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

Can't recommend Fun Fun Function enough - awesome sense of humor and super informative. If you want to level up, you'll be a better developer watching one of these every week.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO1cgjhGzsSYb1rsB4bFe4Q

I <3 MPJ! He's the best.

Came here to post this channel. It jives well with my curiosity.

I was happily surprised to see him have 2 luna-lang videos come out less than a week after luna-lang made it on my to-play-with radar.

I have my own channel on YouTube for programming videos but I have to give credit to MPJ for being the excellent inspiration for me to start posting. His videos are both informative and entertaining.

I enjoy Bisqwit:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKTehwyGCKF-b2wo0RKwrcg

He often focuses on some pretty esoteric topics. In one video, he prototyped a simple 3d rendered in QBasic. I'm not sure if you pick up best practices from Bisqwit, but you'll probably learn some interesting programming techniques.

- DevTips (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyIe-61Y8C4_o-zZCtO4ETQ) for HTML and CSS. Some pretty things and a well-documented process (errors and all)

- CodingTrain (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvjgXvBlbQiydffZU7m1_aw) for JS is good. You know how you sometimes come across a video of a teacher, and go "man, I wish I had teachers like this when I was in school"? Well, this guy is like that - really enthusiastic and great to watch.

- Avelx (https://www.youtube.com/user/avelx) is another great channel! He explains JS and programming concepts very, very well.

Then, for some more advanced stuff (frameworks, libraries, etc) there's:

- LeanWebCode (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHRp19HU7Y2LwfI0Ai6WAGQ)

- Kirupa Chinnathambi (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZCQ3LXtU3IUzMBQBqN69KQ)

- Traversy Media (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC29ju8bIPH5as8OGnQzwJyA)

- TheNewBoston (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJbPGzawDH1njbqV-D5HqKw)

- Finally, I want to mention Steve Griffith for some lesser known JS methods and examples of great code (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTBGXCJHORQjivtgtMsmkAQ)

Thanks so much for the mention! - Steve Griffith

Fun Fun Function, the most dedicated programming show on youtube and on this world! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO1cgjhGzsSYb1rsB4bFe4Q

I like "The Coding Train" a lot. Very entertaining, the guy is fun. It might look not serious enough for some people but I personally learn a lot of things watching his videos.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvjgXvBlbQiydffZU7m1_aw

3blue1brown if you haven't already seen a vid of his yet I'd highly recommend it.

You wont see any code, but he explains computer science and math concepts really well.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYO_jab_esuFRV4b17AJtAw

TheHappieCat. She talks about various computer science topics, usually with a focus on games. She also occasionally does tutorials for engines/languages.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBsuOBu-dxj5bx1KMgmar5g

Computerphile, lots of their videos stay away from the details of code, but the concepts they talk about are fascinating.

https://www.youtube.com/user/Computerphile

Seconded. Came here to post Computerphile. What is your favorite video, btw? Mine is the series on Turing and the Enigma.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzH6n4zXuckodsatCTEux...

I generally find the videos from PyCon informative and the presenters are generally good at presenting.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrJhliKNQ8g0qoE_zvL8eVg

I really like the sense of humor and fun that Dan Shiffman has on The Coding Train: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvjgXvBlbQiydffZU7m1_aw

Bisqwit's video focusing on systems and graphics programming are total gems. https://www.youtube.com/user/Bisqwit/videos?view=0&flow=grid...

Not particularly useful for web developers which is what most programmers are nowdays, they will still blow your mind though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQYsFshbkYw

Traversy Media is an awesome resource for beginners and seasoned developers alike! Brad curates succinct tutorials all while humbly delivering the content in a way that makes it feel like you're pair programming with a buddy!

https://www.youtube.com/user/TechGuyWeb

If you're interested in Go, JustforFunc is pretty interesting: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_BzFbxG2za3bp5NRRRXJSw

The author covers some interesting and advanced details of Golang in an entertaining fashion.

I second that. You can even tweet Franscesc about possible topics and he will listen.

Agreed. I especially enjoy the code review episodes.

It could depend on which programming language one is using. For eg: I use python and I love sentdex. But it could be different depending upon your language of choice.

https://www.youtube.com/user/sentdex

I have a programming channel of my own where I do live programming streams: https://www.youtube.com/user/KingHerring I haven't seen anyone else do this. Check it out if you're into that sort of thing; I also plan on doing more tutorials when I have the time.

There's a lot of other good YouTubers I list on the channel's suggested channels sidebar.

EDIT: cbaggers is great for lisp weenies. He also does streams. https://www.youtube.com/user/CBaggers?app=desktop

James Long (jlongster) does this from time to time. I haven't watched any of his videos yet but I find it hard to believe that they wouldn't be interesting considering his talks/articles etc.

https://www.twitch.tv/jlongster

Coding Tech takes programming related talks from all types of conferences and aggregates them into their one channel. Always interesting and always high level.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtxCXg-UvSnTKPOzLH4wJaQ

Also, Siraj: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWN3xxRkmTPmbKwht9FuE5A

Siraj gives you the quick and dirty on how complex problems are solved with code. Not really tutorials, but more of a "how to" you can use to start your research.

I like Traversy Media, and The Net Ninja... Both are great with no extra yapping! Just straight forward coding and great examples!!

Hand made hero https://handmadehero.org

The Google Chrome Developers channel has great videos on various topics relating to web development: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnUYZLuoy1rq1aVMwx4aTzw

I enjoy Meth Meth Method a lot, he has a series of videos on making Super Mario Bros with vanilla JS

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8A0M0eDttdB11MHxX58vXQ

Academind is a good place to learn web-related things including HTML+CSS+JS, Angular, React and Vue

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSJbGtTlrDami-tDGPUV9-w

Professor Steve is my js guru! pretty cool explanation for a lot of concepts! https://www.youtube.com/c/SteveGriffith-Prof3ssorSt3v3

https://www.youtube.com/c/SteveGriffith-Prof3ssorSt3v3

This channel is awesome if your looking to learnt the basics of JS and other languages.

This is probably one of my favs even though I haven't been keeping up with it as much as I'd like:

https://www.youtube.com/user/shiffman

This guy is awesome, focuses in information theory/cryptography https://www.youtube.com/user/ArtOfTheProblem

Great coding tutorial by Steve Griffith: https://www.youtube.com/c/SteveGriffith-Prof3ssorSt3v3

Traversy media ++

Coding Tech

Derek Banas videos (for a quick 60 minute introduction to covered topics)

...among others

Sentdex is my favorite, learned python and django from him

LiveOverflow: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClcE-kVhqyiHCcjYwcpfj9w

Does a great job of explaining various software exploits, vulnerabilities, and other cool stuff