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Ask HN: Favorite live coding channels for intermediate/advanced topics?

147 points by deilline ↗ HN
I've found watching someone else code is immensely helpful and I was looking for more content like this. I saw some recommended in a different thread, so I thought I'd ask the broader audience.

Most of the content I see is aimed towards beginners so I was looking for context for experienced developers.

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yes_but_no
Yuri Artyukh, mostly threejs, webgl stuff https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDo7RTzizoOdPjY8A-xDR7g , although I'm not experienced enough to judge if its actually intermediate.

Jon Gjengset, Rust (internals, data structure, protocol impls) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_iD0xppBwwsrM9DegC5cQQ

aarthifical, not really live-coding but a game devlog with interesting ideas https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtEwVJZABCd0tels2KIpKGQ

vagrantJin
Yuri is definitely not beginner stuff. Intermediate to advanced I'd say.
peterkos
+1 to Jon Gjengset; I learned a lot about clearly explaining programming concepts and a theoretical problem!
alongub
Not exactly a channel, but a few weeks ago I did a live coding session on how to build an ML platform from scratch (the stuff you need to get ML models to production):

https://youtu.be/s8Jj9gzQ3xA

citeguised
There‘s Jon Blow working on his new language JAI and game-dev:

https://twitch.tv/j_blow

Another channel is Casey Muratori‘s Handmade Hero, which is about developing a game from scratch.

https://twitch.tv/handmade_hero

https://handmadehero.org/

vagrantJin
Casey is still going?

My god...

pests
I said the same thing last year... I scroll thru some of his updates mostly just trying to see the state of the game. Honestly I don't think much has changed gameplay or graphics wise for many hundreds of episodes.
andrewf
https://www.youtube.com/user/hjalfi/videos has gems like:

   Hjalfi writes a vi for CP/M (9 hours)
   Hjalfi writes an assembler (7 hours)
   Hjalfi ports Fuzix to the ESP8266 (38 hours)
ellipsis_12
You forgot the best one:

Hjalfi writes a lunar lander game for the Apollo Lunar Lander: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHDkWppysQI (9 hours)

Very highly recommended even if it doesn't seem like your cup of tea based on the title. It goes quite deep into the practical aspects of the crazy architecture of the Apolo Lunar Lander Guidance Computer.

mejutoco
I do something like this, although not live. These are real intermediate projects on video, with code. Without omitting any step.

So far I have a course on publishing a pip package and a cron implemented with aws lambda.

https://fromzerotofullstack.com/

hobabaObama
wow... thanks for sharing.... is it all free... sorry could not find pricing info...
mejutoco
So far it is all completely free. You can create an account to bookmark courses, etc
lmiller1990
Not truly advanced compared to some of the content posted here but I try to post videos about Vue.js and topics no-one else really talks about (mainly around testing): https://www.youtube.com/c/LachlanMiller/videos
mstipetic
This is great, thanks for the effort! I don't understand why the youtube algorithm never finds something like this, it's always the beginner stuff that surfaces to the top
Aditya_Garg
Beginner stuff has 2 main advantages

1. More demand 2. Easier to make

petepete
Ok so totally not coding but I find Wintergatan's approach to engineering has certain parallels.

Plenty of testing, building for reliability and whittling down to the simplest, most-elegant solution possible.

https://youtu.be/U4B0i0VzXuA

yewenjie
What are the best places for finding high-quality learning material for arbitrary programming topics anyway? Like how does one quickly cut through the beginner stuff and get to the high-quality content?
pksebben
the awesome lists are a good place to find this stuff, frequently. just Google "awesome x site:GitHub.com" where x= {language, protocol, framework, design goal} and see what pops up.