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Testing, debugging & developer tools Videos Recommended on Hacker News (155)
Testing, debugging & developer tools is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 155 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2007 and 2026 — 535 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.
Developer tools and quality: debugging, debuggers, unit testing, TDD, fuzzing, version control, git, editors, vim, emacs, IDEs, build systems, CI, observability, refactoring.
Why HN keeps sending people here — on RailsConf 2014 - All the Little Things by Sandi Metz: “this talk captures all the important values in a single example.” — an HN commenter, 2016.
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15 mo on HNRailsConf 2014 - All the Little Things by Sandi Metz
Confreaks
15 HN recommender · 2015–2025
11 mo on HN"Testing Distributed Systems w/ Deterministic Simulation" by Will Wilson
Strange Loop Conference
12 HN recommender · 2014–2024
11 mo on HN🚀 TDD, Where Did It All Go Wrong (Ian Cooper)
DevTernity Conference
11 HN recommender · 2018–2024
11 mo on HNBret Victor - Inventing on Principle
Rui Oliveira
12 HN recommender · 2013–2025
11 mo on HNSolving Problems the Clojure Way - Rafal Dittwald
Clojure/north
10 HN recommender · 2019–2025
11 mo on HNDebugging Under Fire: Keep your Head when Systems have Lost their Mind • Bryan Cantrill • GOTO 2017
GOTO Conferences
8 HN recommender · 2018–2025
10 mo on HN"Performance Matters" by Emery Berger
Strange Loop Conference
12 HN recommender · 2019–2025
10 mo on HNA Tour of the Acme Editor
Russ Cox
11 HN recommender · 2012–2026
8 mo on HNTech Talk: Linus Torvalds on git
Google
9 HN recommender · 2007–2023
9 mo on HN"How NOT to Measure Latency" by Gil Tene
Strange Loop Conference
9 HN recommender · 2015–2026
9 mo on HNRuby Conf 12 - Boundaries by Gary Bernhardt
Confreaks
8 HN recommender · 2015–2024
9 mo on HNUsing Python to Code by Voice
Next Day Video
12 HN recommender · 2013–2025
10 mo on HNHow to Do 90% of What Plugins Do (With Just Vim)
thoughtbot
10 HN recommender · 2016–2025
8 mo on HNLecture 6: Version Control (git) (2020)
Missing Semester
9 HN recommender · 2020–2023
9 mo on HNLiterate Devops with Emacs
Howard Abrams
8 HN recommender · 2015–2025
7 mo on HN[Linux.conf.au 2013] - Git For Ages 4 And Up
HackersOnBoard
8 HN recommender · 2013–2023
8 mo on HN7 minutes of Pharo Smalltalk for Rubyists
Avdi Grimm
5 HN recommender · 2017–2026
8 mo on HN"Stop Writing Dead Programs" by Jack Rusher (Strange Loop 2022)
Strange Loop Conference
9 HN recommender · 2022–2025
7 mo on HNMastering the Vim Language
thoughtbot
5 HN recommender · 2016–2026
7 mo on HN[EPILEPSY WARNING] How fast should an unoptimized terminal run?
Molly Rocket
6 HN recommender · 2021–2026
7 mo on HNEmacs Rocks! Episode 14: Paredit
emacsrocks
8 HN recommender · 2013–2022
6 mo on HN"Voice Driven Development: Who needs a keyboard anyway?" by Emily Shea
Strange Loop Conference
5 HN recommender · 2020–2023
6 mo on HNI don't like notebooks.- Joel Grus (Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence)
O'Reilly
6 HN recommender · 2018–2025
6 mo on HNVisiData Lightning Demo at PyCascades 2018
Saul Pwanson
6 HN recommender · 2018–2025
6 mo on HNCppCon 2017: Matt Godbolt “What Has My Compiler Done for Me Lately? Unbolting the Compiler's Lid”
CppCon
7 HN recommender · 2018–2022
6 mo on HN7 Habits For Effective Text Editing 2.0
GoogleTalksArchive
5 HN recommender · 2013–2023
7 mo on HNCppCon 2017: Titus Winters “C++ as a "Live at Head" Language”
CppCon
7 HN recommender · 2017–2022
6 mo on HNEmacs + org-mode + python in reproducible research; SciPy 2013 Presentation
Enthought
5 HN recommender · 2014–2018
5 mo on HNDavid Kriesel: Traue keinem Scan, den du nicht selbst gefälscht hast
media.ccc.de
4 HN recommender · 2019–2025
5 mo on HNI Like Notebooks
Jeremy Howard
4 HN recommender · 2020–2025
6 mo on HNThe Clean Architecture in Python
Next Day Video
5 HN recommender · 2017–2021
6 mo on HNEvil Mode: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Emacs
thoughtbot
6 HN recommender · 2015–2020
6 mo on HNCppCon 2015: Greg Law " Give me 15 minutes & I'll change your view of GDB"
CppCon
6 HN recommender · 2018–2023
5 mo on HNStevey's Tech Talk E39 -- A guided tour of Emacs
Steve Yegge
5 HN recommender · 2022–2024
6 mo on HNTigerStyle! (Or How To Design Safer Systems in Less Time) by Joran Dirk Greef
TigerBeetle
2 HN recommender · 2023–2025
5 mo on HN"Controlling Time and Space: understanding the many formulations of FRP" by Evan Czaplicki
Strange Loop Conference
5 HN recommender · 2014–2026