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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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3 mo on HNRedoing Make - Haskell from Scratch #1
jekor
3 HN recommender · 2014–2021
3 mo on HN"The Clean Code Talks -- Inheritance, Polymorphism, & Testing"
Google TechTalks
3 HN recommender · 2009–2023
3 mo on HNHow A Blind Developer Uses Visual Studio
Coding Tech
4 HN recommender · 2019–2023
2 mo on HNBret Victor - Inventing on Principle
Colin McDonnell
2 HN recommender · 2015–2024
3 mo on HNTwitter and Visual Studio Rant
Molly Rocket
3 HN recommender · 2020–2026
2 mo on HNCode Bubbles: Rethinking the User Interface Paradigm of Integrated Development Environments
AndrewBragdon
2 HN recommender · 2011–2024
3 mo on HNRustConf 2016 - A Modern Editor Built in Rust by Raph Levien
Confreaks
4 HN recommender · 2016–2018
3 mo on HNGetting Started With Org Mode
thoughtbot
3 HN recommender · 2018–2022
3 mo on HNNeXT vs Sun
hoffman60613
3 HN recommender · 2015–2026
3 mo on HNWhy Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository
@Scale
2 HN recommender · 2016–2022
3 mo on HNRichard Hipp - Git: Just Say No
southeastlinuxfest
3 HN recommender · 2020–2021
2 mo on HNThe Unix Chainsaw - Gary Bernhardt
timmonta
2 HN recommender · 2016–2022
3 mo on HNPTVS 2.0 Beta: Mixed-Mode Python/C/C++ Debugging overview
python tools
1 HN recommend · 2013–2015
2 mo on HNBret Victor Inventing on Principle
Luna Programming Language Tutorials
3 HN recommender · 2020–2022
2 mo on HNThe new Windows Terminal
Windows Developer
2 HN recommender · 2019–2025
2 mo on HNGitHub Actions Feels Bad
fasterthanlime
2 HN recommender · 2024–2025
2 mo on HNHow I Fixed a 10 Year Old Guitar Hero Bug Without the Source Code
ExileLord
2 HN recommender · 2017–2025
2 mo on HNOCaml Workshop 2020 - State of the OCaml Platform 2020
OCamlWorkshops
2 HN recommender · 2020–2021
2 mo on HNSoftware Engineering's Greatest Hits
Greg Wilson
2 HN recommender · 2021–2022
2 mo on HNGoogle I/O 2011: Chrome Dev Tools Reloaded
Google for Developers
2 HN recommender · 2011–2012
2 mo on HNHow We Diagnosed and Fixed the 2023 Voyager 1 Anomaly from 15 Billion Miles Away
Flight Software Workshop
2 HN recommender · 2026–2026
2 mo on HNREBL - Stuart Halloway
ClojureTV
2 HN recommender · 2018–2021
2 mo on HNBarliman: trying the halting problem backwards, blindfolded - William Byrd, Greg Rosenblatt
ClojureTV
3 HN recommender · 2017–2024
2 mo on HNLisp Editing in the 80s - Interlisp SEdit
thoughtupquick
2 HN recommender · 2019–2021
2 mo on HNUsing Emacs - 1 - setting up the package manager
Mike Zamansky
2 HN recommender · 2020–2022
2 mo on HNDtrace Review
Google TechTalks
2 HN recommender · 2011–2021
2 mo on HN15 Lazygit Features In Under 15 Minutes
Jesse Duffield
3 HN recommender · 2022–2026
2 mo on HNDebugging The Web (Chrome Dev Summit 2016)
Chrome for Developers
2 HN recommender · 2016–2018
2 mo on HNCygnusEd Professional in Action on an Amiga 2000
Casey Muratori
1 HN recommend · 2016–2023
2 mo on HNVelocity 09: John Allspaw and Paul Hammond, "10+ Deploys Pe
O'Reilly
2 HN recommender · 2018–2023
2 mo on HNChatOps at GitHub - Jesse Newland
Rubyfuza
2 HN recommender · 2013–2021
2 mo on HN"Cursorless: A spoken language for editing code" by Pokey Rule (Strange Loop 2023)
Strange Loop Conference
2 HN recommender · 2023–2026
2 mo on HNPDE: A different take on editing code
TJ DeVries
2 HN recommender · 2022–2025
2 mo on HNThe Worst Typo I Ever Made
Tom Scott
2 HN recommender · 2020–2026
2 mo on HNMarco Baringer's SLIME Tutorial Video
손주일 (Cecil)
2 HN recommender · 2019–2024
2 mo on HNTree-sitter: a new parsing system for programming tools - GitHub Universe 2017
GitHub
2 HN recommender · 2018–2022