Speakers or youtubers specifically?

I've recently been enjoying https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3RKA4vunFAfrfxiJhPEplw for architecture stuff

@UK0810AQ2 really any educational resource, i just wanted to make the question quickly approachable.

I'm currently enjoying watching this prof be very excited about databases (especially sql). I started with the advanced db classes. I'll probably have to do the assignments to really grasp things though. https://youtube.com/@CMUDatabaseGroup A tad sad datomic never gets love even as a dismissal lol

He is passionate, and I'll take a passionate bias over an apathy any day.

Casey Muratory, PWL in general, William Byrd, Kevlin Henny

https://youtube.com/@SystemCrafters

I've been watching/listening a lot of Conor Hoekstra for the past year https://youtube.com/@code_report

I quite like the style of Oliver Caldwell, very good at sharing the thought process whist live coding https://youtube.com/@OliverCaldwell I am going to update a lot of the Clojure videos I've created on the Practicalli channel this year, so I am pretty sure I wont be my own favourite after watching 100+ hours of myself 😭

Jon Gjengset, his Crust of Rust series is awesome

It's a completely separate domain, shouldn't be a problem at all.

If I develop some value on the domain, couldn't the squatter activate their .com TLD with some content that could hurt my brand? I think most people autopilot to .com, but I guess that's something that's changing.

Yes, but I wouldn't worry. You can have many other ways to specify which domain should actually be used by users. Official Twitter/Facebook/whatever accounts, maybe records in some public business registries, whatever else.

If you really care about names and will have products attached to those names, it's much more important to have a proper trademark in place rather than a perfect domain.

My understanding is that once you have a trademark you can take over squatted domains, but it's kind of a lengthy process and might cost some money.

I think maintaining a trademark will be the least of your concerns if you end up generating value with a name and typosquatting is detrimental to that. It’s a cost I’d consider on par with the annual registration filings that we have to do in the US each year to keep a business.