Links

Mo Bitar

· AI, Privacy, Commentary

Standard Notes founder's channel: sharp, skeptical takes on the AI industry.

The Circuit Archive

· Electronics, ESP32, Tutorials

Practical electronics and microcontroller tutorials. Moved to a new channel.

Prompt Engineering

· AI, LLM, Machine-Learning

An AI/ML PhD's no-hype breakdowns of new models, architectures, and techniques.

Leslie Fish

· Music, Filk, Science-Fiction

The godmother of filk — SF fandom's own folk music, performed and archived.

Life Is A Story

· Film, Analysis, Storytelling

Film-analysis essays on the craft of storytelling. Sporadic uploads.

Lithophane Maker

· 3D-Printing, Lithophanes

Lithophanes and chromaphanes, paired with the LithophaneMaker software. Dormant.

Living Anachronism

· Making, Medieval, Cosplay

Experimental archaeology: what medieval/fantasy life would actually be like, built for real.

Maker Faire

· Making, Maker-Movement

The official Maker Faire channel: showcases from the Greatest Show (and Tell) on Earth.

The McCarthy Show

· Comedy, Archive

Small dormant personal channel — likely not the intended McCarthy channel.

Microsoft Developer

· Microsoft, Development, AI

Microsoft's official developer channel: product news, tutorials, and agent tooling.

07JP27

· DIY, Flight-Sims, Travel

DIY home flight-sim cockpits and travel footage from Japan. On hiatus.

Microsoft DevRadio

· Microsoft, Development, Podcast

Microsoft's developer show with community and product insiders. Dormant.

2 Much ColinFurze

· Engineering, Projects, Comedy

Colin Furze's second channel: secret garage builds and behind-the-scenes.

Mike Stewart

· Spaceflight, Retro-Computing, Apollo

Restoring and preserving historic spaceflight hardware — Apollo Guidance Computers and beyond.

3Blue1Brown

· Math, Education, Visualization

Visual math animations from Grant Sanderson.

MIT OpenCourseWare

· Education, MIT, Courses

Free open course material from thousands of MIT courses, from intro to graduate level.

Abroad in Japan

· Travel, Japan, Vlog

Chris Broad's travel videos from across Japan.

Modern Software Engineering

· Software-Engineering, DevOps, Career

Dave Farley and crew on software craft — now wrestling with agentic development seriously.

Absolute History

· History, Documentaries

Weekly history documentaries from the History Hit team.

MW Laser

· Laser-Cutting, Woodworking

CO2 laser maintenance and setup from an Australian distributor. Dormant.

Adam Marczak - Azure for Everyone

· Azure, Cloud, Certifications

Hands-on Microsoft Azure tutorials and the AZ-900 certification series.

My Little Thought Tree

· Film, Psychology, Analysis

A children's therapist analyzing the psychology of movies, TV, and characters.

AI Engineer

· AI, LLM, Conferences

Recorded AI Engineer conference talks — agents, LLMs, production AI.

Nerdforge

· Making, Cosplay, Woodworking

A couple building enormous fantasy props and rooms — armor, stained glass, Victorian studies.

Alberta Tech

· AI, Comedy, Tech-Culture

Tech comedy and AI hot takes.

No place like localhost

· Local-AI, LLM, Self-Hosted

Setting up LLMs entirely on local hardware — new-model first looks and real constraints.

Applied Science

· Electronics, Science, Engineering

Ben Krasnow's home-shop high-tech builds: electron microscopes, aerogel, and more.

Nostalgia Nerd

· Retro-Computing, Tech-History

80s and 90s computers, games, and tech oddities with dry British humour.

atkelar

· Electronics, Restoration, Retro

Electronics repair and restoration with a puppet sidekick — ASMR-adjacent tinkering.

Page121 Tabletop Roleplaying Games

· Tabletop-RPG, Retro

Old-school RPGs from a 40-year player and collector — Greyhawk, AD&D, Traveller.

Big Finish

· Audio-Drama, Sci-Fi, Doctor-Who

Full-cast audio dramas: Doctor Who, Blake's 7, Dark Shadows, and more.

People Make Games

· Game-Dev, Journalism

Investigative games journalism: the industry and the people behind the games.

bigstackD Casting

· Metal-Casting, ASMR, Making

ASMR metal melting and casting from Perth, Australia. No talking, no music.

