Popular live video streaming service, Twitch has more than 30 millions daily users and 8 millions active streamers each month.
Originally focused on live streaming video games, many other areas have become popular on the platform. This is particularly the case for the ‘Science and Technology’ or ‘Just Chatting’ categories, which bring together streamers from different universes and professions, who speak on many themes, including Tech.
Indeed, during successive lockdowns and the cancellation of many face-to-face events, several actors have developed online events.
Other streamers, already known on other platforms such as Youtube, are also now positioning themselves on Twitch to diversify their formats and media of expression. They take the opportunity to discover a new audience, develop new topics, renew themselves and also and above all have more interactions with listeners.
In both cases, the addition of this new meeting place finally became complementary to the existing one.
And for others, expressing themself on Twitch is simply an easy way to speak up and engage in knowledge sharing from home.
Among these many accounts and types of actors, it can be tedious to identify those that are likely to interest you.
To help you find your way through the many existing accounts, we have selected a non-exhaustive list of Tech accounts to follow, to do your watch or simply have a good time.
They address Tech news as a whole, but also sometimes more specifically web and mobile development, data, web design and the product universe, computer security or hardware.
Tech Accounts to Follow on Twitch
- ALSweigart is a web developer, author of the book ‘Automate the Boring Stuff with Python’. It offers coding sessions to help other developers learn or improve in programming.
- Andrewrok and Kristoff_it are developers and involved in Zig Software Foundation. They mainly stream live coding sessions in Zig.
- Ardalis is a live channel every Friday for live coding on .NET and C# development projects.
- The AWS channel offers almost daily live on AWS cloud computing solutions. On the program: live coding, tutorials, event streaming.
- BaldBeardedBuilder aims to help other developers developing their skills. It includes content on VS Code, .NET, JavaScript, TypeScript, and IoT projects.
- BdougieYO is the channel of Brian, a collaborator at Github. On Twitch, he posts live coding videos where he works to stay up to date on JavaScript frameworks and discover new architectures.
- Ben_greenier alternates weekly coding and gaming sessions. Web developer, he tackles various Tech topics and supports the association The Trevor Project.
- Bryanlrobinson is both a developer and a designer. It offers good code practices and speaks of HTML, CSS and Jamstack.
- With Clarkio you will find exchanges on various Tech topics such as application security, VS Code extensions, and chatbots. There is a strong interactivity with chat discussions.
- Several times a week CodeRushed is online to advance on C# development and UX/UI Design projects.
- CodeWithAhsan is a channel hosted by a senior JavaScript developer. It provides advices for developers of all levels, and offers ‘Ask me Anything’ sessions.
- CodingAfterWork is present every Thursday. The hosts, Jessica Engstrom and Jimmy Engstrom, receive guests from the tech world or perform live coding, on projects such as: re-writing codingafterwork.com in C# and Blazor (fixing the CSS, some accessibility, mobile friendly, opensource project with Blazor components called Blazm.
- CodingButter offers daily live performances on weekdays. This developer helps his peers in live, answering questions and performing code review. He also performs live coding, notably in Node and React.
- CodingGarden offers a weekly meeting that can take different formats: tutorial, question and answer session, algorithmic problem solving or live application creation. All mainly in the JavaScript universe.
- Crazy4pi314 is a specialist in quantum technology and likes open source projects. On Tuesdays and Wednesdays, she shares her passion, tools and news on quantum technology, the Q# programming language and the Quantum Development Kit.
- With Csharpfritz, you can find weekly videos and tips on app development.
This streamer is also the founder of The Live Coders site and community. This community brings together an inclusive panel of Coders/Developers/Technologists who stream and create content around their Tech skills. Their mojo is ‘Learn to code by watching us’. - Cyberbarbie shares her journey as a developer in Python and Rust. She is also committed to make learning code and its languages accessible to as many people as possible by offering tutorials.
- Cyber_Insecurity frequently offers streams dedicated to cybersecurity, both for professionals and amateurs. News, trends and tips are discussed with experts from the Tech industry.
- DevelopersGarage streams on Tuesdays and Thursdays to share his explorations and learnings around Microsoft technologies, the cloud, and web and mobile development.
- Developer_skills is powered by two IBM developers. The channel discusses open source technologies, resource sharing, and meet-up replays.
- Funfunfunction is online every Monday and Wednesday to exchange and code with the mob programming approach.
- Howtocodewell offers three weekly meetings: one to move forward on development projects in PHP, Python, JavaScript or Docker, one to give advice on how to learn and improve in development, and one to discuss more informally around Tech.
- Every week JitterTed streams on topics such as Java, Spring, TDD, hexagonal architecture and the art of learning. Experienced developer, he is also a coach and technical trainer, and wants to help other developers to improve themselves.
- JdotW offers daily live code streams in Swift, NodeJS and React. He creates both applications for iOS, but also musical instruments with the C language, microprocessors, …
- JessesKinner offers code in JavaScript, HTML and CSS, and content on how to code or learn new ways or best practices to do so. This is a great place for novice or experienced developers to ask their questions.
- Jojobyte presents projects developed in Rust, Zig, Docker, JavaScript, Vue.js, Svelte and Node.js. These current projects are: development of a cross-platform application meant to be an alternative to built-in OS docks and also a collection of tools to help automate the streaming process and eliminate additional 3rd party services.
- LaylaCodesIt is where Layla, a developer at VMware, shares her knowledge through live code sessions, but also her commitments, such as the #WomenOfDotNet collective of which she is the founder.
- Lizziepikachu is live every Monday and Wednesday to discuss mainly machine learning and data. She animates alone or with guests.
- On Madebygps you find a Microsoft developer, who streams every Tuesday on programming with .NET, Azure Serverless and the cloud in general.
- On MicrosoftDeveloper you will find live event broadcasts, tutorials, product demonstrations and presentations and tips on Microsoft tools, including Microsoft Azure.
- Nnjaio offers lives on Tuesdays and Fridays to exchange with the Python community. The channel is hosted by a developer, also author on Frontendmasters.
- NomadCodemist is online on Wednesdays and Fridays. This Brazilian developer offers live coding sessions on projects in Angular, Django, React or Python, sharing sessions on her JavaScript learning and streams for solving technical challenges.
- Novas1r1 is the channel of an application developer in Flutter and Dart. She shares her development and offers help and advices to novices.
- SaiForceOne is a self-taught developer who shares live coding sessions on web and mobile. He loves JavaScript and React JS, and also covers UI Design topics.
- SekeiDesign shares its Product Designer resources and experiences with tools such as Notion, Webflow, Figma and TailwindCSS.
- Strager is online every weekday. Focused on mutual help, he offers content on best practices and code review sessions on different languages. He also contributes to the quick-lint-js project, which consists to find bugs in JavaScript programs.
- SlimDevOps brings together Linux and container technology enthusiasts. They talk about security and technical debt.
- TheAltF4Stream is a channel hosted by Austin, geek and gamer, and Erik, DevOps Engineer. And weekly meetings are offered on the theme of DevOps.
- Thecybermentor describes himself as an ethical developer/hacker. He conducts penetration tests and mentors those who wish to learn or develop in the field of cybersecurity.
- ThrashingCode offers replays of Meetup and sessions to learn how to code in JavaScript and master algorithms.
- Togglebit regularly streams videos on RUST language.
- Also present on Youtube, UncleScientist, is an experienced developer who appreciates and shares mainly on RUST language.
If you are interested in one of these accounts, do not hesitate to follow it directly on Twitch, to be alerted of the next scheduled live sessions.
For French speakers, you can also consult this article which lists the French-speaking Tech accounts to follow on Twitch.
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