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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 HN

RailsConf 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 HN

Bret Victor - Inventing on Principle

Rui Oliveira
12 HN recommender · 2013–2025
11 mo on HN

Solving Problems the Clojure Way - Rafal Dittwald

Clojure/north
10 HN recommender · 2019–2025
11 mo on HN

Debugging 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 HN

A Tour of the Acme Editor

Russ Cox
11 HN recommender · 2012–2026
8 mo on HN

Tech 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 HN

Ruby Conf 12 - Boundaries by Gary Bernhardt

Confreaks
8 HN recommender · 2015–2024
9 mo on HN

Using Python to Code by Voice

Next Day Video
12 HN recommender · 2013–2025
10 mo on HN

How to Do 90% of What Plugins Do (With Just Vim)

thoughtbot
10 HN recommender · 2016–2025
8 mo on HN

Lecture 6: Version Control (git) (2020)

Missing Semester
9 HN recommender · 2020–2023
9 mo on HN

Literate 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 HN

7 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 HN

Mastering 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 HN

Emacs 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 HN

I don't like notebooks.- Joel Grus (Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence)

O'Reilly
6 HN recommender · 2018–2025
6 mo on HN

VisiData Lightning Demo at PyCascades 2018

Saul Pwanson
6 HN recommender · 2018–2025
6 mo on HN

CppCon 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 HN

7 Habits For Effective Text Editing 2.0

GoogleTalksArchive
5 HN recommender · 2013–2023
7 mo on HN

CppCon 2017: Titus Winters “C++ as a "Live at Head" Language”

CppCon
7 HN recommender · 2017–2022
6 mo on HN

Emacs + org-mode + python in reproducible research; SciPy 2013 Presentation

Enthought
5 HN recommender · 2014–2018
5 mo on HN

David Kriesel: Traue keinem Scan, den du nicht selbst gefälscht hast

media.ccc.de
4 HN recommender · 2019–2025
5 mo on HN

I Like Notebooks

Jeremy Howard
4 HN recommender · 2020–2025
6 mo on HN

The Clean Architecture in Python

Next Day Video
5 HN recommender · 2017–2021
6 mo on HN

Evil Mode: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Emacs

thoughtbot
6 HN recommender · 2015–2020
6 mo on HN

CppCon 2015: Greg Law " Give me 15 minutes & I'll change your view of GDB"

CppCon
6 HN recommender · 2018–2023
5 mo on HN

Stevey's Tech Talk E39 -- A guided tour of Emacs

Steve Yegge
5 HN recommender · 2022–2024
6 mo on HN

TigerStyle! (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