# ForrestKnight: Latest YouTube Videos & Shorts

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

As of 2026-10-28, ForrestKnight has 707,000 subscribers, 52,191,038 total views, and 425 videos. It ranks #106,949 by subscribers among channels tracked by vidIQ.

The most recent uploads from [ForrestKnight](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@fknight/). 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 ForrestKnight is “So I've Been Using Omarchy for 357 Days...”, a long-form video published Oct 23, 2026.
- These are ForrestKnight’s 48 most recent public uploads vidIQ has data for, published between May 24, 2025 and Oct 23, 2026 (36 long-form videos and 12 Shorts).
- Median views across these 48 uploads: 89,965. 24 videos are above that median and 24 below.
- Most viewed in the sample: “Every Programmer's Favorite Laptop // you can win one” (1,077,874 views, Dec 12, 2025). Least viewed: “Portable Workstation” (13,892 views, Aug 22, 2025).
- Median length: 19:01 for 36 long-form videos; 0:51 for 12 Shorts.
- In this sample, ForrestKnight’s consecutive uploads were a median of 9 days apart (shortest gap 0 days, longest 40 days).
- Views are lifetime totals as of Oct 28, 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 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [So I've Been Using Omarchy for 357 Days...](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@fknight/videos/C7-cYjdmI2s/) | 2026-10-23 | Long-form | 84,776 | 40:54 | 1.31x |
| [Why Companies Are Still On Java 8](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@fknight/videos/4ubVtKwaoI8/) | 2026-10-14 | Long-form | 172,981 | 17:03 | 1.88x |
| [Man, I love Java...](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@fknight/videos/29k3eay4Lr4/) | 2026-09-16 | Long-form | 107,806 | 10:28 | 0.78x |
| [Why Every Company Copied Netflix's Architecture (And Shouldn't Have)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@fknight/videos/I_of74HSHiA/) | 2026-09-14 | Long-form | 179,771 | 22:12 | 1.61x |
| [Why Rust Can't Replace C++](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@fknight/videos/QNPwKMOQIKM/) | 2026-09-02 | Long-form | 476,816 | 16:30 | 7.27x |
| [AI Has Broken Open Source](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@fknight/videos/qazhWj8kYLo/) | 2026-08-17 | Long-form | 167,559 | 25:45 | 2.56x |
| [Why Everyone's Rewriting Everything in Rust](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@fknight/videos/iu_ALBDtoHo/) | 2026-08-10 | Long-form | 263,962 | 25:37 | 4.72x |
| [My IntelliJ IDEA Setup for Java Development](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@fknight/videos/nZ9PBEXyBYA/) | 2026-07-27 | Long-form | 48,003 | 17:14 | - |
| [Coding with Grok 4.5 is surprisingly good…](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@fknight/videos/5J6HCDEkg64/) | 2026-07-10 | Long-form | 31,548 | 27:02 | - |
| [AI Isn't Actually Replacing Developers (Big Tech Layoffs)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@fknight/videos/7QKcphdM5Cw/) | 2026-07-02 | Long-form | 56,162 | 35:23 | - |
| [Local AI Coding is Finally Good Enough](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@fknight/videos/zPqcS5AvQvQ/) | 2026-06-18 | Long-form | 226,182 | 22:23 | 2.08x |
| [Coding with Fable 5 is actually insane.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@fknight/videos/2kObwHxHILQ/) | 2026-06-12 | Long-form | 32,135 | 29:58 | - |
| [The Anthropic Conspiracy](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@fknight/videos/UYbZo6UuMMY/) | 2026-06-10 | Long-form | 40,648 | 15:29 | - |
| [I Can't Believe Rust Is Replacing Zig](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@fknight/videos/2AqwehBu84w/) | 2026-05-22 | Long-form | 74,781 | 16:16 | - |
| [Wait, I thought Java was dead?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@fknight/videos/HhPs2sKlQYg/) | 2026-05-01 | Long-form | 125,113 | 28:45 | 1.15x |
| [GitHub is Falling Apart](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@fknight/videos/t-DM44d-qhU/) | 2026-04-30 | Long-form | 54,398 | 23:58 | - |
| [Stop calling SBF a good investor.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@fknight/videos/yYgEnxPXKOg/) | 2026-04-23 | Short | 39,488 | 1:43 | - |
| [SpaceX wants to acquire Cursor for $60B](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@fknight/videos/g3hMBOeNnNo/) | 2026-04-23 | Short | 24,595 | 1:28 | - |
| [So Claude Code's Source Code Was Just Leaked...](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@fknight/videos/ESwH-_xFS_M/) | 2026-04-02 | Long-form | 110,155 | 29:17 | 1.01x |
| [AI Has Broken the Internet](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@fknight/videos/44JBZwAsfJI/) | 2026-03-30 | Long-form | 195,307 | 17:17 | 1.91x |
| ["Stop future proofing your PCs" is bad advice.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@fknight/videos/Nx4VUdwb-GU/) | 2026-03-21 | Short | 82,033 | 0:51 | 2.82x |
