I just watched lichess founder Thibault live-coding lichess on twitch. The stream had about 10 viewers. Blows my mind that such minds are accessible if you know where to look.
Others I treasure are: john romero (twitch), george hotz (twitch), and stephen wolfram (twitch, youtube).
The latter also has astonishingly low viewer numbers (typically <20).
What other lesser-known gems are out there?
“Tsoding Daily/Tsoding” on YouTube/Twitch is entertaining and covers a very wide range of topics. I don’t think he’s “classically trained” per se, but he’s knowledgeable and great at solving interesting problems.
I haven’t checked it out yet, but I think Ryan Carniato (the creator of SolidJS) streams live coding on YouTube too.