I noticed that I keep telling my close friends about the streamer and software developer ThePrimeagen (Twitch, YouTube, GitHub). If you are working on software and watch videos, you probably know him. As of June 30, 2025, he’s already super popular and lately started doing different concepts, he does more collaborations and I don’t know what he would do in 2 years. I love and learn a lot from his current streams and videos that are being cut from Twitch streams. The Standup (name mocking the daily standups in software teams) with Casey Muratori, Teej, dax and trash is ridiculously precious and entertaining for me.
I don’t/can’t watch all his content of course since he produces too much material. But I’m currently probably hearing him talk every day or every other day. I started my journey with his earlier videos on Neovim, the keyboard in Men in Black, general software-development topics, his memoirs, and his reaction videos (pardon my wording, but i can explain) on software-related articles. I watched or listened to many of the videos multiple times. I even got one reply from him on the YouTube comments which made my day 13 days ago. If I had a chance to pick a video where Prime would reply my comment, I would have picked this video.
I heard people mentioning how he made an impact on a lot of software developers. But experiencing something personally is way different than reading it. I first met with his videos after I resigned my job as a software developer. I was thinking of reconsidering my career after 12 years working in some companies. He changed my life.
I wanted to share my feelings in my private/public blog and potentially introduce him to 1 more person. I can also just share a link to this blog post when I want to mention his work to other people.
