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"javidx9" is probably exactly what you're looking for. His "Forbidden C++" is a pretty good video. A vague awhile ago he had a pretty cool video explaining how you optimize Mandelbrot rendering that was the most succinct example I've ever seen of optimization.

"moshix" is more of a mainframe sysprog but maybe 20% of the content is 60s era COBOL and similar. A dirty secret of worship of the young in software development is every big problem is an old problem, and there's lots to learn from the ancients and how they handled the EXACT same problems in a slightly different format.

"code maven" not entirely sure this meets the critera, not sure that it doesn't. "skeleton go program" sure, "how to use linkedin to find a job" I donno if that counts?

"Ralph S Bacon" is a bit more embedded/Arduino, but if you like C development and blinking LEDs and what I'm told is british humour...

"Ben Eater" is like Ralphie but more retro (you'll see more 6502 assembly on Ben's channel and more arduino on Ralphies channel)

"The 8-Bit Guy" is like Ben Eater but more systems oriented than writing assembly. The way he hints at stuff I bet he's memorized the 6502 instruction set like anyone else, he just focuses hard on higher level systems issues.

"The Signal Path" is a bit more programming with solder aka analog electronics but he does bravely delve into the digital world on occasion.

Naomi Wu's channel, well, maybe she writes code 5% of the time ... but the IDE cursor is up here guys. I'm not saying it doesn't qualify or that it does qualify. Its, um, unique, that's for sure. Borderline NSFW, depending where you work...

Just because software is eating the world, some cool stuff is tangential but not focused on SE.

"Huygens Optics" is primarily about photons but as software eats the world his CNC controlled lens grinders and python scripts to simulate optical systems becomes tangentially SE.

"Applied Science" is like Huygens-bro where its not officially software development but with software eating the world I get the feeling that dude is pretty handy with an IDE although he doesn't brag about it.

"Sam Zeloof" is the same deal as above, people trying to make home semiconductors spend most of their time on the tools rather than actually making chips, and as above software eats the world so everything seems to revolve around writing a Python script to automate your heterodyne interfereometer and similar challenges.



"The Cherno" is a game developer (used to work at EA) who builds a game engine and vlogs about it, with the source on github. He also has videos on C++ and other subjects (recently a reaction on the PS5 and on the UE5 demo; Youtube recommended it to me for that)


wow, thanks




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