[bsoles]

> ... regular wires with plastic isolation, but those can be a pain to strip, even with a semi-decent stripping tool.

> Boil away a millimeter or 2 of enamel without cutting the wire off the spool.

The person spends 18 seconds (see the video) to "boil away" and tin the tip of the enamel wire, yet complains about using a wire stripper to strip the wire in 5 seconds.

I mostly use breadboards even with microcontroller stuff (at 16 MHz, or so), and never run into any problems for constructing semi-permanent circuits. The PCB version of breadboards (https://www.adafruit.com/product/571) also work pretty well. There area also little PCB adaptors to integrate surface-mount components on breadboards that work well.