What are some of your favorite YouTube channels?

My favourite “maker” channels are:

- Stuff made here, building incredible inventions: https://m.youtube.com/c/stuffmadehere

- BPS Space, advanced model rocketry: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCILl8ozWuxnFYXIe2svjHhg

Both cover engineering, machining, 3d printing, software, algorithms - love them!

Thorough Analysis of Footwear Materials: https://www.youtube.com/c/RoseAnvil

Python: https://www.youtube.com/c/mCodingWithJamesMurphy

General Programming: https://www.youtube.com/c/Fireship

Learning Brand New Skills: https://www.youtube.com/c/MikeShake

Economics: https://www.youtube.com/c/ThePlainBagel

History: https://www.youtube.com/c/TenMinuteHistory

Investing (UK Focus): https://www.youtube.com/c/Pensioncraft

Soccer: https://www.youtube.com/c/BecomeElite

London Transport History: https://www.youtube.com/c/JagoHazzard

In no particular order:

The Royal Institution (https://youtube.com/c/TheRoyalInstitution)

Team Coco (https://youtube.com/c/TeamCoco)

World Science Festival (https://youtube.com/c/WorldScienceFestival)

Sabine Hossenfelder (https://youtube.com/c/SabineHossenfelder)

3Blue1Brown (https://youtube.com/c/3blue1brown)

PBS Space Time (https://youtube.com/c/pbsspacetime)

Tuesdays with Stories! (https://youtube.com/c/TuesdayswithStories)

Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (https://youtube.com/user/PIOutreach)

Science & Cocktails (https://youtube.com/c/ScienceCocktails)

- Brick Experiment Channel - https://www.youtube.com/c/BrickExperimentChannel

- Andreas Kling (serenityOS) - https://www.youtube.com/c/AndreasKling

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

- The 8-Bit Guy - https://www.youtube.com/c/The8BitGuy

Matthias Wandel's channel, mainly on carpentry but really, on anything he posts, is very good. He's so good at what he does that I'd add him to that old cliché - "if you look up Engineer in the dictionary, his picture comes up". From his series on woodworking machine construction to just about anything else, his analytic mind has visualized the solution and has avoided the various pitfalls related to it.

https://www.youtube.com/c/Matthiaswandel

Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan https://m.youtube.com/channel/UC-AQKm7HUNMmxjdS371MSwg

I don't watch a lot of YouTube, but here's my list:

ThePrimeagen - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8ENHE5xdFSwx71u3fDH5Xw (also check out his livestreams, very entertaining)

Tsoding - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrqM0Ym_NbK1fqeQG2VIohg

Jon Gjengset - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_iD0xppBwwsrM9DegC5cQQ

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

Mental Outlaw - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7YOGHUfC1Tb6E4pudI9STA

Luke Smith - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2eYFnH61tmytImy1mTYvhA

mCoding - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaiL2GDNpLYH6Wokkk1VNcg

Science / Electronics

  - AlphaPhoenix: https://youtube.com/c/AlphaPhoenixChannel
  - Andreas Spiess: https://youtube.com/c/AndreasSpiess
  - Marco Reps: https://youtube.com/c/MarcoReps

Fixing and Building Things

  - Mike Patey: https://youtube.com/c/MikePatey
  - Deboss Garage: https://youtube.com/c/DEBOSSGARAGE
  - Twoodfrd: https://youtube.com/user/twoodfrd
  - Foureyes Furniture: https://youtube.com/c/ChrisSalomone1
  - Jennies Garage: https://youtube.com/user/jenniesgarage

Automotive (and related)

  - SavageGeese: https://youtube.com/c/savagegeese
  - FortNine: https://youtube.com/c/FortNine

3D Printing

  - CNCKitchen: https://youtube.com/c/CNCKitchen
  - Thomas Sanladerer: https://youtube.com/user/ThomasSanladerer

Food

  - Adam Ragusea: https://youtube.com/user/aragusea
  - Joshua Weissman: https://youtube.com/c/JoshuaWeissman

Outdoors / Homestead

  - Learn Your Land: https://youtube.com/c/LearnYourLand

It hasn’t created any content in over six years, but I still really, really recommend: https://youtube.com/user/SpokenVerse

It’s the most beautiful recitations of poetry you will ever hear, especially if your someone who usually doesn’t like poetry.

One cool part is the creator is completely anonymous. Modern YouTube is so big on self promotion - this guy is the exact opposite.

