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Arjay McCandless hunts bugs hiding between perfectly working functions

His debugging tutorial tops a five-upload week, alongside Git-server stress tests and a new eight-core programming challenge.

Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.

10/10 prompt for debugging.10/10 prompt for debugging.
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Arjay McCandless has a specific request for your coding agent: "Find all the implicit state machines in my app." The useful part of his most-watched upload this week is the explanation that follows, not just the prompt to copy.

In "10/10 prompt for debugging.", he uses an online order to show how software moves between states: pending, paid, shipped, delivered. When the rules governing those changes are scattered across functions and files, an order can slip into a state nobody intended, such as shipped but never charged. Each individual function might work; the trouble lives between them.

The tutorial has reached nearly 96,000 views. In the comments, developers describe recognizing a pattern they had used without knowing its name, while others discuss applying the idea at work. One viewer's practical obstacle to trying it immediately was the hour: well past bedtime.

His longer experiments continued, too. "How Many Developers Can ONE Git Server Handle?" puts bare Git, Forgejo and GitLab CE on the same hardware, then adds simulated developers working with repositories including Django and the Linux kernel. It's a concrete way to ask what the conveniences of a full Git platform cost.

The newest upload, "Which Programming Language Can Handle the Most Users on 8 Cores?", currently has the strongest viewing momentum. Arjay follows requests into Postgres and examines community submissions in languages including Java, Swift, C and Rust. That expands the hardware canvas of the small-server experiments readers may remember.

The channel gained about 1,000 subscribers over the week, though daily views are running somewhat below their usual level. Among nearby technology channels, Tool Finder had a slightly larger weekly viewing total, while Digital Spaceport had a quieter week. For Arjay, the fresh eight-core challenge is now drawing views fastest, with "Deploying a Vector Database" next among his active uploads.

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What viewers say

  • You've just articulate something I unconsciously learned to do over a decade of being a software engineer. That was great
    @jonathanmarler5808See it on YouTube
  • I would've tried it right now, if it wasn't 3:30am, but thanks for explanation
  • i always just called this "operation flow" or "decision tree", but i see now why things always felt close but never exact, and that is because i was addressing it by the wrong name. this is really the information i needed to fill the gap i kept trying to avoid!
    @herbertmilhommeSee it on YouTube
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  • I will use this at work, we have lots of these
    @gianlucav.4780See it on YouTube
  • This is why my application is both serverless and stateless. No bugs!
    @slothmaster912See it on YouTube
  • Hard core channel with deep meaty tech insights. Love it.
    @trevthea5781See it on YouTube
  • Honestly interesting pattern to think about. Mega common as well implicitly.
    I think an existing repo will have far too many. Maybe going forward it would be wise to incorporate this.
    @IhsanMujdeciSee it on YouTube

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The facts
Subscribers
137,000 ▲ 1,000 this week
Channel views, last 7 days
477,583
Videos published this week
5
Video published
November 10, 2026
Video views so far
95,855
Views on its first day
55,063

The numbers

Here is how Arjay McCandless's week looks in views and subscribers.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels
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953,193
Wes Roth
588,308
javidx9
12,972
Jabrils
2,765
subscribers
137,000
▲ 1,000 in the last 7 days
total views
49,513,209
views per day
98,136
typical day: 112,970
first-day views of each video posted this week
subscribers: this channel and similar channels
Matt Wolfe
1,030,000
Jabrils
481,000
Wes Roth
335,000
javidx9
332,000
As of November 14, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube
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