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Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite YouTube channel for developers?

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Post by swiftisthebest »

llSourcell wrote: post #73
petercooper wrote: post #12

https://www.youtube.com/bisqwit is by far my favorite and I've spent many hours watching him. He does things like create a Doom-style engine from scratch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQYsFshbkYw .. create a NES emulator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y71lli8MS8s .. work back from a C++17 example to show why new C++ standards are needed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrwwa68JXNk .. and even building a Tetris c…

Glad my channel has helped you guys. I quit my job at Twilio to do this full-time. I'm on a warpath to educate and inspire the shit out of everyone. Human readable link: https://www.youtube.com/c/sirajology (I am Siraj, hi everyone)

I do not like your intro and I think your hair is stupid.

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite YouTube channel for developers?

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Post by wingerlang »

JasoonS wrote: post #125
sotojuan wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I feel bad about fff because I really can't stand MPJ's humor or style of presentation but I know he's a great teacher. One day I'll get over it, but for now I'm just glad he's there to help!

Honestly, the appeal to me of FFF (hands down my favourite programming youtube channel) is his quirky sense of humour. Each to his own. The more quirky someone is the more polarising to their fan-base they are, I suppose.

Looking at his channel (thumbnails, header etc) makes me think of the usual clickbaity channels on YT.

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite YouTube channel for developers?

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Post by thesoonerdev »

MadWombat wrote: post #88

I do not, in fact, have a favorite YT channel for developers. I hate with a fiery passion the recent fad of making everything that is supposed to be text, maybe text with a few pictures into a video. You cannot search a video. You cannot skim a video. You cannot copy and paste code sample from a video. You cannot watch it offline as easily as you can read a page.

I created a note-taker app for videos but never had the time to make it into something more useful. They are not transcripts, of course, because those would take a whole lot longer to create. It is hosted on GitHub pages for now.

http://www.videojots.com

Just curious - and I am asking anyone here who feels similarly, if someone created a list of these "notes" for a given channel on YouTube, would you be more likely to sit through the videos?

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite YouTube channel for developers?

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Post by chris_wot »

auston wrote: post #101
llSourcell wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Glad my channel has helped you guys. I quit my job at Twilio to do this full-time. I'm on a warpath to educate and inspire the shit out of everyone. Human readable link: https://www.youtube.com/c/sirajology (I am Siraj, hi everyone)

Cool! Been a fan ever since you started posting to the HN FB group!

There's a HN FB group?

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite YouTube channel for developers?

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Post by chris_wot »

swiftisthebest wrote: post #131
llSourcell wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Glad my channel has helped you guys. I quit my job at Twilio to do this full-time. I'm on a warpath to educate and inspire the shit out of everyone. Human readable link: https://www.youtube.com/c/sirajology (I am Siraj, hi everyone)

I do not like your intro and I think your hair is stupid.

My cat's breath smells like cat food.

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite YouTube channel for developers?

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Post by markatkinson »

yexponential wrote: post #15

Youtube.com/thenewboston something very soothing about his videos and humor

Bucky! It has been many years since I saw that name. Made me smile, it is where all my real programming started. I would love to send him something out of gratification.

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite YouTube channel for developers?

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Post by imaginenore »

swah wrote: post #127

Can we go meta? Youtube is doing a lazy job at making me watch more Youtube. I receive notifications for certain channels while I'm at work - later at home, I have no idea how to watch "most interesting stuff from the last days" in a easy way. Then I go open channels manually! Come on! They can easily improve and win the TV and Netflix on the living room... all the creative content is there. Show me some sort of auto…

YouTube is huge. If you just search the videos from the last week and sort by the number of views, there will be lots of stuff from the popular YouTubers that you don't care for, like makeup tutorials, reactions, some 15 year old ranting incoherently.

YouTube main page has recommended videos, which, if you use YouTube regularly, it not bad at all - it learns from your voting and viewing habits.

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite YouTube channel for developers?

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Post by swah »

imaginenore wrote: post #137
swah wrote: post #127

Can we go meta? Youtube is doing a lazy job at making me watch more Youtube. I receive notifications for certain channels while I'm at work - later at home, I have no idea how to watch "most interesting stuff from the last days" in a easy way. Then I go open channels manually! Come on! They can easily improve and win the TV and Netflix on the living room... all the creative content is there. Show me some sort of auto…

YouTube is huge. If you just search the videos from the last week and sort by the number of views, there will be lots of stuff from the popular YouTubers that you don't care for, like makeup tutorials, reactions, some 15 year old ranting incoherently. YouTube main page has recommended videos, which, if you use YouTube regularly, it not bad at all - it learns from your voting and viewing habits.

Sure, but at least the channels I subscribe and have notifications turned on.. (notifications turned on = strong signal that I care about those). Etc.
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