Testing, Debugging & Developer Tools Videos Hacker News Recommends — Page 2

demo#965

Twenty Minutes of Reasons to Use the RemedyBG Debugger

Molly Rocket

“Here's Casey Muratori demonstrating all the way in which RemedyBG rocks.”

4 HN recommenders · 2022–2024

demo#968

Emacs Rocks! Episode 17: Magit

emacsrocks

“I always share this demo with people to show off just a tiny portion of what it's capable of doing”

4 HN recommenders · 2017–2020

talk#1040

Debugging with the Scientific Method - Stuart Halloway

ClojureTV

“changed how I debug problems. I try to watch it once every year or two.”

4 HN recommenders · 2015–2023

demo#1045

A quick tour of TeXmacs

TeXmacs Videos

“See here a short video describing its features”

3 HN recommenders · 2021–2023

talk#1053

"Tree-sitter - a new parsing system for programming tools" by Max Brunsfeld

Strange Loop Conference

“Highly recommend Max Brunsfield's strange loop talk if you want to learn more about the design choices behind tree-sitter”

4 HN recommenders · 2018–2024

talk#1059

Stanford Seminar - Google's Steve Yegge on GROK

Stanford Online

“this talk by Steve Yegge was both entertaining and informative”

3 HN recommenders · 2013–2024

talk#1180

John Hughes - Testing the Hard Stuff and Staying Sane

ClojureTV

“John Hughes (not the filmmaker) gives a great talk about it”

4 HN recommenders · 2016–2026

demo#1190

Consistent Technical Documents Using Emacs and Org Mode

spudlyo

“I think does a pretty good job of illustrating the power of Org.”

2 HN recommenders · 2020–2025

talk#1281

Emily Shea - "Perl Out Loud"

The Perl and Raku Conference - Greenville, SC 2026

“This video from the article is a phenomenal demonstration of dictation coding”

3 HN recommenders · 2019–2022

demo#1293

Tabs Outliner Overview

omnray

“Tabs Outliner puts every tab as a leaf in a tree, and you can nest leaves”

3 HN recommenders · 2014–2015

talk#1318

J B Rainsberger Integrated Tests Are A Scam HD

Christopher Cabanne

“JBRainsberger has an nice talk on them [1].”

4 HN recommenders · 2017–2023

talk#1336

Introduction to Git with Scott Chacon of GitHub

InfoQ

“This is the video that I keep recommending to new people who want to know how it works on a technical level.”

3 HN recommenders · 2012–2016

demo#1352

NOTCURSES III: THE SAGA CONTINUES (1080P)

Nick Black

“the WTF effect that video had on me lasted quite a while.”

4 HN recommenders · 2021–2024

demo#1429

Shouting in the Datacenter

Bryan Cantrill

“this entertaining YouTube video from 2009, in which someone demonstrates the effect by literally shouting at a rack of servers”

4 HN recommenders · 2011–2026

lecture#1446

Anders Hejlsberg on Modern Compiler Construction

Kasper

“I really recommend this video from Anders Hejlsberg (creator of C# and TypeScript)”

4 HN recommenders · 2018–2023

talk#1469

Dan Abramov The wet codebase

eswarnichtsmehrfrei

“Seeing what a premature, wrong abstraction looks like visually was eye opening.”

3 HN recommenders · 2023–2024

tutorial#1491

Let Vim Do the Typing

thoughtbot

“it "clicked" for me after watching this video”

3 HN recommenders · 2017–2021

tutorial#1522

Emacs From Scratch #1 - Getting Started with a Basic Usable Configuration

System Crafters

“System Crafters' 'Emacs from Sratch' series [0], which is incredibly well thought-out”

3 HN recommenders · 2021–2024

talk#1616

Hillel Wayne - Beyond Unit Tests: Taking Your Testing to the Next Level - PyCon 2018

PyCon 2018

“I found this talk (by the same person being interviewed) to be concise and convincing on how to do better than typical practice”

3 HN recommenders · 2018–2023

talk#1708

Lambda World 2018 - What FP can learn from Smalltalk by Aditya Siram

Lambda World

“I think it is the most accessible explanation of the marvel of Smalltalk”

2 HN recommenders · 2020–2023

talk#1722

Saving Voyager 1! - Bruce Waggoner at !!Con 2024

!!Con

“The talk is amazing and goes through the computer architecture of the spacecraft”

4 HN recommenders · 2024–2026

talk#1767

Bruce Hauman - Developing ClojureScript With Figwheel

ClojureTV

“it's a very visual demonstration of what hot-reloading code and interactive development can bring”

3 HN recommenders · 2017–2022

tutorial#1818

Emacs Doom Episode 1 - Getting Started

Zaiste Programming

“To get started I highly recommend this series by Zaiste”

3 HN recommenders · 2019–2020

talk#1854

Linux Kernel Development, Greg Kroah-Hartman - Git Merge 2016

GitHub

“Just dropping this gem of a talk[1], for the uninitiated.”

