Just ordered my rubber duck. It'll be here in 2 to 3 business days...

I heard you guys like rubber ducks. Here is a Tomato Duck.

A few days ago while browsing devRant, my girlfriend stopped me at this one post and asked why does this person have a rubber duck. I went on to explain her about Rubber Duck Debugging. She was totally amazed by the concept (she's not a techie). Today suddenly a package arrived at my door step from her.

Well now I have an entire family of rubber ducks to code with :D

Prototype devRant rubber duck. Depending on my craft skills, might have a variety of dev themed capes too

My rubber duck is not hatching from my rubber egg. I'm starting to worry :-S

I'm lacking a rubber duck at my office. I asked for one, but the company won't buy one. Instead they offered me a 1m x 1m sheet of bubble wrap, which they replace every day. Love my new place.

!rant
My wife just had our first child today. I guess I'll have to share my rubber duck from now on.

Who needs rubber duck debugging when you can do paper duck debugging?

Or is that concept too... Farfetch’d? 😎

Forgot rubber duck at home...
Had to improvise...

We're not a family of devs. So the situation may seem weird to them.

My sister saw me doing the rubber duck debugging and venting my programming frustration with an innocent little duck. Eye-to-eye. And now, she thinks i'm in need of serious help.

Not rubber but LEGO duck.

Found this hidden meowing duck on the Amazon's index html code

The one who stole this duck in China 2014 must have really big code issues.

That awkward moment when you tell your gf you want a rubber duck for your birthday present but you mistyped it.

Gf: "Sweetie, what gift do you want for your birthday?"
Me: "a rubber dick would be fantastic! it'll help me debug things"
Gf: "Ok... if you say so..."

I've found it. Ladies and gentlemen of devRant, I give you... Rubber duck heaven.

Ducky!

There seems to be a lot of love for devRant duck so here is what I imagine it to look like...

I kid you not, it's been impossible to find a rubber duck, so I had to make my own. Yes, his head is wonky, it's intentional, I wanted him to match me 😁

Alestorm had a huge rubber duck with them at Alcatraz metal festival yesterday. I love them even more now! 😂

The effect of too much rubber duck debugging.

Node duck reporting for debugging duty 😎🦆

If you ever lost your debugger duck, I think I know what happened to it...

My rubber duck 😍

My sister in law got me this guy for Christmas after I told her about devrant!

She found it in a rubber duck shop in Amsterdam.

Best sister in law!

The duck agrees on pointers

My lil girl has a habit of bringing me her rubber ducks whenever she sees me sitting down and just chilling. But this far she has (funny enough) done it twice whilst I am coding.

This time she got me super duck!!!

:) i love my lil girl

So yesterday I became an actual human rubber duck!

So I have a colleague in my team that for weird reasons is not allowed to work with the same thing as the other colleagues in the team is allowed to work with. So she´s kind of alone, working on another project, and that seems to suck really hard.

And this is how I became a human rubber duck. She asked me a couple of questions about a technology/language I´ve never touched before and I told her I never worked with that technology or language and know nothing. But she was eager to get me over to take a look at what she meant.

So I came over to her screen and she started to tell me everything about the project, the technology and the language. I soon realized she wasn´t only looking for help, she was probably feeling alone in the work she was doing and just needed someone to talk to. So I took my role as the human rubber duck and sat down to listen to everything even though I almost didn´t understand anything.

I think it actually helped her even though I did nothing.

Being a human rubber duck felt good!

Do you think devRant should give out customized rubber duckies for Rubber Duck Debugging?

Explained rubber duck debugging to my girlfriend and a week later she got me this little guy 🤓

When I got my first job, and saw my colleague talking to a duck..

devRant should add rubber duck to the store.

This is an actual duck that the city of toronto rented for a weekend, for no good reason.

My Duck told me to give back to the community 😎

that's what I call a rubber duck collection =)

When you rubber duck has had enough of your shit code

Pixel duck

When you tell your friend about rubber duck debugging

Made me a little debugging duck out of post-it while waiting for my program to finish testing

It would be really awesome if devRant would send us a rubber duck if our rant gets more than 1000++ 😝😝

Just realized my girlfriend uses me in place of a rubber duck for debugging.

!rant
Stackoverflow has come up with this great idea of "virtual rubber duck". I just tried it. And I must say that I'm really enjoying it right now!

