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Utterly wholesome is the perfect description. It's an instant click from me any time his videos (or hn posts) pop up.

I get the same feeling from Jeff's videos I did when I watched PBS as a kid. That's not a dig; I find his videos extremely calming, informative, and well produced. The man radiates positivity and kindness.

That's a rarity these days on YouTube. Presumably "high energy" content does better algorithmically, but for me personally the false enthusiasm, or manufactured outrage trends grow old rather quick.

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Maybe a minor thing, but also interesting to highlight Raspberry Pi blog layout, not polluted with "subscribe me please" crap.

Quite reassuring that there are still nice places on the internet.

But it still has cookie popup crap right ?

That is legally required in some places, I guess.

Because of the tracking scripts.

Not really, it is only legally required if you act badly.

It's not legally required to use cookies. They could just not use cookies.

Actually, you got a point.

Jeff is awesome, and only mentioning it because I have the same experience with Adrian Black's videos (Adrian's Digital Basement.)

I would have killed for this kind of content as a youth.

A bit different, but this is why I like watching Decino [1] who makes WAD playthroughs and analysis videos of Doom.

No yelling or clickbait titles, just someone calmly playing Doom and while explaining game mechanics and level design.

1. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=G7ueWjVFJo8

Not like that damned Red Shirt Jeff. I don't trust THAT guy at all.

RSJ got promoted to management. Twice.

Red Shirt Jeff forever!!!!

https://redshirtjeff.com/

No yelling, clickbait or scandals, it's actually great.

Regarding scandals, I'm glad he stopped mixing extreme religious ideologies with tech content on the blog.

He also seems to be brand loyal, but I'm being too harsh.

I posted elsewhere; the blog started off in 2003-ish on HTML, then Xanga, migrated to Thingamablog (Static Site Generator before it was cool), then Drupal.

I started writing on the blog 20 years ago while in high school and college. I like leaving up the old to help people see not everyone comes straight out of the womb with the same maturity and style of someone in their 30s/40s.

I still have a lot to learn, and I imagine I would say the same thing when I hit my 40 year blogiversary :)

No, I don’t think that’s too harsh. I’m in agreement with you on both those points. I still watch his videos but am now more aware of the context influencing the content.

Heaven forbid someone shares their sincere religious beliefs on their personal blog.

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