I just watched lichess founder Thibault live-coding lichess on twitch. The stream had about 10 viewers. Blows my mind that such minds are accessible if you know where to look.<p>Others I treasure are: john romero (twitch), george hotz (twitch), and stephen wolfram (twitch, youtube).<p>The latter also has astonishingly low viewer numbers (typically <20).<p>What other lesser-known gems are out there?
Jon Gjengset is great for educational Rust content.<p>“Tsoding Daily/Tsoding” on YouTube/Twitch is entertaining and covers a very wide range of topics. I don’t think he’s “classically trained” per se, but he’s knowledgeable and great at solving interesting problems.<p>I haven’t checked it out yet, but I think Ryan Carniato (the creator of SolidJS) streams live coding on YouTube too.
Andreas Kling of Serenity OS -- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/AndreasKling" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/c/AndreasKling</a><p>Andrew Kelley of Zig -- <a href="https://www.twitch.tv/andrewrok" rel="nofollow">https://www.twitch.tv/andrewrok</a><p>Really enjoy watching both of them work, and they're both so... calm, cool, and collected in their focus on the technology they're working on as opposed to 'content creation.'
Big George Hotz enjoyer but lately I’ve been trying to catch every stream from this guy “tokyospliff” - <a href="https://youtube.com/@tokyospliff" rel="nofollow">https://youtube.com/@tokyospliff</a><p>He does graphics programming, writing his own game engine from in C++ using OpenGL. The vibe in his streams is really something else, very interesting guy.
Also enjoy hotz due to ranting.<p>(Actually I'd consume more of that kind of content ie unpolished, quick videos. To me, the signal-to-noise is higher on videos like <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovNZU-gzr6A" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovNZU-gzr6A</a> than videos like <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81fAtiORLAg" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81fAtiORLAg</a>, which seem to take 99% of youtube)
There's a fairly substantial Demoscene live coding community with shader coding and non-competitive jams (with an archive here: <a href="https://livecode.demozoo.org/" rel="nofollow">https://livecode.demozoo.org/</a>)<p>You can take a look at the final of the Shader Showdown at Revision last year here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJ7KAD0NyGw" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJ7KAD0NyGw</a><p>There's a TIC-80 'bytejam' every Monday Night (8 or 9pm UK time depending on the week) on <a href="https://www.twitch.tv/fieldfxdemo" rel="nofollow">https://www.twitch.tv/fieldfxdemo</a><p>And you can catch some previous VODs here: <a href="https://scenesat.com/videoarchive" rel="nofollow">https://scenesat.com/videoarchive</a>
Dave Plummer but I’m way beyond the median age for HN. Would appreciate similar recommendations. Though I respect them, people like ThePrimeagen and Theo-t3.gg are too high energy for my tastes.<p><a href="https://youtube.com/@DavesGarage?feature=shared" rel="nofollow">https://youtube.com/@DavesGarage?feature=shared</a>
Jonathan Blow, currently coding a new programming language, and, in parallel to the language development, a commercial-quality AA game in this language as a proof of concept.
Tenderlove (Aaron Patterson) from the Ruby and Rails core team does live streaming every now and then, with some good guests from the Ruby community.<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@TenderlovesCoolStuff" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/@TenderlovesCoolStuff</a><p>Some examples:<p>Writing a test framework: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmi-SWeH4MA" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmi-SWeH4MA</a>
Hacking on the Prism compiler: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6loKD2LXxbc" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6loKD2LXxbc</a>
It tried doing some coding videos a while back mostly to make up for not having colleagues. Live coding is stupidly hard. I admire anyone who pulls it off.
Al Sweigart (Automate the boring stuff, Recursive book of recursion…) live codes on YT (<a href="https://youtube.com/@AutomateTheBoringStuff" rel="nofollow">https://youtube.com/@AutomateTheBoringStuff</a>)
Tsoding has nice YouTube videos on original topics: customizing TempleOs, writing a snake game in the bootloader, writing FE code in C. It's virtual insanity at its finest.