Periscope Film

· Film-Archive, Preservation, History

Rescued and digitized vintage films — industrial, military, and educational — posted free.

Bijan Bowen

· AI, LLM, Reviews

Fast-turnaround AI model reviews — a canary for what's about to blow up.

Pivot to AI

· AI, Skepticism, News

A channel with one job: deflating the AI bubble with daily news receipts.

Carl Bugeja

· Electronics, Robotics, Engineering

Detailed electronics and robotics engineering builds. On hiatus.

Primitive Skills

· Primitive-Skills, Homesteading

Rural self-sufficiency: harvesting, smoking meat, bamboo work, and pond life.

CfA Colloquium

· Astrophysics, Science, Lectures

Weekly astrophysics research colloquium talks from the Harvard-Smithsonian CfA.

Protorikis

· Local-AI, LLM, Development

Practical local AI: hands-on model tests, self-hosting, and creative dev tools.

Chef Jean-Pierre

· Cooking, French-Cuisine

Practical French cooking from a James Beard-nominated chef.

Punished Props Academy

· Prop-Making, Cosplay, Tutorials

Bill & Brittany Doran's high-end prop and costume tutorials — learn the craft.

Filament Friday

· 3D-Printing, Making, CNC

3D printing tips and maker projects, lately drifting into vibe coding.

PyTorch

· Machine-Learning, PyTorch, Open-Source

The PyTorch Foundation channel: framework releases, vLLM, Ray, and inference engineering.

L3D Accessories

· Laser-Engraving, Making, Reviews

Laser engraving tutorials, reviews, and jigs from a UK design engineer.

The Qualcomm Institute

· Research, UCSD, Technology

UC San Diego's research institute: talks on tech, science, art, and health.

colinfurze

· Engineering, Projects, Comedy

Crazy inventions and world records from Colin Furze.

Rachel Maksy

· Cosplay, Crafting

Cosplay and cozy crafting from a self-described maker, cosplayer, and floor troll.

Computer Creationz

· Laser-Engraving, LightBurn, Tutorials

LightBurn and laser engraving tutorials.

Todd Arnold (Real Space Junk)

· Spaceflight, Electronics, Retro

Sorting a truckload of JPL NASA surplus — early space ICs, teardowns, and 'what is this?'

cortical.io

· NLP, AI, Semantics

Cortical.io's semantic NLU and document-AI talks. On hiatus.

RedGreenTV

· Comedy, Archive

The official Red Green Show channel — 300+ episodes of the Possum Lodge.

CruisingTheCut

· Canals, Narrowboats, Britain

Life on a narrowboat on Britain's historic canals.

RETRO Hardware

· Retro-Computing, Hardware

A retro PC collector's builds, unboxings, and repairs — ISA through PCIe. Slowing down.

CuriousMarc

· Retro, Electronics, Restoration

Vintage HP and Apollo hardware restorations.

Rick Has ADHD

· ADHD, Health, Education

Practical adult-ADHD guidance distilled from interviews with 70 top experts.

RM Military History

· History, Military

First-person military-history vignettes from WW1 to Vietnam. Dormant.

Robert Feranec

· Electronics, PCB-Design, Hardware

PCB layout and hardware design tutorials — from op-amp pitfalls to USB-C supplies.

Robert Tolone

· Casting, Molding, Workshop

A 40-year mold maker on silicone molds and resin casting. Dormant.

Sam Zeloof

· Semiconductors, Making, Electronics

The garage semiconductor pioneer — homemade silicon chips from photolithography onward. Dormant.

San Diego Web Cam

· Live-Cams, Ships, San-Diego

Live 4K cams on San Diego Bay with NOAA/marine radio audio — Navy and cruise ship watching.

SciFi Stories

· Science-Fiction, Audiobooks

HFY and sci-fi short stories narrated in graphic-novel style, licensed from authors.

Shut Up & Sit Down

· Board-Games, Reviews

World-class board game reviews and playthroughs with a welcoming community.

Skill Tree

· Making, Leathercraft, Forging

Learning random hands-on skills on camera — leather, forging, woodworking, and life hacks.

Slant 3D

· 3D-Printing, Manufacturing

A mass-production 3D printing shop on scaling additive manufacturing for real.

Solo Travel Japan

· Japan, Travel

Silent POV travel through Japan — ferries, Shinkansen classes, and unusual stays.

Sorted Food

· Cooking, Food

Three mates testing recipes and kitchen gadgets until they become good home cooks.

