I watched a few of the DHH, Eric Normand and Be a Better Dev videos. DHH’s videos are very good, actually I was sucked into watching a couple, but he doesn’t have very many. Also, your link points to his old channel, and now all those videos are https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9wALaIpe0Py6E_oHCgTrD6FvFETwJLlx, although he only did one more in that series. The couple Eric Normand videos were pretty good, I could imagine that there are really good ones somewhere in the feed. For Be a Better Dev, the videos seemed pretty low quality, very focused on learning AWS-specific technologies. It gave me the impression that he was just following traffic for what to talk about, the exact opposite of DHH. It’s the equivalent of YouTube blogspam.
Thank you for your input here, it’s great to get some more data points!
For Eric Normand I think it can be a bit hit or miss. Some of them I find to be meh, but others I really love. Two that I’ve watched recently that I’ve loved were How is Haskell faster than C? and The Early History of Smalltalk. The former opened my eyes to a perspective on how to think about how “fast” a language is. The latter I really appreciated because he distilled a paper that I am interested in but otherwise would never have been able to parse. Again, it makes me very sad and confused that such videos only are getting a couple hundred views.
You’re right about Be a Better Dev being very AWS focused. That’s what I had in mind when I chose it as a channel that I like. I started a job somewhat recently where we use AWS stuff, and it’s all new to me because I had never used it before. I’ve spent time googling around for content that explains AWS stuff, and his was a pretty clear winner for me. I check his channel before I read the docs. If you know of something better I’d love to hear about it.
I watched a few of the DHH, Eric Normand and Be a Better Dev videos. DHH’s videos are very good, actually I was sucked into watching a couple, but he doesn’t have very many. Also, your link points to his old channel, and now all those videos are https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9wALaIpe0Py6E_oHCgTrD6FvFETwJLlx, although he only did one more in that series. The couple Eric Normand videos were pretty good, I could imagine that there are really good ones somewhere in the feed. For Be a Better Dev, the videos seemed pretty low quality, very focused on learning AWS-specific technologies. It gave me the impression that he was just following traffic for what to talk about, the exact opposite of DHH. It’s the equivalent of YouTube blogspam.
Thank you for your input here, it’s great to get some more data points!
For Eric Normand I think it can be a bit hit or miss. Some of them I find to be meh, but others I really love. Two that I’ve watched recently that I’ve loved were How is Haskell faster than C? and The Early History of Smalltalk. The former opened my eyes to a perspective on how to think about how “fast” a language is. The latter I really appreciated because he distilled a paper that I am interested in but otherwise would never have been able to parse. Again, it makes me very sad and confused that such videos only are getting a couple hundred views.
You’re right about Be a Better Dev being very AWS focused. That’s what I had in mind when I chose it as a channel that I like. I started a job somewhat recently where we use AWS stuff, and it’s all new to me because I had never used it before. I’ve spent time googling around for content that explains AWS stuff, and his was a pretty clear winner for me. I check his channel before I read the docs. If you know of something better I’d love to hear about it.