Testing, Debugging & Developer Tools Videos Hacker News Recommends

Testing, debugging & developer tools videos on HackerTube: the talks, lectures and explainers Hacker News commenters keep sharing, covering debugging, debuggers, unit testing, TDD, fuzzing, version control, git, editors, vim, emacs, IDEs, build systems, CI, observability, refactoring.

137 videos · ranked by HN recommendations · showing 1–48

Most recommended testing, debugging & developer tools videos

The ones HN returns to most often when a thread turns to this topic.

talk#12

RailsConf 2014 - All the Little Things by Sandi Metz

Confreaks

“this talk captures all the important values in a single example.”

15 HN recommenders · 2015–2025

talk#57

"Testing Distributed Systems w/ Deterministic Simulation" by Will Wilson

Strange Loop Conference

“this is one of the most amazing talks on distributed systems”

12 HN recommenders · 2014–2024

talk#60

🚀 TDD, Where Did It All Go Wrong (Ian Cooper)

DevTernity Conference

“This excellent talk completely changed the way I approached testing. Every developer who writes tests needs to watch this now!”

11 HN recommenders · 2018–2024

talk#61

Bret Victor - Inventing on Principle

Rui Oliveira

“My mind was blown when I saw this video 2 years ago”

12 HN recommenders · 2013–2025

talk#87

Solving Problems the Clojure Way - Rafal Dittwald

Clojure/north

“I urge you to watch this fantastic video which illustrates procedural, OOP(lite), and FP approaches to a sample problem”

10 HN recommenders · 2019–2025

talk#93

Debugging Under Fire: Keep your Head when Systems have Lost their Mind • Bryan Cantrill • GOTO 2017

GOTO Conferences

“The best postmortem I've seen was actually a conference talk”

8 HN recommenders · 2018–2025

talk#102

"Performance Matters" by Emery Berger

Strange Loop Conference

“this is the most amazing optimisation information I have seen”

12 HN recommenders · 2019–2025

tutorial#142

A Tour of the Acme Editor

Russ Cox

“Russ Cox has a great video tour of Acme's features here”

11 HN recommenders · 2012–2026

talk#154

Tech Talk: Linus Torvalds on git

Google

“This talk by Linus is iconic, if you haven't watched it you should.”

9 HN recommenders · 2007–2023

talk#166

"How NOT to Measure Latency" by Gil Tene

Strange Loop Conference

“This a life changing video by Gil Tene on this topic.”

9 HN recommenders · 2015–2026

talk#170

Ruby Conf 12 - Boundaries by Gary Bernhardt

Confreaks

“I highly recommend this video for a more philosophical take on how to do "impure FP" without OO”

8 HN recommenders · 2015–2024

talk#176

Using Python to Code by Voice

Next Day Video

“Travis Rudd's incredible demo of voice coding [1]”

12 HN recommenders · 2013–2025

talk#186

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

thoughtbot

“Max Cantor has a great talk about that on YouTube”

10 HN recommenders · 2016–2025

lecture#202

Lecture 6: Version Control (git) (2020)

Missing Semester

“I think that this video should be considered mandatory viewing if you're a developer using Git”

9 HN recommenders · 2020–2023

demo#253

Literate Devops with Emacs

Howard Abrams

“His video on literate programming for DevOps via Emacs' Org-mode was very impressive and inspiring to me. It's my favorite.”

8 HN recommenders · 2015–2025

talk#263

Dan Abramov - Live React: Hot Reloading with Time Travel at react-europe 2015

ReactEurope

“One of my favourites I watched recently was Dan Abramov introducing React hot loading, Redux and Redux Dev Tools in the same 30 minute talk”

12 HN recommenders · 2015–2022

talk#267

[Linux.conf.au 2013] - Git For Ages 4 And Up

HackersOnBoard

“it's the one video that allowed me to fully grasp everything”

8 HN recommenders · 2013–2023

demo#271

7 minutes of Pharo Smalltalk for Rubyists

Avdi Grimm

“As a Ruby developer this video about Pharo smalltalk made me a smalltalk believer”

5 HN recommenders · 2017–2026

talk#310

"Stop Writing Dead Programs" by Jack Rusher (Strange Loop 2022)

Strange Loop Conference

“One of my favorite talks is”

9 HN recommenders · 2022–2025

talk#333

Mastering the Vim Language

thoughtbot

“In video form, the best introduction I have seen is Chris Toomey’s”

5 HN recommenders · 2016–2026

demo#364

[EPILEPSY WARNING] How fast should an unoptimized terminal run?