Spec Again

· Careers, AI, Development

Internet of Bugs' spin-off on software careers in the AI era. Dormant.

Splitsie

· Gaming, Space-Engineers

Space Engineers engineering at its most patient — playing, teaching, and failing at survival games.

Steve1989MREInfo

· Military, History, Food

Opening and reviewing vintage military rations — a virtual museum of shelf-stable history.

Talks at Google

· Interviews, Books, Talks

Authors and makers in conversation across 30+ Google offices, released publicly.

Tech Ingredients

· Engineering, Science, DIY

Deep engineering experiments: blast chillers, centrifuges, radar-absorbing panels, phase-change goop.

The Templin Institute

· Worldbuilding, Science-Fiction, Lore

Alternate-world lore deep dives: Ace Combat, Warhammer 40K, Royal Space Force.

The 8-Bit Guy

· Retro-Computing, Tech-History

Retro tech from the 80s-2000s, educational and occasionally gloriously weird.

The Bibites: Digital Life

· Simulation, Evolution, AI

An ongoing artificial-life project: genetics, evolution, and natural selection in simulation.

The RF Noob

· Radio, SDR, Electronics

Learning RF from scratch — SDRs, amplifiers, and test gear. Long dormant but thorough.

Thinking and Tinkering

· Making, Engineering, Legacy

Robert Murray-Smith's empowerment-through-making archive. A memorial channel since 2025.

Tonbi's AI Garage

· AI, Agents, Hermes

Weekly hands-on AI agent workflows — with a run of Hermes Agent content.

Townsends

· History, Cooking, Living-History

18th-century living history: open-hearth cooking, clothing, and period craft.

Tristan's Electronic Garage

· Electronics, Restoration, Arcade

Arcade, console, and audio repairs, unpolished and honest — everything's for sale.

Usagi Electric

· Vacuum-Tubes, Retro-Computing, Electronics

Vacuum-tube computing circuits built at safe low voltages, plus a growing vintage museum.

Usagi Workshop

· Electronics, Retro-Computing, Live-Streams

Usagi's Friday-night live repair stream — currently reviving a TI-980 mainframe.

Dave's Garage

· DIY, Electronics, Windows

Windows history, Arduino/ESP32 tutorials, and shop projects from a Microsoft engineer.

VanOaksProps

· Prop-Making, Halloween, Fabrication

Halloween props and Star Wars replicas with the how-to shown, from $8 props up.

DAVID BOBER (ROYAL NAVY FILMS)

· History, Film-Archive, Navy

Public-domain Royal Navy recruiting and instructional films. Dormant archive.

VCF Southwest

· Retro-Computing, Vintage-Computing

The Vintage Computer Festival Southwest: talks from Activision legends to the first GPU.

Derina Harvey Band

· Music, Celtic-Rock

Canadian Celtic rock band gone viral via TikTok. Channel dormant.

VogMan

· 3D-Printing, Casting, DIY

Honest 3D printer reviews, model showcases, and 3D-print-to-metal-casting crossovers.

DIY Solar Power with Will Prowse

· Solar, DIY, Off-Grid

Teaches off-grid solar builds from scratch; also exposes solar and battery scams.

Welch Labs

· AI, Machine-Learning, Explainers

Deep, visual AI explainers — the illustrated guide to AI and its landmark papers.

Donato Capitella

· Local-AI, AMD, Strix-Halo

Software engineer and ethical hacker; lately deep on local LLMs on AMD Strix Halo.

What's For Tea?

· Cooking, Scotland, Family

Family-style Scottish dinners from a wee kitchen — recipes, shops, and weekly meals.

Drachinifel

· History, Naval

Encyclopedic naval history: ship-by-ship guides plus the weekly Drydock podcast.

ZacSpeaksGiant

· D&D, Comedy, Actual-Play

Silly D&D stories and actual-play with four real bards. Dormant.

Drift Intel

· AI, Security, Dev-Ops

Tracks quiet vendor changes — pricing, ToS, disclosures — that threaten your stack.

DrMattRegan

· Computing, Retro, Education

Hands-on how-computers-work tutorials built around the 6502 and a 1-bit CPU.

DUST

· Sci-Fi, Short-Films

Curated, licensed independent science-fiction short films.

Espressif Systems

· Electronics, ESP32, IoT

The ESP32 maker's channel: new SoCs, DevCon talks, and dev-tooling.