I AM NOT A RUBBER DUCK
I AM NT A RUBBER DUCK
IAM NOT A RIBBER DUCK
I AM NOT A RUBER DUCK
I AM NOT A TUBBER DUCK
I AM NOT A TRUBBER DUCK
I AM NOT A TUBBER DUCK
I AM NOT A RUBBER DUCJK
I AM NOT A RUBBER DUCK

My wife is a teacher doing a technology course that includes basic coding for middle schoolers (11-13 year olds). While she admittedly would make a terrible developer, she just spent her own money on 30+ finger puppets so the kids could practice rubber duck debugging. Maybe something did rub off on her!

That moment when you find yourself seriously arguing with your rubber duck about which approach to implement...

Got a new duck for when I'm working on code smell

Oops! I just cooked my duck, so not really a rubber duck but I guess it works 🤔

Started with my Rubber Duck collection #love
:D

@dfox how about a Devrant themed Rubber Duck for the store? 😁

Who needs a rubber duck when you can have a rubber unicorn?! 🦄❤😍

Went to the Amsterdam Duck Store today!

Things I learned this week so far:

Programmers consider talking to a rubber duck a totally normal thing

My new duck is here. My duck is the best duck.

If bigger duck means fewer bugs, I definitely need this:

After a couple years as a developer I've learned that all those banking sites and cool online stores and apps are held together with old chewed gum, duck tape and that guys who has been in the office 48h straight and whose wife thinks he's dead.

@soolkiki The coffee wide eyes, fucked up hair and the rubber duck worship...

ERNIE'S A FUCKING DEVELOPER!!!

What the Duck is this ?

Why is there no devrant rubber duck available in the store???

What the duck is that!

I decided to go to a beach, sit on a rock and try to advance my side project. And look who decided to come and help me!

So you remember this Headless duck that found it's way into debugging? Well after a few more adventures of 3D printing, it evolved. Afew parts that never would have seen the daylight were added to his body.

Say hello to: Lt. Duckfix

Which duck should I buy

Stressful times, stressful measures!

everyone, meet my growing Duck army 😁

Joining the duck family with SpiderDuck. Let's see how my new companion will guide me through the learning of android app development this year.

My girlfriend made me this beautiful present - a Batman Rubber Duck - so nice !

When the code is so bad, that the debugging duck hangs itself.

Finally got my duck.
Props to devrant for the one day delivery.

Stack Overflow is my rubber duck. I can't tell you the number of times I've figured my problem when I'm typing in my question. Something about trying to find the best way to word the problem helps jumpstart my brain and so I can figure out the solution.

Rubber duck is cool, but Pusheen is better!

I'm always watching my bf face when he successfuly Rubber Duck Debugging. and he always singing and imitating duck sounds. and i wonder and ask him:
Me : "what is your imagination about that duck?"
@wowotek: "I believe vlad(the duck) is nice and have a soothing sound from deep in his heart"

yet i always imagine the duck i am talking to is always mumbling with that annoying Donald the duck Sound and says : "This gurl dumb, Quack"

Thank you so much for the goodies @dfox and @trogus

Now the duck can swear at me with it's high pitch noise when I am unproductive 😃

As one of the most important unspoken rules of devRant, I have to show my devSwag 😎
Yesterday I received my stickers and today my hoodie and devDuck :D
As the Linux Lover that I am, and Arch user, I shall name my duck Archie.
I'm super excited to use my hoodie tomorrow, I don't care if the weather says that we will be at 32°C.
Thanks @dfox @trogus

@dfox Thank you very very much for the duck. And biggest thanks goes to @olverine who actually bought the duck as a reward for solving his crypto challenge. Thank you guys

What the duck man? I need answers, not you popping your eyes over my bad code!

This duck is big enough to help me debug. And take my lunch money.

Oh man

My rubber duck would kill your rubber duck. Just saying...

Finally got my rubber duck. He's not too happy about my code. 😎

Thanks to DevRant I found out about Rubber Duck Debugging. Now I can stop bothering my peers 😂

this cool duck from my last skiing trip

This is my small duck :D

Duck Vader

Friend used me as a rubber duck;
I did listen, but answered just with:
"Quack quack!".

At my parents house for the holidays and I don't have my original "duck" so I had to get a new one. Handmade out of rubber and metal and looks damn awesome

- "no dad! this is my rubber duck. get your own" my daughter said.
okay.. she's 6 months old, so she can't really speak, but i could se it in her eyes.

Talking to myself regularly.

