Binging with Babish is great- well done cooking videos, interesting things. I also like this guy JunsKitchen who cooks relaxing meals with his cats in the background. Finally Depression era cooking taught by a lovely grandmother named Clara, titled "Depression Era Cooking."
I enjoy youtube cooking shows, they help me relax (and give me ideas for fun weekend projects).
Four Eyes (amazing furniture builds), I like to make stuff, make something, April Wilkerson, Seth’s bike hacks, single track sampler, skills with Phil, BKXC, Alan Thrall, Buff Dudes
Basically a mix of wood working, mountain biking and weight lifting
Joe Rogan Experience (and occasionally other stand up comic podcasts like Your mom's house, Bill Burr etc) , Boxing Legends, Computer/Number-phile, umm sometimes I will watch TED and technology related talks.
smartereveryday I love (particularly the enthusiasm), numberphile too.
Anything (not a channel name, just anything) by Tom Scott, his recent gameshow has been pretty good as it's like Only Connect but I've got a better chance of answering the questions. Huge backlog of things too and as he's got more popular he's got more access to interesting places and things. Just seems like a genuinely nice guy explaining things he finds interesting. Probably worth starting with "things you might not know" or "amazing places".
CollegeHumor - can be hit and miss but the ratio is good enough for me. They did a series of a gameshow called "Umm actually" which was great.
Gus Johnson - never quite sure where I am on things going too far on these but it keeps me laughing and coming back.
3 Blue 1 Brown, it’s a mathematics channel with, as far as I’m concerned, unparalleled production quality.
He’s a Stanford Mathematician who covers everything in topics from topology, number theory, calculus with nothing required beyond High School/1st year undergraduate maths.
Also, his visualisations are nothing short of beautiful.
His linear algebra series is fantastic study material in helping poeple to picture just exactly what a linear transformation/determinant/eigenvalue looks like!
I run across 'Binging with babish' but word 'binging' always turned me off, so I would skip it. What got my wife and I to try some different cooking was chef John with foodwishes.com
I don't watch anything particularly, although after a stressful week I sometimes like to relax by getting mildly drunk and watching all those 'FAIL' YT clips.
However a few weeks ago I remember a HN article that linked to some Canadian who milled a nut and bolt out of potato. His clips were great and I don't even have a clue about engineering. Does anyone know who this is as I am having a hard time finding it again.?
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.
I cannot stress more, though, that his humor is an acquired taste. If his content and knowledge was any less I would have dropped him in a heartbeat. Maybe it’s just my culture, but the sexual overtone can go off the wall at times.
Seconded. I especially recommend his teardown of the Juicero, in which he displays his insights into design for manufacture, plastics, metallurgy, electrical engineering, etc, peppered with hilarious and insightful jabs at VC culture. For me, it's his masterpiece.
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.
"anyone in a position of authority". Hmmm. Let's bring him up on charges before the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, eh?
AvE is great, and if you watch enough of his episodes you'll see that the old-school jokes are matched by an acceptance of all, save, perhaps, the terminally censorious. I'm looking forward to seeing him teach his daughter to weld.
Alex French Guy Cooking is one of my favourite channels. Entertaining and informative and who else builds custom noodle-drying equipment for a series about instant ramen?
The turbo-charged camping stove wok burner is a bit alarming though. Just a bit.
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[ 4.1 ms ] story [ 188 ms ] threadI enjoy youtube cooking shows, they help me relax (and give me ideas for fun weekend projects).
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAL3JXZSzSm8AlZyD3nQdBA
Basically a mix of wood working, mountain biking and weight lifting
The GDC (Game Developers Conference) channel has a lot of material, but http://gdcvault.com/ recently opened up a ton more material for free viewing.
Two Minute Papers is obviously short-form, but very high quality.
NoClip has high-quality video game documentaries.
Anything (not a channel name, just anything) by Tom Scott, his recent gameshow has been pretty good as it's like Only Connect but I've got a better chance of answering the questions. Huge backlog of things too and as he's got more popular he's got more access to interesting places and things. Just seems like a genuinely nice guy explaining things he finds interesting. Probably worth starting with "things you might not know" or "amazing places".
CollegeHumor - can be hit and miss but the ratio is good enough for me. They did a series of a gameshow called "Umm actually" which was great.
Gus Johnson - never quite sure where I am on things going too far on these but it keeps me laughing and coming back.
exurb1a
ClarkeAndDawe - teaching me about Australian politics, one fake interview at a time. What got me into it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM
Bill Wurtz - Ranging from absurd 5 second clips to, well, this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuCn8ux2gbs
CasuallyExplained
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCe_ijwgvhtHQwQ55vsXDY8w
He’s a Stanford Mathematician who covers everything in topics from topology, number theory, calculus with nothing required beyond High School/1st year undergraduate maths.
Also, his visualisations are nothing short of beautiful.
[0] https://github.com/3b1b/manim
And Primitive Technology is mesmerizing.
The rest is mostly music or woodworking like bandstand, Chris Salomone.
However a few weeks ago I remember a HN article that linked to some Canadian who milled a nut and bolt out of potato. His clips were great and I don't even have a clue about engineering. Does anyone know who this is as I am having a hard time finding it again.?
EDIT: FOUnd him - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChWv6Pn_zP0rI6lgGt3MyfA
Great! Now I have something to look forward to tonight! XD
LazyGameReviews - Old PCs, peripherals, and software
ForgottenWeapons - the mechanics and history of the weapons of the past
AvE - Thorough teardowns of tools, fabricobbling, enginerding, etc
Extra Credits - Game design and more
Artifexian - Worldbuilding and some linguistics
Alliterative - Chasing down word etymologies
Alex French Guy Cooking - deeper dives into the technology and chemistry of cooking
Primitive Technology - what it says on the tin
AvE - Really informative and entertaining tear downs of equipment and shop talk
SV Seeker - fascinating vlog of someone building a big steel boat with the help of the internet
https://www.youtube.com/user/arduinoversusevil
I cannot stress more, though, that his humor is an acquired taste. If his content and knowledge was any less I would have dropped him in a heartbeat. Maybe it’s just my culture, but the sexual overtone can go off the wall at times.
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.
EDIT: added link
Describe it accurately- Low-brow sexual humor that anyone in a position of authority would deem unwelcoming to women
AvE is great, and if you watch enough of his episodes you'll see that the old-school jokes are matched by an acceptance of all, save, perhaps, the terminally censorious. I'm looking forward to seeing him teach his daughter to weld.
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/UCabq3No3wXbs6Ut-Pux6SzA
Steve Mould (science videos): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEIwxahdLz7bap-VDs9h35A
Jenna Marbles (I enjoy the "fuck it just do it" attitude): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9gFih9rw0zNCK3ZtoKQQyA
Primitive Technology: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAL3JXZSzSm8AlZyD3nQdBA
The turbo-charged camping stove wok burner is a bit alarming though. Just a bit.