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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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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
4 mo on HNInteractive notebooks ~ Pluto.jl | Fons van der Plas | JuliaCon 2020
The Julia Programming Language
6 HN recommender · 2020–2021
6 mo on HNZebras All the Way Down - Bryan Cantrill, Uptime 2017
Code & Supply
6 HN recommender · 2018–2025
5 mo on HNEmacs Org-mode - a system for note-taking and project planning
Google TechTalks
5 HN recommender · 2009–2024
4 mo on HNTomorrow Corporation Tech Demo
retrogameinternals
5 HN recommender · 2023–2026
4 mo on HNDtrace Review
GoogleTalksArchive
4 HN recommender · 2013–2026
5 mo on HNRails Conf 2013 The Magic Tricks of Testing by Sandi Metz
Confreaks
5 HN recommender · 2013–2019
4 mo on HNJavascript in 2015
Glen Maddern
3 HN recommender · 2015–2017
4 mo on HNEmacs For Writers
thoughtbot
3 HN recommender · 2016–2024
4 mo on HN"Finding bugs without running or even looking at code" by Jay Parlar
Strange Loop Conference
4 HN recommender · 2019–2023
4 mo on HNAutonomous Testing and the Future of Software Development - Will Wilson
The Linux Foundation
1 HN recommend · 2019–2024
4 mo on HNi3wm: Jump Start (1/3)
Alex Booker
4 HN recommender · 2015–2020
4 mo on HNTwenty Minutes of Reasons to Use the RemedyBG Debugger
Molly Rocket
4 HN recommender · 2022–2024
4 mo on HNEmacs Rocks! Episode 17: Magit
emacsrocks
4 HN recommender · 2017–2020
4 mo on HNDebugging with the Scientific Method - Stuart Halloway
ClojureTV
4 HN recommender · 2015–2023
4 mo on HNA quick tour of TeXmacs
TeXmacs Videos
3 HN recommender · 2021–2023
4 mo on HN"Tree-sitter - a new parsing system for programming tools" by Max Brunsfeld
Strange Loop Conference
4 HN recommender · 2018–2024
4 mo on HNStanford Seminar - Google's Steve Yegge on GROK
Stanford Online
3 HN recommender · 2013–2024
4 mo on HNJohn Hughes - Testing the Hard Stuff and Staying Sane
ClojureTV
4 HN recommender · 2016–2026
4 mo on HNConsistent Technical Documents Using Emacs and Org Mode
spudlyo
2 HN recommender · 2020–2025
3 mo on HNEmily Shea - "Perl Out Loud"
The Perl and Raku Conference - Greenville, SC 2026
3 HN recommender · 2019–2022
3 mo on HNTabs Outliner Overview
omnray
3 HN recommender · 2014–2015
4 mo on HNJ B Rainsberger Integrated Tests Are A Scam HD
Christopher Cabanne
4 HN recommender · 2017–2023
3 mo on HNIntroduction to Git with Scott Chacon of GitHub
InfoQ
3 HN recommender · 2012–2016
3 mo on HNNOTCURSES III: THE SAGA CONTINUES (1080P)
Nick Black
4 HN recommender · 2021–2024
4 mo on HNShouting in the Datacenter
Bryan Cantrill
4 HN recommender · 2011–2026
4 mo on HNAnders Hejlsberg on Modern Compiler Construction
Kasper
4 HN recommender · 2018–2023
3 mo on HNDan Abramov The wet codebase
eswarnichtsmehrfrei
3 HN recommender · 2023–2024
3 mo on HNLet Vim Do the Typing
thoughtbot
3 HN recommender · 2017–2021
3 mo on HNEmacs From Scratch #1 - Getting Started with a Basic Usable Configuration
System Crafters
3 HN recommender · 2021–2024
3 mo on HNHillel Wayne - Beyond Unit Tests: Taking Your Testing to the Next Level - PyCon 2018
PyCon 2018
3 HN recommender · 2018–2023
3 mo on HNLambda World 2018 - What FP can learn from Smalltalk by Aditya Siram
Lambda World
2 HN recommender · 2020–2023
3 mo on HNSaving Voyager 1! - Bruce Waggoner at !!Con 2024
!!Con
4 HN recommender · 2024–2026
3 mo on HNBruce Hauman - Developing ClojureScript With Figwheel
ClojureTV
3 HN recommender · 2017–2022
3 mo on HNEmacs Doom Episode 1 - Getting Started
Zaiste Programming
3 HN recommender · 2019–2020
3 mo on HNLinux Kernel Development, Greg Kroah-Hartman - Git Merge 2016
GitHub
3 HN recommender · 2016–2023