takes 10x longer than writing comments. You have to: Open a screen recorder Navigate to each file Talk through every change Edit out the "uh"s and wrong tabs Upload and share Nobody does this for every PR. So we're stuck with text diffs. One Command. Animated Walkthrough. patchcast --diff HEAD~1 -o review.mp4 That's it. PR URL in, MP4 out. patchcast reads any git diff — commit ranges, branch comparisons, .diff files — and generates an animated code walkthro
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