I'm actually holding back on some of the crazier bits so it doesn't seem to fly by. I don't use the reverse-i-search thing early in a session, for instance. This means I wind up typing out certain commands verbatim more often than I would in real life. Now, once I've used something once or twice I'll flip back in the history a line or two where appropriate, but that's about it. In real life, I use things like ^U ^W and ^Y far more than I do in those recordings.
Unfortunately, to truly capture how I normally work on things, I'd have to have it grab multiple windows in parallel. I don't normally drop out of my editor to run compilers. That's just something which happens for those "lessons".
These days I "drop out" of my editor with C-z to run compilers/system tools. That way you don't lose your editor state, but you also get the full shell (reverse-i search, etc) for whatever other tasks you're doing.
Just something that works for me; not sure if you've tried it. YMMV.
I suppose I could enable that while doing these recordings... or just use screen. Or hey, maybe I'll figure out the parallel recording situation and then it'll really be just like watching over my shoulder.
Unfortunately, to truly capture how I normally work on things, I'd have to have it grab multiple windows in parallel. I don't normally drop out of my editor to run compilers. That's just something which happens for those "lessons".