Who are your most treasured live coders?

Jon Gjengset is great for educational Rust content.

“Tsoding Daily/Tsoding” on YouTube/Twitch is entertaining and covers a very wide range of topics. I don’t think he’s “classically trained” per se, but he’s knowledgeable and great at solving interesting problems.

I haven’t checked it out yet, but I think Ryan Carniato (the creator of SolidJS) streams live coding on YouTube too.

Andreas Kling of Serenity OS -- https://www.youtube.com/c/AndreasKling

Andrew Kelley of Zig -- https://www.twitch.tv/andrewrok

Really enjoy watching both of them work, and they're both so... calm, cool, and collected in their focus on the technology they're working on as opposed to 'content creation.'

Big George Hotz enjoyer but lately I’ve been trying to catch every stream from this guy “tokyospliff” - https://youtube.com/@tokyospliff

He does graphics programming, writing his own game engine from in C++ using OpenGL. The vibe in his streams is really something else, very interesting guy.

Also enjoy hotz due to ranting.

(Actually I'd consume more of that kind of content ie unpolished, quick videos. To me, the signal-to-noise is higher on videos like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovNZU-gzr6A than videos like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81fAtiORLAg, which seem to take 99% of youtube)

There's a fairly substantial Demoscene live coding community with shader coding and non-competitive jams (with an archive here: https://livecode.demozoo.org/)

You can take a look at the final of the Shader Showdown at Revision last year here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJ7KAD0NyGw

There's a TIC-80 'bytejam' every Monday Night (8 or 9pm UK time depending on the week) on https://www.twitch.tv/fieldfxdemo

And you can catch some previous VODs here: https://scenesat.com/videoarchive

George Hotz is always so interesting to watch, although I watch the youtube video after more than live

Dave Plummer but I’m way beyond the median age for HN. Would appreciate similar recommendations. Though I respect them, people like ThePrimeagen and Theo-t3.gg are too high energy for my tastes.

https://youtube.com/@DavesGarage?feature=shared

Jonathan Blow, currently coding a new programming language, and, in parallel to the language development, a commercial-quality AA game in this language as a proof of concept.

ThePrimeagen.

Sometimes I lost my spark with programming. Watching him reminds me to enjoy programming more.

Tenderlove (Aaron Patterson) from the Ruby and Rails core team does live streaming every now and then, with some good guests from the Ruby community.

https://www.youtube.com/@TenderlovesCoolStuff

Some examples:

Writing a test framework: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmi-SWeH4MA Hacking on the Prism compiler: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6loKD2LXxbc

Pieter Levels. Dutch guy that shows how he codes his multiple ventures, with good business sense

It tried doing some coding videos a while back mostly to make up for not having colleagues. Live coding is stupidly hard. I admire anyone who pulls it off.

I remember the Minecraft guy streaming a decade or more ago - it was super popular. I feel he's totally gone from online for a decade too...

Al Sweigart (Automate the boring stuff, Recursive book of recursion…) live codes on YT (https://youtube.com/@AutomateTheBoringStuff)

Wow, I had no idea it was a thing !

Thank you very much - I will definitely watch some of those.

Tsoding has nice YouTube videos on original topics: customizing TempleOs, writing a snake game in the bootloader, writing FE code in C. It's virtual insanity at its finest.

Harkirat singh is too good. He made and deployed Leetcode and Google Meet/Omegle end-to-end.

Terry Davis

George Hotz

hotz

Carmack