Ask HN: How do you perform “Rubber duck debugging”?
In particular, what is your preferred method of performing this exercise.
"Rubber duck debugging"[0]
[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging
"Rubber duck debugging"[0]
[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging
And then she just gets in an endless loop of asking "Why?", until I can't explain 'why' any more.
It's at that point I've probably found my issue.
Added bonus. She's happy to sit there and blankly stare at me in confusion whilst I chat away. Good dog!
For personal projects, typing up an email to the appropriate google group, explaining the problem and requesting help, helps me solve a problem about 50% of the time.
For work projects, verbal diarrhea into Slack is very effective but interrupts colleagues too much (though it does have the side effect of pulling in help on the occasions you really need it). I've been considering building a bot for that.