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YouTube, the video hosting site, has a special place in my heart because I helped make it.

Around 2010 I was part of the team that created YouTube’s TrueView ads, the ones with the skip button. While I was doing that work I visited the YouTube HQ plenty of times; I even swam in the pool.


Much of the code I worked on is still in use today, so every time you hit that skip button you’re interacting with something I played a small part in creating. You’re welcome! It’s in Dart, by the way.

Here are some links to videos.

🔗 The YouTube skip button and objects models with package:source_gen
There’s actually a video on YouTube of me talking about the Dart behind the skip button. It seemed weird not to mention it.

Here are some links to entertaining videos.

🔗  Dani DaOrtiz on Penn & Teller: Fool Us
P&T:FS is a showcase for amazing magic talent; I must have watched hundreds of performances by now. Well, here’s one of my favourites. It’s “just” card tricks, and I’d say it’s about as close to real magic as you can get.

🔗 Markobi on Penn & Teller: Fool Us
More incredible card magic. When you watch it for the second time, look closely at when P&T laugh—they’re (mostly) not laughing at the jokes.

🔗 NileRed: Making purple gold
NileRed is a channel full of incredibly fun but also long and detailed chemistry demonstrations. The whole channel is great, I picked this one because I tremendously enjoy that dissolving a bar of gold in a beaker is a thing that happens.

🔗 Knightmare
My absolute favourite TV show as a kid: a gameshow, although that word barely starts to do it justice, in which four players roleplay their way through a quest in a CGI world. One of the many things to love about it is that each adventure goes on for as long as it takes—sometimes spanning many episodes, sometimes ending in a literal misstep leading to a quick demise.

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