# Dreams of Code: Latest YouTube Videos & Shorts

Markdown version of https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@dreamsofcode/videos/ from vidIQ YouTube Stats. Link to that page, not to this file.

As of 2026-11-13, Dreams of Code has 211,000 subscribers, 16,276,836 total views, and 122 videos. It ranks #355,480 by subscribers among channels tracked by vidIQ.

The most recent uploads from [Dreams of Code](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@dreamsofcode/). Each video links to its own stats page. The page lists the rest of the channel's videos to signed-in vidIQ users.

## About this sample

- The latest upload vidIQ has for Dreams of Code is “Why I'm no longer using Docker (on a VPS)”, a long-form video published Nov 3, 2026.
- These are Dreams of Code’s 48 most recent public uploads vidIQ has data for, published between Oct 5, 2024 and Nov 3, 2026 (48 long-form videos).
- Median views across these 48 uploads: 81,169. 24 videos are above that median and 24 below.
- Most viewed in the sample: “Writing code by hand is now an advantage” (394,313 views, Aug 16, 2026). Least viewed: “Streaming on a 32 Core Linux Machine” (3,159 views, Oct 5, 2024).
- Median length: 20:45 for 48 long-form videos.
- In this sample, Dreams of Code’s consecutive uploads were a median of 12 days apart (shortest gap 0 days, longest 45 days).
- Views are lifetime totals as of Nov 14, 2026, so newer uploads have had less time to collect them. These figures describe only the videos listed here, not the whole channel, and do not show why any video performed as it did. Dates are UTC.