Europe Boat Trading

· Canals, Boats

Walkthrough videos of European canal barges and motor cruisers for sale. Dormant.

Farming While Beige

· Farming, Agriculture

First-generation Black farming: practical agriculture plus culture commentary.

Feral Historian

· History, Science-Fiction

Cultural memory through the stories we tell — history and science fiction together.

Flipsie

· Gaming, Space-Sims

Splitsie's second channel: X4: Foundations first-times and co-op with Capac.

FoundationINTERVIEWS

· Television, Interviews, History

The Television Academy's oral history of television — in-depth creator interviews.

Fran Blanche

· Electronics, Engineering, DIY

Electronics builds, guitar pedals, engineering, and daily shop life from FranLab.

GosuCoder

· AI, Development

AI coding agents and benchmarking from a 20-year engineer. On hiatus.

GOTO Conferences

· Development, Conferences

Recorded software conference talks from GOTO, released daily.

GreatScott!

· Electronics, Tutorials

Electronics tutorials, projects, and how-tos from Berlin. 2.17M subscribers.

HardThrasher

· History, WWII

WW2 history with whimsy and swear words, delivered by a fictional British lord.

HCS Voice Packs

· Voice-Control, Gaming, Star-Citizen

Voice-control AI agents for space sims, voiced by Star Trek and Babylon 5 actors.

Healthy Developer

· Careers, Development

Developer career coaching: transitions, identity, and what comes next. On hiatus.

HeliMech

· Flight-Sims, DIY

Building 3D-printed airliner sim cockpits (737DIYSIM) with Mobiflight panels.

History Bites (Official)

· History, Comedy

Rick Green's comedic history series, heavy on Canadian history. Channel dormant.

IMSAI Guy

· Electronics, Restoration, Retro

Daily garage electronics repairs, from an IMSAI 8080 onward. Jargon-free.

InCamera

· Filmmaking, Practical-FX

Traditional in-camera SFX techniques, combined with modern tech, for indie filmmakers.

IndyDevDan

· AI, Development, Agents

Agentic engineering dev logs: building with coding agents, hands-on.

Internet of Bugs

· AI, Software-QA, Development

A 35-year software veteran's skeptical takes on AI-generated code and QA.

Isaac Arthur

· Futurism, Space

Science-based futurism: megastructures, terraforming, and space colonization.

Japan Eat

· Japan, Food

Japanese food and travel videos. Channel dormant.

John Savill's Technical Training

· Azure, Cloud, Training

Azure, AWS, DevOps, and AI training — the weekly Azure update is the staple.

Kai Lentit

· Comedy, Development

Programming comedy skits — 'Programmers Are Also Human.'

Kaizen 3D Prints

· 3D-Printing, Making

3D-printed textiles and maker crossovers — knitting machines, laser cutters, UV printing.

Keith Richie

· Music, Ambient

Ambient/electronic musician (Maestoso) — new tracks monthly, free downloads.

Kirsten Dirksen

· Simple-Living, DIY, Homes

Documentary shorts on simple living and unconventional homes worldwide.

Kruggsmash

· Gaming, Dwarf-Fortress

Dwarf Fortress playthroughs and mod reviews — the channel's signature game.

Bluesky

· Social, News

Microblogging social network on the AT protocol; feeds worth curating.

Mastodon

· Social

Federated microblogging; I need to figure out how to actually use it.

OpenCode Documentation

· AI, Development, Documentation

Docs for OpenCode, an open-source terminal AI coding agent.

Sebastian Raschka

· AI, LLMs, Education

LLM research engineer; from-scratch LLM book, articles, and architecture notes.

CodeFlow — Architecture Intelligence

· Development, Visualization, AI

Turns any GitHub repo into an interactive architecture map.

ARC ARC — Arcade Archive

· Retro, Electronics, Reference

Huge archive of arcade manuals, schematics, parts docs, and MAME material.

Babylon 5 Station 3D Models

· 3D-Printing, SciFi

Premium Babylon 5 station STLs on Gambody.

txtai Semantic Search Examples

· AI, Search, Python

Notebook gallery for building semantic/vector search with txtai.

Skills — The Agent Skills Directory

· AI, Agents

Cross-tool directory of installable agent skills.

Computer, Enhance! — Table of Contents

· Programming, Performance, Education

Casey Muratori's full performance-aware programming course index.