3 HN recommenders · 2016–2023

tutorial#1875

Redoing Make - Haskell from Scratch #1

jekor

“the Jekor Redo [1] videos are fantastic, and demonstrate the slow building up of more complicated things than "reverse this string.”

3 HN recommenders · 2014–2021

talk#1914

"The Clean Code Talks -- Inheritance, Polymorphism, & Testing"

Google TechTalks

“This talk gives a great overview of why boolean flags (rather, if-statements) can be a code smell”

3 HN recommenders · 2009–2023

demo#1943

How A Blind Developer Uses Visual Studio

Coding Tech

“I think it is a good demonstration of an expert doing typical developer activities.”

4 HN recommenders · 2019–2023

commentary#1994

Twitter and Visual Studio Rant

Molly Rocket

“Casey Muratori has some great YouTube videos (a.k.a.: rants)”

3 HN recommenders · 2020–2026

demo#2071

Code Bubbles: Rethinking the User Interface Paradigm of Integrated Development Environments

AndrewBragdon

“Code Bubbles (from 2010) is the most convincing code visualization tool that I can recall”

2 HN recommenders · 2011–2024

talk#2091

RustConf 2016 - A Modern Editor Built in Rust by Raph Levien

Confreaks

“So far I've found and enjoyed reading/watching the resources below”

4 HN recommenders · 2016–2018

tutorial#2095

Getting Started With Org Mode

thoughtbot

“which is a great demonstration on Emacs and Org Mode's potential as an organizational tool.”

3 HN recommenders · 2018–2022

demo#2105

NeXT vs Sun

hoffman60613

“I don't know how realistic is this video but it was interesting”

3 HN recommenders · 2015–2026

talk#2120

Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository

@Scale

“I'd recommend this video that describes it.”

2 HN recommenders · 2016–2022

talk#2196

Richard Hipp - Git: Just Say No

southeastlinuxfest

“If the author of SQLite advances some arguments around the proper way of doing version management, I would advise to error on the side of caution and listen at least a second time.”

3 HN recommenders · 2020–2021

talk#2284

The Unix Chainsaw - Gary Bernhardt

timmonta

“gave a great talk about practical problem solving with the unix shell”

2 HN recommenders · 2016–2022

demo#2323

PTVS 2.0 Beta: Mixed-Mode Python/C/C++ Debugging overview

python tools

“if you want to get a feel for an advanced feature, try”

1 HN recommenders · 2013–2015

demo#2401

The new Windows Terminal

Windows Developer

“this advertisting video is super cool and nerdy.”

2 HN recommenders · 2019–2025

commentary#2405

GitHub Actions Feels Bad

fasterthanlime

“This video really highlighted just how brittle the whole thing is even behind the scenes”

2 HN recommenders · 2024–2025

talk#2406

How I Fixed a 10 Year Old Guitar Hero Bug Without the Source Code

ExileLord

“One of the best though, for me, has to be this one on fixing a Guitar Hero bug”

2 HN recommenders · 2017–2025

talk#2426

OCaml Workshop 2020 - State of the OCaml Platform 2020

OCamlWorkshops

“Here's the latest progress report, in case you're interested”

2 HN recommenders · 2020–2021

talk#2446

Software Engineering's Greatest Hits

Greg Wilson

“I highly recommend watching Greg Wilson's Software Engineering's Greatest Hits[1].”

2 HN recommenders · 2021–2022

talk#2468

Google I/O 2011: Chrome Dev Tools Reloaded

Google for Developers

“I am Sold. I am switching to WebDev tools.”

2 HN recommenders · 2011–2012

talk#2545

How We Diagnosed and Fixed the 2023 Voyager 1 Anomaly from 15 Billion Miles Away

Flight Software Workshop

“Blows my mind of the reverse engineering done to achieve this”

2 HN recommenders · 2026

demo#2569

REBL - Stuart Halloway

ClojureTV

“People who have not heard of the REBL, can check out this video”

2 HN recommenders · 2018–2021

talk#2585

Barliman: trying the halting problem backwards, blindfolded - William Byrd, Greg Rosenblatt

ClojureTV

“I work on miniKanren, which is a logic programming language with a complete search that doesn't hit the nontermination issues you mention.”

3 HN recommenders · 2017–2024

demo#2756

Lisp Editing in the 80s - Interlisp SEdit

thoughtupquick

“Dan Ingalls (one of the original authors of Smalltalk) in a 2017 demo of Smalltalk 76”

2 HN recommenders · 2019–2021

tutorial#2774

Using Emacs - 1 - setting up the package manager

Mike Zamansky

“I learned a lot from this CS prof's videos, and it's a good, practical learning path I'd recommend”

2 HN recommenders · 2020–2022

demo#2888

15 Lazygit Features In Under 15 Minutes

Jesse Duffield

“There is a nice video from the author that introduces a lot of its features.”

3 HN recommenders · 2022–2026