## Recent uploads

| Video | Published (UTC) | Format | Views | Duration | Outlier score |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Why I'm no longer using Docker (on a VPS)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@dreamsofcode/videos/zCzQ88aXV4g/) | 2026-11-03 | Long-form | 118,295 | 16:54 | 4.15x |
| [I was wrong about Rust on the web](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@dreamsofcode/videos/HfRQjix9tU4/) | 2026-09-27 | Long-form | 85,185 | 12:40 | 2.98x |
| [Writing code by hand is now an advantage](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@dreamsofcode/videos/bzYziksDslU/) | 2026-08-16 | Long-form | 394,313 | 17:40 | 6.82x |
| [Rust's shortest function is more complicated than you might think.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@dreamsofcode/videos/8vDN_8rd5yQ/) | 2026-07-12 | Long-form | 25,718 | 14:05 | - |
| [This is my favorite way to secure a VPS in 2026.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@dreamsofcode/videos/KqOceMFrMqA/) | 2026-06-23 | Long-form | 30,348 | 15:33 | - |
| [One of the toughest engineering problems I've encountered recently](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@dreamsofcode/videos/kT7IqQWcMtg/) | 2026-06-10 | Long-form | 30,915 | 20:44 | - |
| [I finally found a reason to build my own AI agent](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@dreamsofcode/videos/WkpEuogh3OY/) | 2026-05-19 | Long-form | 28,363 | 22:35 | - |
| [Rust on the web is starting to look quite good.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@dreamsofcode/videos/yeeEmnAnAVs/) | 2026-04-21 | Long-form | 118,089 | 24:58 | 1.33x |
| [I finally found a solution for my token costs, one that won't last forever...](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@dreamsofcode/videos/qwo6w_sLTSw/) | 2026-04-14 | Long-form | 19,937 | 8:15 | - |
| [The weirdest programming language I ever learned](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@dreamsofcode/videos/4LwTJpURhTY/) | 2026-02-28 | Long-form | 93,683 | 24:15 | 2.01x |
| [Why I'm so bullish about Rust in 2026](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@dreamsofcode/videos/WhjEL817Onw/) | 2026-02-17 | Long-form | 137,894 | 19:49 | 2.04x |
| [I'm never writing another Makefile ever again](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@dreamsofcode/videos/_aQ8xJ5DuHY/) | 2026-01-31 | Long-form | 84,524 | 16:37 | 1.69x |
| [Clawdbot (OpenClaw) is everything I was hoping A.I. would be](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@dreamsofcode/videos/Z-FXHuiUJSU/) | 2026-01-25 | Long-form | 164,808 | 23:15 | 1.95x |
| [10 Better Auth plugins that every SaaS should use](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@dreamsofcode/videos/CpBgjjnXuy4/) | 2026-01-18 | Long-form | 30,565 | 15:18 | - |
| [10 Zsh hacks I wish I knew about sooner](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@dreamsofcode/videos/3fVAtaGhUyU/) | 2025-12-30 | Long-form | 122,862 | 17:28 | 1.45x |
| [Doppler is without a doubt my favorite secrets management platform](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@dreamsofcode/videos/GFnKgGtFKFQ/) | 2025-12-21 | Long-form | 31,838 | 25:49 | - |
| [All of the changes I've made to my tech stack in 2025](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@dreamsofcode/videos/kEyXx955EEo/) | 2025-11-30 | Long-form | 39,814 | 16:58 | - |
| [I may have just broken standup (using n8n)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@dreamsofcode/videos/CJMaqmYhKqU/) | 2025-11-22 | Long-form | 50,224 | 26:04 | - |
| [Solving the one thing that keeps me up at night (in software dev)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@dreamsofcode/videos/ZOAi8A7eNNo/) | 2025-11-02 | Long-form | 40,144 | 26:49 | - |
| [10 useful CLI apps I'm guessing you've not heard of](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@dreamsofcode/videos/VGtxARciwDM/) | 2025-10-23 | Long-form | 124,763 | 19:07 | 0.91x |
| [Why I'm no longer using Stripe](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@dreamsofcode/videos/zM9k0WI1FrM/) | 2025-10-09 | Long-form | 228,263 | 20:47 | 1.7x |
| [Coolify vs Dokploy: Why I decided to use one over the other](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@dreamsofcode/videos/RoANBROvUeE/) | 2025-09-16 | Long-form | 119,380 | 36:53 | 1.02x |
| [I finally found my favorite laptop backpack](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@dreamsofcode/videos/uyNdM9ag5Vw/) | 2025-09-10 | Long-form | 186,812 | 23:18 | 1.67x |
| [json/v2 is fixing many of Go's JSON quirks](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@dreamsofcode/videos/8fcjcoXXMVQ/) | 2025-08-26 | Long-form | 34,919 | 17:35 | - |
| [10 CLI apps that have actually improved the way I work in the terminal](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@dreamsofcode/videos/EJ6uvqhKR4M/) | 2025-08-16 | Long-form | 275,869 | 24:24 | 3.31x |
| [Better Auth is so good that I \*\*almost\*\* switched programming languages](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@dreamsofcode/videos/dNY4FKXwTsM/) | 2025-07-30 | Long-form | 114,658 | 27:14 | 1.76x |
| [Dokploy is my absolute favorite way to deploy to a VPS in 2025](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@dreamsofcode/videos/ELkPcuO5ebo/) | 2025-07-20 | Long-form | 204,819 | 25:01 | 3.15x |
| [I tried vibe coding for 30 days. Here's what I learnt...](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@dreamsofcode/videos/PDMxbbejgcA/) | 2025-07-09 | Long-form | 149,149 | 27:17 | 2.33x |
| [Securing a VPS using the "Belt and Braces" approach (ft Tailscale)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@dreamsofcode/videos/RVZuYL0aehY/) | 2025-07-02 | Long-form | 42,656 | 16:59 | - |
| [This is perhaps my favorite use of A.I. so far. (MCP)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@dreamsofcode/videos/d05vNPmIIqc/) | 2025-06-03 | Long-form | 56,102 | 19:52 | 1.01x |
| [Everything that I like, dislike, and plan to change in my tech stack.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@dreamsofcode/videos/XbN66h912NU/) | 2025-05-25 | Long-form | 109,117 | 24:42 | 1.45x |
| [I honestly thought it was over for Redis...](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@dreamsofcode/videos/sYurw5ongRA/) | 2025-05-09 | Long-form | 37,436 | 8:44 | - |
| [There's more than one way to scale Redis/Valkey to 1M op/s...](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@dreamsofcode/videos/uptpnVdwFM4/) | 2025-04-29 | Long-form | 30,994 | 28:01 | - |
| [It's time for a change](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@dreamsofcode/videos/tBS2PY2t9Mw/) | 2025-04-08 | Long-form | 57,231 | 9:14 | - |
| [Rolling my own auth ended up being a mistake...](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@dreamsofcode/videos/ViWcOJkQsHI/) | 2025-03-16 | Long-form | 72,921 | 11:44 | 1.15x |
| [Alpine.js makes client side interactivity stupidly simple](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@dreamsofcode/videos/vLB7r8neQvE/) | 2025-02-04 | Long-form | 115,710 | 30:02 | 1.1x |
| [What I've been up to recently...](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@dreamsofcode/videos/v9NC2P328sI/) | 2025-01-29 | Long-form | 70,631 | 6:56 | 1.01x |
| [I tried deploying to a VPS without Docker... just to see how hard it is.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@dreamsofcode/videos/DmbBgXK8M5M/) | 2025-01-23 | Long-form | 94,976 | 33:00 | 1.4x |
| [10 things I learnt in 2024 to increase my developer productivity.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@dreamsofcode/videos/A_3MP_V-kB4/) | 2024-12-28 | Long-form | 77,814 | 18:46 | - |
| [docker stack is my new favorite way to deploy to a VPS](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@dreamsofcode/videos/fuZoxuBiL9o/) | 2024-11-21 | Long-form | 277,383 | 27:47 | 2.76x |
| [The embed package is a lot more useful than I originally thought...](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@dreamsofcode/videos/7EK06n485nk/) | 2024-11-17 | Long-form | 58,788 | 16:56 | - |
| [We finally have a monitor designed specifically for writing code: BenQ RD320UA review](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@dreamsofcode/videos/rp1fEKGkG2M/) | 2024-11-11 | Long-form | 136,566 | 17:09 | 0.84x |
| [This weird keyboard technique has improved the way I type.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@dreamsofcode/videos/sLWQ4Gx88h4/) | 2024-10-31 | Long-form | 208,567 | 17:04 | 1.51x |
| [Adding some features to my transcription app](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@dreamsofcode/videos/JXadpzul6vM/) | 2024-10-26 | Long-form | 5,678 | 1:53:28 | - |
| [SQLc is the perfect tool for those who don't like ORMs](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@dreamsofcode/videos/VX6KzpjaPp8/) | 2024-10-14 | Long-form | 189,986 | 28:11 | 2.52x |
| [Streaming on a 32 Core Linux Machine](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@dreamsofcode/videos/xb8BRSjKSFE/) | 2024-10-06 | Long-form | 4,527 | 59:38 | - |
| [Streaming on a 32 Core Linux Machine](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@dreamsofcode/videos/CSxIy7XF9zw/) | 2024-10-05 | Long-form | 3,173 | 53:42 | - |
| [Streaming on a 32 Core Linux Machine](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@dreamsofcode/videos/xzITv0dSzYY/) | 2024-10-05 | Long-form | 3,159 | 2:16:21 | - |

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