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

by karimf 3y ago

muffa 3y ago
+1, he is entertaining :)
VirusNewbie 3y ago
I don't have time to watch him regularly, but I really enjoy that he can both walk the walk as well as pontificate on a variety of programming topics. There are a lot of coding streamers/influencers who don't have the breadth and depth he does, nor the high level experience at a top tech company. They either did a year at Meta and became full time streamers, or are purely competitive programmers, but ThePrimeagen hits the sweet spot for me. I think he's a great example for lots of engineers everywhere, especially those who are just getting into the idustry. He didn't have an easy path either of just getting a FAANG internship and job right out of college, he had to work his way up to where he is now.
rrishi 3y ago
I used to like him but started to feel he keeps ranting about very similar topics a lot: 1. neovim >>> vscode 2. X > JS (X=Rust, Go, OCaml etc) I feel he doesn't do justice to his seniority and breadth of knowledge. He, for sure, knows a ton. Yet chooses to waste streams on noob topics like editor wars, programming language wars etc. I much prefer Theo-T3 because he finds interesting topics and really explores tech in depth.
- qup 3y ago
  > Yet he chooses to get hella views with noob topics like editor wars, programming language wars etc. I fixed that. Those topics almost certainly perform better because they're automatically controversial.
- joshxyz 3y ago
  theo t3 excels very well on this one, really finds the balance on talking about opposing views of different people without being overly opinionated about it.
  - kingkongjaffa 3y ago
    I find the total opposite, his video feed just reads like the front page of HN most low effort topic. Im not hating at all but for example https://youtu.be/ZOYp6-k9HhE?feature=shared https://youtu.be/ZOYp6-k9HhE?feature=shared Theres nothing insightful there that wasnt just in the comments of hn a few days ago.
lakomen 3y ago
He's a Troll and authoritarian. At first he was kind-of entertaining, but he's full of himself and thinks he knows it all. And his stupid, nonsensical editor wars. The more I watched him to more u disliked him and eventually unfollowed. And his noob topics are boring as well. He's pretty much the average HN user, only more experienced. He believes the hype. Like htmx is hyped so he does htmx. His streams provide nothing for me in terms of new information that us useful.
level87 3y ago
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kebsup 3y ago
I like to watch his blog post reads on YouTube.
umbs 3y ago
There's some strong views about ThePrimeagen in this thread. Just want to share my experience. I've spent tonnes of time configuring Vim, Neovim etc. Its ... a ... mess. I love both editors and for the love of me, I don't know why configuring them is soooo hard and brittle. ThePrimeagen videos on Vim/Neovim is by far information dense videos. It took me sometime to ignore his style of presentation and just focus on content. However, the value I got out of watching his videos is undeniable. Knowing his background a bit and how he battled addiction gave me some context. (Sorry can't find that video on his channel now) Continuing on this topic of Vim/Neovim ... Leeren Chen (https://www.youtube.com/@leeren_ https://www.youtube.com/@leeren_) is pure genius on the topic of configuring Vim. I've never seen another person like him on Youtube, who uses Vimscript to configure Vim to make it work like an IDE (almost). [1] https://youtu.be/JFr28K65-5E https://youtu.be/JFr28K65-5E [2] https://youtu.be/Gs1VDYnS-Ac https://youtu.be/Gs1VDYnS-Ac TJ Devries (https://www.youtube.com/@teej_dv https://www.youtube.com/@teej_dv) videos on Neovim are awesome too (He's core dev of Neovim). But there's lot of gimmicks in his video and it can put people off. His videos with @BashBunni is very approachable in terms of learning about and configuring Neovim.

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

by karimf 3y ago

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

muffa 3y ago

+1, he is entertaining :)

VirusNewbie 3y ago

I don't have time to watch him regularly, but I really enjoy that he can both walk the walk as well as pontificate on a variety of programming topics. There are a lot of coding streamers/influencers who don't have the breadth and depth he does, nor the high level experience at a top tech company. They either did a year at Meta and became full time streamers, or are purely competitive programmers, but ThePrimeagen hits the sweet spot for me. I think he's a great example for lots of engineers everywhere, especially those who are just getting into the idustry. He didn't have an easy path either of just getting a FAANG internship and job right out of college, he had to work his way up to where he is now.

rrishi 3y ago

I used to like him but started to feel he keeps ranting about very similar topics a lot: 1. neovim >>> vscode 2. X > JS (X=Rust, Go, OCaml etc) I feel he doesn't do justice to his seniority and breadth of knowledge. He, for sure, knows a ton. Yet chooses to waste streams on noob topics like editor wars, programming language wars etc. I much prefer Theo-T3 because he finds interesting topics and really explores tech in depth.

qup 3y ago
> Yet he chooses to get hella views with noob topics like editor wars, programming language wars etc. I fixed that. Those topics almost certainly perform better because they're automatically controversial.
joshxyz 3y ago
theo t3 excels very well on this one, really finds the balance on talking about opposing views of different people without being overly opinionated about it.
- kingkongjaffa 3y ago
  I find the total opposite, his video feed just reads like the front page of HN most low effort topic. Im not hating at all but for example https://youtu.be/ZOYp6-k9HhE?feature=shared https://youtu.be/ZOYp6-k9HhE?feature=shared Theres nothing insightful there that wasnt just in the comments of hn a few days ago.

lakomen 3y ago

He's a Troll and authoritarian. At first he was kind-of entertaining, but he's full of himself and thinks he knows it all. And his stupid, nonsensical editor wars. The more I watched him to more u disliked him and eventually unfollowed. And his noob topics are boring as well. He's pretty much the average HN user, only more experienced. He believes the hype. Like htmx is hyped so he does htmx. His streams provide nothing for me in terms of new information that us useful.

level87 3y ago

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kebsup 3y ago

I like to watch his blog post reads on YouTube.

umbs 3y ago

There's some strong views about ThePrimeagen in this thread. Just want to share my experience. I've spent tonnes of time configuring Vim, Neovim etc. Its ... a ... mess. I love both editors and for the love of me, I don't know why configuring them is soooo hard and brittle. ThePrimeagen videos on Vim/Neovim is by far information dense videos. It took me sometime to ignore his style of presentation and just focus on content. However, the value I got out of watching his videos is undeniable. Knowing his background a bit and how he battled addiction gave me some context. (Sorry can't find that video on his channel now) Continuing on this topic of Vim/Neovim ... Leeren Chen (https://www.youtube.com/@leeren_ https://www.youtube.com/@leeren_) is pure genius on the topic of configuring Vim. I've never seen another person like him on Youtube, who uses Vimscript to configure Vim to make it work like an IDE (almost). [1] https://youtu.be/JFr28K65-5E https://youtu.be/JFr28K65-5E [2] https://youtu.be/Gs1VDYnS-Ac https://youtu.be/Gs1VDYnS-Ac TJ Devries (https://www.youtube.com/@teej_dv https://www.youtube.com/@teej_dv) videos on Neovim are awesome too (He's core dev of Neovim). But there's lot of gimmicks in his video and it can put people off. His videos with @BashBunni is very approachable in terms of learning about and configuring Neovim.