| [Coding with Opus 4.6 and Codex 5.3 is actually insane](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@fknight/videos/Q2QmQTNA7vs/) | 2026-02-10 | Long-form | 107,408 | 22:14 | 1.05x |
| [I Can't Believe Rust is Replacing Java](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@fknight/videos/-8JOlCvA4Qs/) | 2026-02-03 | Long-form | 178,337 | 7:45 | 1.88x |
| [SWE or Dev](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@fknight/videos/bNXqBcm4rvY/) | 2026-01-22 | Short | 19,398 | 0:36 | - |
| [Ben Affleck actually knows AI](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@fknight/videos/7wWrbNjc3SQ/) | 2026-01-21 | Short | 214,374 | 2:57 | 11.89x |
| [Regretting Computer Science](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@fknight/videos/ecV07gkVxUg/) | 2025-12-16 | Short | 39,141 | 0:43 | 2.18x |
| [33 CLI Tools You Need to Try](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@fknight/videos/XhLMS47l8Bw/) | 2025-12-15 | Long-form | 58,154 | 16:27 | 1.04x |
| [Every Programmer's Favorite Laptop // you can win one](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@fknight/videos/H3Q-zXz1BpU/) | 2025-12-12 | Short | 1,077,874 | 0:58 | 63.3x |
| [Rust Changed How I Code Forever](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@fknight/videos/3lvofS5vktc/) | 2025-12-01 | Long-form | 97,163 | 15:06 | 1.38x |
| [I Tried Coding on Every OS // Here’s What I Learned](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@fknight/videos/yz4i8vD-Klc/) | 2025-11-13 | Long-form | 379,295 | 24:15 | 4.15x |
| [Java Isn't Verbose // we just suck](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@fknight/videos/UZuWeLjyT3c/) | 2025-10-31 | Long-form | 56,543 | 21:15 | 1.01x |
| [Everything You Need to Know About Coding with AI // NOT vibe coding](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@fknight/videos/5fhcklZe-qE/) | 2025-10-15 | Long-form | 337,093 | 13:15 | 3.68x |
| [AI is writing 90% of your code?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@fknight/videos/howz8BKRUQM/) | 2025-09-26 | Short | 301,751 | 0:19 | 18.75x |
| [Java just got cleaner](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@fknight/videos/YLCrAm-aGI8/) | 2025-09-16 | Long-form | 90,086 | 7:29 | 1.85x |
| [Java is 30 Years Old // Here’s Why It’s Still Winning](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@fknight/videos/spJwsa4KFrU/) | 2025-09-11 | Long-form | 89,843 | 9:34 | 2.39x |
| [Portable Workstation](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@fknight/videos/s3uqGfDc8P8/) | 2025-08-22 | Short | 13,892 | 0:51 | - |
| [Why Everyone's Switching to Rust (And Why You Shouldn't)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@fknight/videos/meEXag1XCFw/) | 2025-08-19 | Long-form | 591,089 | 14:44 | 7.2x |
| [AI Has Changed How We Build Software // What You Need to Know](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@fknight/videos/3VQhdXcQ5qI/) | 2025-08-12 | Long-form | 92,470 | 28:30 | 2.6x |
| [Everything You NEED to Know About TECH DEBT](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@fknight/videos/ukgmp6uxQJc/) | 2025-07-24 | Long-form | 65,461 | 25:33 | 1.39x |
| [My New PC // I have way too many.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@fknight/videos/m5rvhYKrIM4/) | 2025-07-22 | Short | 16,631 | 0:45 | - |
| [My Linux Ubuntu Setup for Software Development](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@fknight/videos/T3sax7PB0vw/) | 2025-07-07 | Long-form | 411,786 | 21:23 | 5.43x |
| [I Overengineered 3 Buttons to Explain Software Architecture](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@fknight/videos/Aw3_hOG3BzE/) | 2025-06-25 | Long-form | 20,677 | 14:11 | - |
| [Computer Melting](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@fknight/videos/OAiLfS7Gx-g/) | 2025-06-20 | Short | 17,650 | 0:41 | - |
| [i'm sorry nixOS, i've failed you. maybe next time.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@fknight/videos/YMxTTTBZhYM/) | 2025-06-13 | Long-form | 129,055 | 15:02 | 1.97x |
| [This Is Programmer Heaven! // What It’s Like Inside Micro Center in Silicon Valley](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@fknight/videos/eQMge4nIfbg/) | 2025-06-12 | Long-form | 20,722 | 10:30 | - |
| [My Favorite Way to Learn a New Codebase](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@fknight/videos/jqHXJ3O7WGw/) | 2025-06-04 | Long-form | 71,523 | 18:16 | 1.39x |
| [My Trip to Silicon Valley](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@fknight/videos/6sgcrQGP3iA/) | 2025-06-02 | Short | 15,386 | 1:19 | - |
| [Coding with Claude 4 is actually insane](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@fknight/videos/lhjGDKqutB0/) | 2025-05-24 | Long-form | 114,603 | 19:47 | 1.59x |

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