Testing, Debugging & Developer Tools Videos Hacker News Recommends — Page 3

talk#2955

Debugging The Web (Chrome Dev Summit 2016)

Chrome for Developers

“Paul Irish has a great roundup here”

2 HN recommenders · 2016–2018

demo#3000

CygnusEd Professional in Action on an Amiga 2000

Casey Muratori

“For those who never used CED on an Amiga, this is how it ran on now 30 years old hardware clocked at 8 MHz.”

1 HN recommenders · 2016–2023

talk#3011

Velocity 09: John Allspaw and Paul Hammond, "10+ Deploys Pe

O'Reilly

“It was really a pivotal talk in the early days of the DevOps movement”

2 HN recommenders · 2018–2023

talk#3038

ChatOps at GitHub - Jesse Newland

Rubyfuza

“There's a pretty good talk on "chatops" by the guys at GitHub[0].”

2 HN recommenders · 2013–2021

talk#3047

"Cursorless: A spoken language for editing code" by Pokey Rule (Strange Loop 2023)

Strange Loop Conference

“If you want a general overview of cursorless, along with seeing what it looks like in practice, the talk from Strange Loop this year was great”

2 HN recommenders · 2023–2026

talk#3082

PDE: A different take on editing code

TJ DeVries

“For anyone not understanding why (neo)vim exists, or why some developers prefer it to IDEs, I suggest watching”

2 HN recommenders · 2022–2025

commentary#3162

The Worst Typo I Ever Made

Tom Scott

“Tom Scott has a great video on his "Oh Shoot" moment”

2 HN recommenders · 2020–2026

tutorial#3196

Marco Baringer's SLIME Tutorial Video

손주일 (Cecil)

“This is what the lisp repl is like. There's not much else like it”

2 HN recommenders · 2019–2024

talk#3203

Tree-sitter: a new parsing system for programming tools - GitHub Universe 2017

GitHub

“There is a long (42 minutes) but worth to watch talk about tree-sitter”

2 HN recommenders · 2018–2022

talk#3232

Web Development in Emacs, Common Lisp and Clojurescript - Emacs SG

Engineers.SG

“This video also has great examples of other crazy interactive development workflows and is worth watching in its entirety”

2 HN recommenders · 2018–2022

podcast#3382

Cursor Team: Future of Programming with AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #447

Lex Fridman

“The founders did an episode on Lex Fridman's podcast that covers the technical sides of Cursor far better than I ever could”

2 HN recommenders · 2024–2025

tutorial#3411

Vim universe. fzf - command line fuzzy finder

Alexey Samoshkin

“another resource I found valuable early on”

2 HN recommenders · 2020–2023

talk#3462

Anthony Scopatz - xonsh - PyCon 2016

PyCon 2016

“It's very easy to switch if you're willing to spend 30 minutes to go through this talk about its design by the author”

2 HN recommenders · 2016–2025

interview#3609

Where GREP Came From - Computerphile

Computerphile

“My favourite BWK video is about grep.”

1 HN recommenders · 2018–2020

talk#3724

Is TDD dead?

Thoughtworks

“I can't recommend the discussion between Kent Beck, David Hansson and Martin Fowler enough.”

1 HN recommenders · 2014–2022

demo#3786

Alto System Project: Larry Tesler demonstration of Gypsy

Computer History Museum

“In 2017 Tesler recorded a demo with the Computer History Museum on their restored Alto”

1 HN recommenders · 2021–2025

talk#3792

Building Software at Google Scale Tech Talk

Google TechTalks

“there is an interesting video "Building Software at Google Scale" [1], which seems to give an overview of the systems used.”

1 HN recommenders · 2013–2014

demo#3859

Live ClojureScript Game Editor

ibdknox

“These are couple of good examples”

1 HN recommenders · 2012–2016

talk#3908

Keynote - Preventing, Finding, and Fixing Bugs On a Time Budget | Raymond Hettinger @ PyBay2018

SF Python

“This is a good talk by the core developer Raymond Hettinger [1].”

