this post was submitted on 02 Dec 2025
914 points (98.6% liked)

Programmer Humor

27578 readers
2618 users here now

Welcome to Programmer Humor!

This is a place where you can post jokes, memes, humor, etc. related to programming!

For sharing awful code theres also Programming Horror.

Rules

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Malix@sopuli.xyz 39 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging

tldr; basically you explain your buggy code to the duck, and when you explain it, you suddenly realize what the issue is.

any inanimate or even imaginary object works, but rubber duck is the classic option.

[–] gnutrino@programming.dev 21 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

I find my dog works well too, she's a great listener.

[–] Malix@sopuli.xyz 15 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 6 points 11 hours ago

Best little bugger

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 3 points 10 hours ago

I call it the Labrador method.