He just lets the poems speak for themselves.

Great Scott [Electronics] https://www.youtube.com/c/greatscottlab

The Post Apocalyptic Inventor [Electronics/Tools/Crafts] https://www.youtube.com/c/ThePostApocalypticInventor

Cody's Lab [weird hobby science related] https://www.youtube.com/user/theCodyReeder

Jan Beta [Electronics/RetroComputers] https://www.youtube.com/c/JanBeta

Tom Scott [Intersting stuff] https://www.youtube.com/c/TomScottGo

Lazy Game Reviews [Gaming/RetroComputers] https://www.youtube.com/c/Lazygamereviews

Soft White Underbelly [Society] https://www.youtube.com/c/SoftWhiteUnderbelly

Not mentioned so far - Adrian’s Digital Basement. He rips apart and fixes old tech and I love watching him geek out over some old transistor

https://youtube.com/c/adriansdigitalbasement

Technology: - Cathode Ray Dude (https://www.youtube.com/c/CathodeRayDude)

- Technology Connections (https://www.youtube.com/c/TechnologyConnections)

Urban Planning: - Not Just Bikes (https://www.youtube.com/c/NotJustBikes)

Cars / Engineering: - SuperfastMatt (https://www.youtube.com/c/SuperfastMatt)

Scott Manley. Started with Kerbal Space Program videos, now one of the leading freelance Space YouTube channels: https://www.youtube.com/c/szyzyg

Tim Dodd, the Everyday Astronaut. Bought a Russian space suit, started wearing it and making videos. Has leveled up to interviewing Elon Musk, and other notable Space related people such as the former NASA administrator: https://www.youtube.com/c/EverydayAstronaut

Lindsay Ellis. Got her start in an ensemble channel, in the last few years has produced long form video essays mainly about film. Nothing in recent months sadly: https://www.youtube.com/c/LindsayEllisVids

Primitive Technology (happy he started uploading again): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAL3JXZSzSm8AlZyD3nQdBA

Tom Scott for a lot cool facts and things I knew nothing about: https://www.youtube.com/c/TomScottGo

Xander Budnick because I love his travels and amazing filming & editing style: https://www.youtube.com/c/XanderBudnick

I've seen a lot of channels I like myself, but not these ones yet: AgingWheels: (cars/engineering) https://m.youtube.com/user/agingwheels

ModernVintageGamer: (Technology/games) https://m.youtube.com/c/ModernVintageGamer

RegularCarReviews: (Automotive history, comedy, and varied vehicles) https://m.youtube.com/c/RegularCars

English channels:

https://www.youtube.com/c/ItchyBoots

https://www.youtube.com/c/TomScottGo

https://www.youtube.com/c/hihokids (the artist section, and food section is good)

https://www.youtube.com/c/britishpathe

https://www.youtube.com/c/JayForeman (typical British :))

Documentaries from Vice, Vox, Journey Man Pictures, Al Jazeera and DW TV are very good and available on YouTube.

Non-English channels:

https://www.youtube.com/c/Raanvata07 (the guy treks various unmaintained ancient "forts" in the Indian state of Maharashtra; photography is good as the guy himself is a photographer)

https://www.youtube.com/c/TribalPeopleTryOfficial (some tribal people, may be from Pakistan, try western food for the first time)

I will try to mention channels not present already

Fall of Civilizations - for engrosaing long form documentaries

Productivity Game - For excellent summaries of productivity books

ABC Science

Animalogic

How it should have ended

Hungarian folk tales - for the nostalgic kid in me

Kevin Powell - for CSS

Microconf - for entrepreneurs

Minute Earth

Mind your decisions- for small math puzzles

New scientist

Cogito

History of the earth

North 02

Moth light media

Stefan Milo

Chess: Agadmator (https://www.youtube.com/c/AGADMATOR)

- Project Brupeg: https://youtube.com/c/ProjectBrupeg

- Travels With Geordie: https://youtube.com/c/TravelsWithGeordie

- Death Culture Studio: https://youtube.com/c/DeathCulture

- Sampson Boat Co: https://youtube.com/c/SampsonBoatCo

- Fascinating Horror: https://youtube.com/c/FascinatingHorror

- The Charismatic Voice: https://youtube.com/c/TheCharismaticVoice

- Alex Wild: https://youtube.com/channel/UCnmm7WWal4bSl6o8hzPfYmQ

Others have posted some of these, but amen - lots of fun and informative!

