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Ask HN: Share your favorite YouTube channels focused on mastering a skill/craft
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#32Hardware stuff is interesting to me/not what I do for a job (would like to). I like watching people who work with it naturally like it's easy. Ben Heck Hacks Curious Marc Great Scott There's more idk if it's what you're looking for but yeah I try to watch more useful content but I still watch let's play type stuff.
Ben Heck helped me through hard times when I was struggling to remember why I ever was interested in engineering in the first place. He reminded me that it's not just about skill grinding and solving hard problems and business applications. There's also fun to be had.
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#33I have a number to share, maybe not all quite perfecting craft, but enjoyable for me! I did try narrowing to ones a bit more relating to learning or improving skills. Sustainable Gardening, Self Sufficient Me General cooking, Adam Ragusea Seafood Cooking, Kimagure Cook Chocolate mastery (demonstrations), Amaury Guichon 3D Printing Tips, Teaching Tech & CNC Kitchen Everything Coffee Related, James Hoffman
Do you have any suggestions for channels that are good for beginner cooks?
I just got my first job in a new city and realized I have no idea how to cook anything other than eggs & chicken
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#34Gary's Best Gardening for anything plant related. More lecture style videos, but incredible knowledge. https://www.youtube.com/@GarysBestGardening
Weaver Leather Supply from Chuck Dorsett for anything leather related. https://www.youtube.com/@WeaverLeatherSupply
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#35Awesome restorations https://m.youtube.com/@AwesomeRestorations
I also recently found https://youtube.com/@KyleRoyerKnives
From his video making this sword https://youtu.be/53_cuLhObr8
It was fascinating to see the details and the work required to make one sword.
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#36For sewing Victorian and Edwardian clothes with period appropriate techniques: https://www.youtube.com/@bernadettebanner
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#37I have a number to share, maybe not all quite perfecting craft, but enjoyable for me! I did try narrowing to ones a bit more relating to learning or improving skills. Sustainable Gardening, Self Sufficient Me General cooking, Adam Ragusea Seafood Cooking, Kimagure Cook Chocolate mastery (demonstrations), Amaury Guichon 3D Printing Tips, Teaching Tech & CNC Kitchen Everything Coffee Related, James Hoffman
Do you have any suggestions for channels that are good for beginner cooks? I just got my first job in a new city and realized I have no idea how to cook anything other than eggs & chicken
Adam Ragusea is a goldmine of well explained recipes that you could actually cook on a regular basis, even for things like weeknight meals. He tends to emphasize understanding and intuition and using your senses over exact measurement, this is how people are able to cook quickly and with lower mental overhead. Often you have to measure the first time you make a dish to get calibrated, and then can just wing it after that.
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#38I think you set the bar to high, because My Mechanics is the best restoration channel IMO, but here my list:
StezStixFix a very funny channel about fixing electronics, mostly SMD stuff over microscope: https://youtube.com/@StezStixFix
Baumgartner for fine art restoration: https://youtube.com/@BaumgartnerRestoration
Sebastian Lague for game development videos: https://youtube.com/@SebastianLague
Our Painted Lives for oil painting: https://youtube.com/@OurPaintedLives
I could keep the list forever (maybe I spend to much time in YouTube)
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#39Not a technical skill, but in the self improvement genre - Colin Murray’s channel https://m.youtube.com/@colinmurrayYT/videos is great for people who like exercising from home, without investing a lot in equipments and weight. Has helped me exercise more regularly compared to past years. And then for one of my hobbies https://m.youtube.com/@idaemonplasmo for building better model kit aircrafts. Not sure if they are m…
Plasmo is great, his videos are so relaxing to watch
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#40scotty kilmer. does not teach ‘mastery’ but he teach much about what to look at when buying car..have car issue..avoid get scam by mechanic. his speaking style like old grandpa. very enjoyable and improve my ability to understand spoken english too so not use chatgpt when doing work
Scotty is entertaining and informative, but you gotta be careful with that guy when it comes to actual car repair because he's very opinionated and overly willing to play the algorithm game. It's a true rarity for a car brand to actually be "junk", but Scotty doesn't think so, and it would be a shame if people bought cars based on his opinion. He thinks Hyundais are all bad, but I and countless others love our Hyundais. Relying on the suspension as safety when jacking up a car is also pretty dangerous advice. Even if Scotty got away all these years without using a full set of jack stands, that doesn't mean other people will have the same sense of how to do dangerous things and live.
I do like his occasional presentation style videos, though. Whether you agree with him or not, the ones on electric cars are well made and entertaining.