/tags/duck/ Recent content in Duck on Ctrl + Champagne Hugo en-us Sun, 06 Apr 2025 13:45:56 +0000 /posts/birds/ Sun, 06 Apr 2025 13:45:56 +0000 /posts/birds/ <h2 id="your-survival-guide-to-feathered-philosophies-in-software-development">Your survival guide to feathered philosophies in software development</h2> <h3 id="rubber-duck-debugging">Rubber Duck Debugging</h3> <p>Alright, we&rsquo;re starting easy and light for this one.</p> <p>It was popularised by the <em>Pragmatic Programmer</em> written by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas (an alumnus of Imperial College London). The idea is rather simple: instead of spending hours trying to debug something obscure, explain the code line-by-line to an inanimate object - a rubber duck named Chucky maybe? - to help you work out what the problem is.</p>