Smarter Every Day (https://www.youtube.com/user/destinws2) Veritasium (https://www.youtube.com/1veritasium) Tom Scott (https://www.youtube.com/c/TomScottGo) Bourbon Moth Woodworking (https://www.youtube.com/c/Bourbonmothdecor)

I love these home lab videos

Techno Tim - https://www.youtube.com/c/TechnoTimLive

Raid Owl - https://www.youtube.com/c/RaidOwl

Digital life Tech - https://www.youtube.com/c/TheDigitalLifeTech

Craft Computing - https://www.youtube.com/c/CraftComputing

IBRACORP - https://www.youtube.com/c/IBRACORP

Surprised no-one has mentioned Ben Eater: https://www.youtube.com/c/BenEater

He has a series on building your own computer. His "World's Worst Video Card" is also instructive. Ben's brain must be wired differently from the rest of us, as nearly all of us would have given up long before reaching the stages that he has.

ExplainingComputers also gives you a weekly fix on computing hardware. https://www.youtube.com/user/explainingcomputers His content is mostly around the latest SBCs (Single Board Computers).

For music, something about the corporate library music of my childhood lifts my spirits with its bombastic naffness. I've recently discovered fusion, which I see as the precursor to that. A guy called Terminal Passage collects old 70s vinyl and digitises them for Youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/c/TerminalPassage

I particularly recommend Neil Ardley's Kaleidoscope of Rainbows: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgdfA4YJWP0 (especially Rainbow Seven/Epilogue)

GameHut, where Jon Burton, a developer from Traveller’s Tales; goes into extreme technical depth as to how they managed to pull of some seriously ludicrous achievements on the SEGA Genesis/MegaDrive such as the FPS section in ‘Toy Story’, or the supposedly-impossible transparent polygons in Sonic R for the SEGA Saturn.

If you’ve got the mind for it, Burton’s channel is one of the most fascinating I’ve been blessed to see. It’s an amazing achievement of sharing highly obscure technical detail for no reason but passion.

https://youtube.com/channel/UCfVFSjHQ57zyxajhhRc7i0g

高木凜々子 (violin) https://youtube.com/channel/UCai8hzr9SPcdIcfGs1VUd0g

Alice Sara Ott (Piano) https://youtube.com/c/AliceSaraOtt

小九圍棋 (Go) https://youtube.com/channel/UCrHx-8y1-q5MLtCZWk0TuFg

Ashish Xiangyi Kumar (Piano) https://youtube.com/c/AshishXiangyiKumar

Tom Scott ( https://www.youtube.com/c/TomScottGo ) is one of my favorites which I have seen mentioned a lot, but I am surprised to see almost no mention of Stuff Made Here, or Smarter Everyday. Both are amazing channels.

https://www.youtube.com/c/StuffMadeHere

https://www.youtube.com/c/smartereveryday

Hands down the best post-pandemic discovery has been Martijn Doolaard: a Dutch gentleman that bought a pair of old houses in the Italian Alps, and with a lot of patience, DIY and elbow grease is turning them into an off-the-grid home.

No music, no sponsors, no ads, just nature, ingenuity, long shots, some conversation and (small spoilers) heartwarming human collaboration.

Warning: you will get an itch to leave the city behind, for a better life close to nature.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL32DhVYS_cmGlvtY5UzdVVMI3...

A mixmash:

https://www.youtube.com/c/svdelos - amazing sailing channel

https://www.youtube.com/c/SailingLaVagabonde - Another sailing couple from Australia

https://www.youtube.com/c/FinnegansGarage - Car guys - Mike Finnegan from Roadkill

https://www.youtube.com/c/StuccoPlastering - learn how to do stucco work!

https://www.youtube.com/c/MattRisinger - Fantastic Home construction and renovation tips

https://www.youtube.com/c/mightycarmods - Australian car guys

https://www.youtube.com/user/StarrTile - learn how to tile and renovate a bathroom

https://www.youtube.com/c/ViceGripGarage - Car guys - hilarious car restoration

https://www.youtube.com/c/Welddotcom - learn to weld

https://www.youtube.com/user/FStoppers - Photography learning

https://www.youtube.com/c/mitocw - Learn anything from MIT -Mass Institute of Technology

https://www.youtube.com/c/MortskeRepair - Car guys - Mortske!