Joy Caption Alpha Two

· AI, Images, Local-AI

Open, unrestricted image-captioning VLM with an HF demo Space.

Infinite Livestream

· AI, Video, Experiment

Chat-driven never-ending AI video broadcast over RTMP.

The Teaser Period: Why the AI Boom Is Hitting a Reset Wall

· AI, Finance, Analysis

AI compute commitments as 2/28 ARM resets: when the obligations come due.

Project Hyperion

· Space, Design

Generation-ship design competition for a 250-year interstellar voyage.

Yan Desbiens

· AI, Local-AI, Blog

One-GPU local-first AI lab: cognitive architectures, agent runtimes, AEON.

Gamentic

· AI, Games, Self-Hosted

Self-hosted AI dungeon RPG: one local LLM, SQLite truth, FastAPI brain.

Genspark Blog

· AI, Agents

Updates from Genspark, a hosted AI-agent workspace platform.

Vintage Computer Museum

· Retro, Computing, Museum

Online archive of 1960s–1990s computing hardware, restored and documented.

Strix Halo × Qwen3.8 (pwilkin)

· Local-AI, AMD, Strix-Halo

Reproducible custom-ROCm llama.cpp stack for Qwen3.8-27B on Strix Halo.

Electronic Parts Outlet — Stuff

· Electronics, Parts, Shopping

Houston surplus parts dealer; photo page of the deep inventory.

Pirate Face

· AI, Torrents, Open-Source

Open models mirrored from Hugging Face as unstoppable torrents.

AMD AI Developer Program

· AMD, AI, Developer-Program

Free AMD program: cloud credits, ROCm certification, training, events.

news.thedream.ca

· News, Feeds

Daily 'top 10 topics the world is reading' page; author and status unknown.

Cardboard Box Generator

· Making, Laser-Cutting, Tools

Any-size box templates as SVG/DXF with score lines and sheet splitting.

Attie

· AI, Research

AI research assistant for the open social web; closed beta, hosted.

Hermes WebUI Master Guide

· Hermes, Documentation

Community master guide/cheatsheet for the Hermes WebUI.

RAGFlow

· AI, RAG, Self-Hosted

Open-source RAG engine with ETL, hybrid search, and agent workflows.

Wube Software Models on Printables

· 3D-Printing, Games

Official Wube Software Factorio model collection on Printables.

Arctic Shift Reddit API

· Reddit, Data, API

Free Pushshift-successor Reddit archive API; rate-limited but powerful.

NYX-99 City Simulator

· Simulation, Games, Open-Source

Terminal-based autonomous 1999 city sim with thousands of agents.

Kanzie — Christian Nilsson

· Blog, Cloud, Agents

Capgemini cloud strategist's blog; built the animated Hermes 'village' display.

Livewall

· Agents, Dashboard, MCP

Live status board an agent writes to itself via MCP/HTTP; SSE-rendered.

Train Your Own Decision Model with Unsloth

· AI, Training, Local-AI

Fine-tune Qwen/Gemma into decision classifiers with calibrated probabilities.

Cadet-Agent

· Game-Dev, Agents, Development

Cross-IDE agent framework enforcing a gated game-dev SDLC.

SiMa.ai Palette

· AI, Edge-Devices, Hardware

'Physical AI' dev environment for SiMa's Modalix edge SoC.

Aquarium

· AI, Experiment, Crypto

Four AIs with real money playing 20 Questions against each other.

Lenny's Product Pass

· Deals, Tools

Paid pass aggregating discounts on Lenny's recommended tools.

Abacus ChatLLM

· AI, Hosted

All-models hosted chat/agent platform at $10/month; enterprise features.

Please, Don't Code

· Electronics, AI, ESP32

Describe a device in chat; AI draws wiring and generates flashable firmware.

Hermes Hidden Features (Wingtips)

· Hermes, Documentation

Community-collected lesser-known Hermes tricks: handoff, steer, REST API.

Hachyderm

· Social, Fediverse

Large Mastodon server aimed at tech folks; explore page.

ModelScope

· AI, Models, Community

Alibaba's open-source model hub — the Hugging Face equivalent from China.

The Briefings of the Mad Colonel

· History, Education

Colonel Boyd was highly influential in many circles.

Internet in a Box

· Software, Data, Offline

Offline data storage

Tim Hunkin's YouTube Channel

· Education, Making

Educational