It made it really easy to communicate with my duck later on.

Me: *talking to my rubber duck*

Parents: "Who're you talking to?"

Me: "I'm calling my team"

Parents: *walks in*
Parents: "what the FUCK"

So for my senior night last night, all the seniors got gifts. I said that I wanted rubber ducks. I got all these ducks AND a FUCKING HUGE DUCK (currently deflated, I'll post a picture sometime).

These fuckers went all out and got me this many fucking ducks. I will never have a debugging issue again in my life

Forget talking to a duck, I talk to this cute little fox I got from one of our work weeks at Mozilla <3

I went to an hotel and they had a rubber duck in the shower

I just found out that I am my co-workers rubber duck...

I may not have a duck, but I do have this little guy that my fiancée made for me :)

Not exactly a rubber duck but he shows me the dark side of the Code

Duck, I am so, so sorry for things you're going to hear and see.
It will change you.

Time to start coding with my new duck

Q: I have been used as a Duck by a woman, what should I do?

> It's been more than 4 months she left my current company. She still uses me as a duck and to actually quote her here she suggests "no I used your confirmation to reach my conclusion". I need help.

Just found out devRant store sells rubber ducks.

Now I feel I must get some because I'm the real rubber duck.

Is he close enough to a duck to count?

Were I go duck goes 😎 quack, quack!

It would be awesome to have a devrant-themed ruber duck in the store

What do you guys think?

I am in rubber duck heaven

Rubber duck didn't understand code. So decided to use the expert for Android.

Meet Little Buggy.

P. S. I have 2 more, makes a complete family! 😀

Rubber Duck Debugging on a whole new level...

The pleasure of finding my long lost duck :')

Finally I got there. Amsterdam duck store. Thank you devranter who showed that here 😍

Paper Duck Debugging

My lecturer went out and bought us all rubber ducks to encourage our "rubber duck debugging". Honestly the highlight of my semester.

since people sharing their rubber duck debuggers, this is mine

So everyone is showing their Rubber Duck... Here's mine.

"One's never alone with a rubber duck." (from the Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy)

Most Developers use Ducks for Rubber Duck Debugging... I use Bobble-head Baymax 😎

Not a duck, but what do you think?

!rant

I received my duck with the santa hat yesterday 😍
Proudly placed in my desk

the yellow knight watching over linux looking for problems to fix and windows to remove

Why developers like yellow ducks only, what's wrong with white duck?

Is that what they call racism??

Bought my first rubber duck today. Named her recursion 😍😍😍

Say hi to our new rubber duck, guys!

Sitting in the computing lab with my lab partner and the debugging duck. Shortened for hilarity.

Partner: Urgh, there's something wrong with my python code.
Me: Hmm, let's see. Oh, by the way you look good in that shirt.
P: Okaaay, thanks... Are you hitting on me?
M: Seriously, James? IT'S BEEN 8 BLOODY MONTHS AND YOU'VE ONLY JUST NOTICED!?
P: Oh, I'm straight.
M: Oh, eh, so what's wrong with your program?

Trust me to make everything awkward. Not looking forward to tomorrow 🙄🤐

My not very rubber ducky rubber duck

I don't have a cool duck so i have to talk to myself like an idiot

I'm getting the sense that the devRant algo somehow thinks I love seeing rubber duck memes every 3 posts...

My duck reigns over hell =D

I heard a lot about ducks here on devrant so I decided to give them a try. I hope they work!

Got this cute girl from UKNaoHackathon. She is my new rubber duck

Thought I would share my "duck" with you guys.

A government policy for economic growth:
Locate a silicon valley
-> Place a rubber duck
-> build skyscrapers
-> faster debugging for everyone
-> silicon valley competitiveness
-> push GDP growth
-> place an even bigger rubber duck
-> ...

When u thinking about squeezing the life out of your stress duck and u see this

The only way to solve high dimensionality rapresentation problems in convolutive neural networks it's having an high dimentional duck

Developers created IDEs with intelligent code completion and languages provide users with an annotation syntax to document their methods.

And then there is Python, nuking all the efforts of our ancestors by dynamic typing. And they are smug enough to call this laziness duck typing. "If it squawks like a duck, swims like a duck, walks like a duck its a duck".
Shit no, it ain't a duck because a fucking goose does all the same but is a mean bastard compared to a duck. You might pet a duck but only the craziest will attempt to pet a goose.

Fuck python and undocumented methods in particular!

