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- Kurzegast in a nutshell, this is videos are incredible.
- Coding Tech, for some tech conference
- Infographics Show, similiar to Kurzegast.
- Nerdwriter1, Lesson from the Screenplay, Screen Prism (All of this)
- Crash Course
- Ted and Ted-ed
Alex French Guy Cooking (French guy cooks food): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPzFLpOblZEaIx2lpym1l1A Look Mum No Computer (energetic young person makes synths and circuit bends): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCafxR2HWJRmMfSdyZXvZMTw Kris Cochrane (electronics hobbyist): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh8JiW2G9yR2v7TwUm04m_g The TRY Channel (Irish people try stuff): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCabq3No3w…
The turbo-charged camping stove wok burner is a bit alarming though. Just a bit.
LGR (aka Lazy Game Reviews)
The 8-Bit Guy
Nostalgia Nerd
RetroManCave
I'm specifically in love with the techniques used by games in that era, and GameHut has some interesting explanations of how he and other developers pulled off some of the tricks they did on the Genesis and Saturn. I really wish there were more channels doing things like that.
Ben Eater has an interesting series on building a computer from ICs.
ScottManley plays a whole lot of Kerbal Space Program and talks about rocket science.
I also watch a few LPers: ChipCheezumLPs, StrawHatNo, MenDrinkinCoffee. They're just interesting and/or funny. I'd dig an informative and exclusively DOS/8-bit micro era LPer I'd think.
Is it just me, or is Youtube completely terrible about discoverability and recommendations? It only seems to recommend me things I've already watched or people who yell a lot.
apetor has goofy videos of him ice skating and swimming that can be soothing in an odd way: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHnK83dqyPvFo6GX0rCwn8A
Then a bunch others in the technology space including several from Google are very good. Usually also watch most of the Google I/O videos for sessions was not able to attend.
But then I also watch Josh Lloyd during the NBA basketball season.
There is this balance between the person doing the video and then the content. I find myself more and more needing a decent person doing the video unless it is super compelling content.
Tom Scott, I think a lot of us watch Tom Scott!
Steve Mould, doing science stuff
Minute Physics, doing short and accessible Sharpie-drawing animated explanations of various interesting concepts in physics
Techmoan does some good videos on retro audio technology. And other things, but those are the ones I watch apart from the occasional interesting kitchen gadget review (yes, someone makes an appliance designed solely to cook bacon. No, you shouldn't buy one).
The Gaming Historian, well-researched videos about various bits of gaming history (the latest being an exploration of the Sega 32X).
8-bit Theory, a channel exploring game soundtracks from a musical theory perspective, including videos exploring things like why Mario's soundtrack sounds so happy, how the sax solo in a particular track in Mario Kart 8 works, or how themes evolve through multiple iterations of a particular franchise.
Retrohistories, another gaming history channel, doesn't produce a lot but I like what he does do. Although I should mention, he's a friend of mine!
Guilliame Erard has some very interesting videos about aikido, footage from various demonstrations by prominent aikidoka, interviews, etc. One recent video I found very interesting indeed was an exploration of daito-ryu aikijujitsu, the immediate ancestor of aikido.
I also watch a whole load of Minecraft players, either for building ideas and techniques, information on redstone (although someone needs to actually write this all up somewhere in a coherent fashion, I have never been able to find such a document if it exists already, it's clearly in people's heads), or just the gameplay videos from various things (mostly Minecraft Evolution or other series by the people who are involved in the Evolution SMP - I am for example watching almost everything NettyPlays is putting out at the moment).
What I don't watch regularly is anything about programming.
AvE is great. His humor is a bit of an acquired taste, and not in a good way, but he’s definitely knowledgeable in a field I’m completely unfamiliar with. He does a lot of incredible tear downs and evaluations of power tools and other things like that with pretty stunning analysis. https://www.youtube.com/user/arduinoversusevil I cannot stress more, though, that his humor is an acquired taste. If his content and know…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Cp-BGQfpHQ
My wife recently watched all 45 minutes and was entertained throughout, despite her not being technical at all.
Speaking of which, I also share a distaste for his "engineering boys club" sense of humour. I think his heart is in the right place (though who knows?), but it's definitely from another era, one that I won't be sad to see fade off into the distance. That being said, the rest of the components of his humour (obscure Canadianisms, etc) are great and I enjoy the particularity of it.
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This may be an unpopular opinion, but none. Maybe it’s because I haven’t really used YouTube much, but there seem to be very few content producers that deliver content which is based on any form of scientific methodology or even any form of real journalism. I can quickly find a ton of “documentaries” on Ancient Rome for instance, and I have watched quite a few. I happen to have made the rare mix of CS and history whe…
Mark Furneaux - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRDQEDxAVuxcsyeEoOpSoRA
He does Homelab-style networking, linux, and server management, but also does very detailed teardowns of random or eccentric electronics. For someone like me with very little EE background, he explains the circuitry and the industrial design in a very digestible and interesting way. His teardown of an old traffic controller PSU is one of my favorites (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-F7nKoNqjM).