Productivity (Tiago Forte): https://www.youtube.com/user/simulacrumsquared

Building science (Matt Resinger): https://www.youtube.com/user/MattRisinger

Rock climbing: https://www.youtube.com/user/magmidt88

Legal Eagle: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpa-Zb0ZcQjTCPP1Dx_1M8Q

Society & politics (Coleman Hughes): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUk0AvSMU5CJ0wUqJf9TX8g

Knife sharpening (Burrfection): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOluHMoKJ6CrS0kcybhaThg

Brain science (Humberman Lab): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2D2CMWXMOVWx7giW1n3LIg

Business & sales (Alex Hermozi): https://www.youtube.com/user/adhormozi

Adam Savage: https://www.youtube.com/c/tested

Product reviews: https://www.youtube.com/c/ProjectFarm

Bonus...

Self Protection: https://www.youtube.com/c/ActiveSelfProtection

This one requires a bit of a warning. Lots of CCTV footage of actual crimes and what people did right or wrong to protect themselves.

I really like Jimmy Akin for his podcast, "Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World". It covers various mysteries topics, from the cause of inflation to remote viewing and parapsychology. Jimmy does all of this in a non sensationalist way while retaining an interesting story-like format. As a Catholic, Jimmy gives both the reason and faith perspectives.

https://youtube.com/user/JimmyAkin

I keep a somewhat updated page on my personal site for this exact question.

https://johnzanussi.com/youtube

Footless Jo - https://www.youtube.com/c/FootlessJo First We Feast - https://www.youtube.com/c/FirstWeFeast https://www.youtube.com/c/SimplyMam%C3%A1Cooks

Similar (14 days back): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32220192

Coffeezilla is usually a good watch…

Practical Engineering, Primitive Technology, Mentour Pilot, LockPickingLawyer and easily the most entertaining channel on YouTube: RedLetterMedia.

As an aspiring game designer I always enjoy and sometimes learn from Game Maker's Toolkit: https://youtube.com/c/MarkBrownGMT

There are probably better more technical YouTubers in this space but I don't have the patience for long form video essays, GMTK is usually pretty concise.

My fav is https://www.youtube.com/c/veritasium - very good videos about science Another one is https://www.youtube.com/c/Wendoverproductions

https://www.youtube.com/c/Luetin09

I play it at night as a sleeping aid. For some reason it hasn't gotten old yet, 2 years of nightly play. Helps me wake up fresh so I can do my engineer/entrepreneur work :)

Also helps out cleaning my YouTube recommendations from TV like rubbish.

Don your safety squints, I’m surprised no one has mentioned Uncle Bumblefuck, AvE [0]. All-around tool teardowns, machining, enginerding and et cetera. Highly recommended.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChWv6Pn_zP0rI6lgGt3MyfA

I enjoy the speedrun videos, often cheating related, from Karl Jobst:

https://www.youtube.com/c/karljobst

He exposed some issues recently relating to game-cart grading, and has recurring videos about the faked Donkey Kong records from Billy Mitchell.

Perhaps not entrepreneurial, but still interesting.

https://youtube.com/c/dallasmed65 dallasmed65is probably one of the most creative and oldest minecraft player you can find on youtube he is severely underated but i love his channel and his 10 year old world.

not strictly a youtube channel, but I love Lex Fridman's podcast

Mathologer - https://www.youtube.com/c/Mathologer

Early Music Sources - https://www.youtube.com/c/EarlyMusicSourcescom

The Hated One & Techlore

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjr2bPAyPV7t35MvcgT3W8Q

https://www.youtube.com/c/Techlore

Ali Abdaal: https://www.youtube.com/c/aliabdaal He is an amazing nerd of science entrepreneur guy that shows you how to.... many great stuff, in a very simple way. I love it.

The All-In Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCESLZhusAkFfsNsApnjF_Cg/fea...

4 Friends go all in on everything topical

For marketing tips - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzfhlrk4IDOgZLC5ZHdi2AA

"This Old Tony" - machining, CNC, engineering, measuring, etc.:

https://www.youtube.com/c/ThisOldTony

Technology Connections! They are all great, but the ‘toaster’ is my current fave! https://youtu.be/1OfxlSG6q5Y

Partial to Anton’s channel for mostly science/space related content. https://youtube.com/c/whatdamath

SpaceChatter has 30+ subscribers (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClKb-FBZL0UVFU4BPt5DmFg)

:-)

Blue Lug Bike Shop https://m.youtube.com/c/bluelugbikeshop

I'll just put this right here:

https://youtube.com/user/sickanimation

Essential Craftsman

This is the video that turned me on to him

https://youtu.be/qP1AmDRhoas

For woodworking porn I like Pask Makes. He has a great series called "scrapwood challenge" where he makes stuff from fire wood.