Molly Rocket

“Casey spent <1 week making RefTerm, a skeleton proto-terminal with the same constraints Microsoft people had”

6 HN recommenders · 2021–2026

tutorial#394

Emacs Rocks! Episode 14: Paredit

emacsrocks

“it's well worth the 3:40.”

8 HN recommenders · 2013–2022

talk#406

"Voice Driven Development: Who needs a keyboard anyway?" by Emily Shea

Strange Loop Conference

“There's a great strangeloop talk[2] demonstrating talon and the actual state of voice coding”

5 HN recommenders · 2020–2023

talk#450

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

O'Reilly

“The parent article links this great talk that goes into more detail than the parent post and is much easier to understand”

6 HN recommenders · 2018–2025

demo#471

VisiData Lightning Demo at PyCascades 2018

Saul Pwanson

“visdata is pretty mind-blowing...at least, that's how i felt when i saw the demo the first time”

6 HN recommenders · 2018–2025

talk#485

CppCon 2017: Matt Godbolt “What Has My Compiler Done for Me Lately? Unbolting the Compiler's Lid”

CppCon

“Both are great presentations going into details on some of the crazy optimizations compilers will do.”

7 HN recommenders · 2018–2022

talk#503

7 Habits For Effective Text Editing 2.0

GoogleTalksArchive

“There is a wonderful presentation called '7 Habits For Effective Text Editing 2.0' [1] explaining this philosophy.”

5 HN recommenders · 2013–2023

talk#508

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

CppCon

“a much more nuanced look at dependencies & versioning”

7 HN recommenders · 2017–2022

talk#520

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

Enthought

“on Emacs + org-mode + python in reproducible research is worth a watch”

5 HN recommenders · 2014–2018

talk#533

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

media.ccc.de

“If you speak german and haven’t seen this yet, watch it, this is a classic.”

4 HN recommenders · 2019–2025

talk#538

I Like Notebooks

Jeremy Howard

“I strongly recommend Jeremy Howard's (founder of fast.ai) recent talk”

4 HN recommenders · 2020–2025

talk#544

The Clean Architecture in Python

Next Day Video

“I'd really recommend this video.”

5 HN recommenders · 2017–2021

talk#554

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

thoughtbot

“Aaron gave a great talk about his switch here”

6 HN recommenders · 2015–2020

talk#565

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

CppCon

“this brilliant short talk (15min) about gdb's TUI.”

6 HN recommenders · 2018–2023

demo#597

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

Steve Yegge

“Two videos by Steve Yegge should be enough to convince the most dyed-in-the-wool anti-Emacser to consider re-evaluating their position.”

5 HN recommenders · 2022–2024

talk#610

TigerStyle! (Or How To Design Safer Systems in Less Time) by Joran Dirk Greef

TigerBeetle

“The TigerStyle video is well worth watching for anyone who wants to build defect-free software systems”

2 HN recommenders · 2023–2025

talk#626

"Controlling Time and Space: understanding the many formulations of FRP" by Evan Czaplicki

Strange Loop Conference

“I highly recommend Evan's Strange Loop talk”

5 HN recommenders · 2014–2026

talk#635

Interactive notebooks ~ Pluto.jl | Fons van der Plas | JuliaCon 2020

The Julia Programming Language

“I think every new notebook project should take ideas from Julia's Pluto”

6 HN recommenders · 2020–2021

talk#671

Zebras All the Way Down - Bryan Cantrill, Uptime 2017

Code & Supply

“As with all his talks, you can expect it to be quite entertaining as well as informative”

6 HN recommenders · 2018–2025

talk#693

Emacs Org-mode - a system for note-taking and project planning

Google TechTalks

“The best advertisement for org-mode I've seen is this long Google Tech Talk”

5 HN recommenders · 2009–2024

demo#724

Tomorrow Corporation Tech Demo

retrogameinternals

“this demo has got to be the closest thing to the perfect debugger I've ever seen”

5 HN recommenders · 2023–2026

talk#774

Dtrace Review

GoogleTalksArchive

“I'm partial to Bryan Cantrill's Dtrace talk since it tackles a fundamental problem in software engineering and shows how to solve it using a new technology.”

4 HN recommenders · 2013–2026