1 HN recommenders · 2020–2022

talk#3957

(ninth RacketCon): Andrew Blinn – Fructure: A Structured Editing Engine in Racket

Racket

“Andrew Blinn gave a neat talk[1] pertaining to structured editing at Racketcon”

2 HN recommenders · 2019–2021

interview#4081

Jim Coplien and Bob Martin Debate TDD

alexsmail

“this was a fun discussion about TDD between two professionals”

1 HN recommenders · 2014–2017

talk#4125

GoingNative 2012 - Day 2 - Clang

aghuttun

“Chandler from Google makes the good case here for Clang.”

1 HN recommenders · 2015–2022

talk#4162

Tudor Gîrba - Moldable development

Curry On!

“To get a better idea of what I think is the better approach, check out these talks”

1 HN recommenders · 2022–2024

commentary#4199

Ex Microsoft Employee tells secrets on why Windows 10 bugs exist 👨‍💻 - @Barnacules

Barnacules Nerdgasm

“Hear about it first hand from an ex windows software tester”

1 HN recommenders · 2020–2024

demo#4212

VimSpeak Demo

Ashley Feniello

“I found VimSpeak [1] interesting because I somehow understood how to really compose vim commands”

1 HN recommenders · 2016–2026

talk#4277

F8 2015 - Big Code: Developer Infrastructure at Facebook's Scale

Meta Developers

“It's a long video but it's very watchable using the YouTube speed multiplier.”

1 HN recommenders · 2015–2016

talk#4297

Killing the Walk Monster

Molly Rocket

“talking about the problem and how they solved it in The Witness”

1 HN recommenders · 2021–2025

talk#4298

Alen Ladavac - Taking CI and automated testing seriously - WebCamp Zagreb 2018

WebCamp Zagreb

“Here's also a good overview how Croteam (creators of Serious Sam and The Talos Principle) approach automated testing”

1 HN recommenders · 2020–2022

demo#4314

S1E8: Show And Tell: Efrit: When Steve Gives Claude Full Access To 50 Years of Emacs Capabilities

Vibe Coding With Steve and Gene

“this is a fun watch”

1 HN recommenders · 2025–2026

talk#4334

The Remote Agent Experiment: Debugging Code from 60 Million Miles Away

Google TechTalks

“Ron Garret talks about DS1, a project in the 90s where a small team used Lisp”

1 HN recommenders · 2012–2024

talk#4353

So You Think You Know Git - FOSDEM 2024

GitButler

“Great tech talk covering some of the newer lesser-known git features”

1 HN recommenders · 2024–2025

talk#4371

2016 LLVM Developers’ Meeting: D. Dunbar “A New Architecture for Building Software”

LLVM

“has a presentation.”

1 HN recommenders · 2017–2020

talk#4452

Prioritizing Technical Debt as if Time & Money Matters • Adam Tornhill • GOTO 2019

GOTO Conferences

“I think Adam Tornhill has a nice take on this.”

1 HN recommenders · 2021–2022

demo#4520

Debugging Lisp: fix and resume a program from any point in the stack - how Common Lisp stands out.

vindarel

“my demo to show how to resume execution of a long running program, from the stack frame right before the bug”

1 HN recommenders · 2023–2025

demo#4522

Emacs Rocks! Episode 13: multiple-cursors

emacsrocks

“One of the better examples of the usefulness of multiple cursors is from Emacs Rocks”

1 HN recommenders · 2014–2026

interview#4667

Two decades of Git: A conversation with creator Linus Torvalds

GitHub

“What a great piece of work by a great software developer.”

1 HN recommenders · 2025–2026

demo#4687

Intentional Programming demo (Part 1) - Editor

dftube

“Here are a couple of demo vids from well over 10 years ago”

1 HN recommenders · 2007–2024

podcast#4700

John Carmack: Best programming setup and IDE | Lex Fridman Podcast Clips

Lex Clips

“This was one of the more interesting parts of John Carmack's interview on Fridman's podcast”

1 HN recommenders · 2022–2025

tutorial#4710

NixOS VM on Mac Setup

Mitchell Hashimoto

“My general setup mirrors this[1] pretty closely”

1 HN recommenders · 2022–2024

demo#4740

How a Blind Developer Uses Visual Studio (Microsoft Build 2017)

Kompetenzzentrum Digitale Barrierefreiheit

“my go to example of this is this talk by Saqib Shaikh”

1 HN recommenders · 2024–2026

demo#4788

800+ days of Minecraft in 8 minutes

Minecraft

“Minecraft released an animation of their first 800+ days of dev”

1 HN recommenders · 2016–2023