Where did my comment go? Can you not delete my recommendations for channels? Thanks.

best macro commentary on financial markets, 3 times a week: https://www.youtube.com/c/DataDash

If i have to pick just one general channel, it would be Veritasium

Is there a single fucking channel in these links that isn't full of affiliates, sponsorships, "thanks" hearts with dollar signs in them, or donate links? This is the fucking internet. This isn't television 2.0.

Mark Furneaux - this guy has a playlist with a full, deep guide to pfsense among other interesting things. https://www.youtube.com/user/TheUbuntuGuy/videos

arronmunroe - nothing but no commentary, high quality, 60fps multiplayer videos of video games. Most are netplay of arcade games. https://www.youtube.com/user/arronmunroe/videos

NAVYMAN8903 - lots of good information on handguns and rifles. Doesn't beg or tell you to subscribe. https://www.youtube.com/user/navyman8903/videos

Forrest Haggerty Channel - this guy just recently got a donate link because dumb people in the comments were telling him to do it and he listened. Ugh. But he's a really good educator. Gives only the facts about events using Google Earth. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiEbRbR2F34dORnT0faWFXw/vid...

Pat Condell - speaks directly to the camera with one take, no editing, no begging for money, and straight to the point commentary on politics and atheism. https://www.youtube.com/c/patcondell/videos

ewhac - the developer of Escape from Monster Manor for the 3DO. Has a LOT of insight about the 3DO video game system not found on any other channel or anywhere on the net, really. Doesn't beg for money or donations. https://www.youtube.com/c/ewhac/videos

big blue frontend - developer working on native PC port of Final Fight. Also has deeply insightful videos about arcade emulation not found anywhere else online. I have yet to find any other human know more about the accuracy of arcade emulation than this guy. Doesn't beg for money or even monetize his videos. This is the INTERNET. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwPvdwZZ35dm6xozp-zpcpQ/vid...

-- DW Documentary - https://www.youtube.com/c/DWDocumentary

bald and bankrupt - https://www.youtube.com/c/baldandbankrupt

Donut Media - https://www.youtube.com/c/DonutMediaTV

Frontline PBS - https://www.youtube.com/c/frontline

Internet Today - https://www.youtube.com/c/InternetTodayTV

Stuff Made Here - https://www.youtube.com/c/StuffMadeHere

Hoovies Garage - https://www.youtube.com/c/HooviesGarage

74 Gear - https://www.youtube.com/c/74gear

Steve Wallis - https://www.youtube.com/c/thestevewallis

Hacksmith - https://www.youtube.com/c/theHacksmith

Plainly Difficult - https://www.youtube.com/c/PlainlyDifficult

The Backyard Scientist - https://www.youtube.com/c/TheBackyardScientist

Tom Scott - https://www.youtube.com/c/TomScottGo

Max Fosh - https://www.youtube.com/c/MaxFosh

New Economic Thinking - https://www.youtube.com/c/NewEconomicThinking

Dominic Tarr - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMSmy7qF24q4f_y6L86zNMA

Adam Ragusea - https://www.youtube.com/user/aragusea

Building Integrity - https://www.youtube.com/c/BuildingIntegrity

LPL - https://www.youtube.com/c/lockpickinglawyer

rctestflight - https://www.youtube.com/c/rctestflight

WELT Documentary - https://www.youtube.com/c/WELTDocumentary

Zach Gallardo - https://www.youtube.com/c/ZachGallardoFixed

shiey - https://www.youtube.com/c/shiey

Trek Trendy - https://www.youtube.com/c/Trektrendy

Mike Patey - https://www.youtube.com/c/MikePatey

WheelsBoy - https://www.youtube.com/c/Wheelsboy

Coffeezilla - https://www.youtube.com/c/Coffeezilla

Thomas Krüger – Mr. Pianoman - https://www.youtube.com/c/ThomasKruegerPianoman

Talks at Google - https://www.youtube.com/c/talksatgoogle

Julia Plays Groove - https://www.youtube.com/c/juliaplaysgroove19

GeoWizard - https://www.youtube.com/c/GeoWizard

ABC News In-depth - https://www.youtube.com/c/ABCNewsIndepth/videos

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