Just wanted to sharey duck with you.

Just found this 8GB rubber duck...

Got a new Duck :)

Not really rubber, but he's my duck.
He's literally one year younger than me so it makes it quite special.
I really like him 😄

So couple of days ago I've told you that I've made an Duck Hunt Easter Egg in one of my utilities. And @jiraTicket asked me:
"How on earth do you get a decent gameplay out of Duck Hunt without a Nintendo lightning gun?"

Well the answer is..:
Connecting Leap Motion and making them suffer..

P.s. It took me a loooong time to hit that duck with this controller=))))

My rubber duck debugging :-
Small problem talk to duckling
Big problem talk to the duck

What are you doing there duck?

Someone posted a rant referencing a story out of The Pragmatic Programmer about "duck debugging". I've leveled up with a duck.

Your code so bad even your rubber duck won't listen to that nonsense.

You know what they say, the bigger the duck, the faster the debug

When I get stuck I usually try a variant of the duck method. I find someone not involved the project and explain my problem to them. I always figure it out before I finish explaining

I think my duck is annoyed by the amount of obvious errors I asked it about today...

My duck is mad at me today for procrastinating too much 😔

Does this guy count as a rubber duck...?

LEGO duck riding a Falcon. Weird/cool.

Using my Kermit as the "duck" of rubber duck debugging. I always explain my code, line-by-line to my Kermit :D

When even the duck knows your code is shit...

Thirty hours over two weeks, but we finally patched a angular app that was originally built on 2 (alpha) to 4, reducing the load time ten fold.

Don't thank me, thank super duck. The duck with the power to debug any code.

Gawd I'm tired.

So, I was shopping with @terrus and we found this lost duck in the bakery shelf. We felt it was a call of fate... Obviously, we bought two of them 🦆🦆❤️

I prefer Tribble debugging over Rubber Duck debugging.

Serious question. Whats with all the rubber ducks?

So how many people actually understand the purpose of rubber duck debugging?

i present to you my new dev... duck... friend... rick... that's right... my brand new dev rick!

Duck partner for doctors 🦆🦆🦆

Is there an debugger duck AI?

Just an AI to chat while you debug

The taxi driver has Rubber Duck setting in front of him looking forward to the traffic... Another level of debugging...

I present to you the rubber duck I use for debugging.

that's right I dont have one. I just to talk to myself really. but what's curious is that when I do this, I tend to cock my head to a side, or turn slightly in my chair as if I was talking to someone just behind me. I didnt realize I was doing this until my cousin pointed it out to me coz it was creeping her out.

let me also mention that I used to have an imaginary friend growing up. his name's Jesse. I dont know if it really is just a weird mannerism or maybe I was still subconsciously talking to him.

You guys have dev duck.
I have dev snail 🐌

Stumbled across the Amsterdam duck store just by luck. I just had to get the engineer duck. Then I found him some chocolate friends for my younger brother who is an aspiring dev still in high school.

I think there is something wrong with my duck

Wife keeps stealing my rubber duck... So making my own with Raspberry Pi! Needs a name though...

!rant
I don't have a duck, but I got this toy buffalo during the Orientation Program at my university for correctly stating that the inventor of BitTorrent, Bram Cohen, had studied in the University at Buffalo.

That moment when your coworker is a better rubber duck than your rubber duck.

Thanks, Eaton! Another duck!

Well, no rubber duck for me but this guy is my partner since many years ago (since I've started my carrer).
Not even those prehistoric bugs last forever!

So here's my debug pal, the porcelain swan, cuz I haven't stumbled upon a rubber duck. I like my swan nevertheless

Who needs a rubber duck when you have Batman silently watching over your code 👀

Rubber duck you say, that's cute.

Created utility for installers..

Easter Egg:
Pressing Ctrl+Alt+D opens a new window with Duck Hunt game in it..

Did this about 6 month ago.. Used it today myself.. got stuck for an hour..

my rubber but not really rubber duck

Every coder needs a duck.

I dont use Duck for debugging, its ok right ?

Duck typing

If something quacks that does not mean it's a duck. A duck has wings, can fly and is renowned for eating bread. For all you know what you have is a tape player.

My rubber duck, Emmet. :-D

I'd like to share with you guys the fact that I had one of the greatest Christmases ever!
This includes having randomly received this debugging duck from someone that had no idea what it would mean to me, but also meeting people who brought 4 dogs to the family reunion (I am absolutely in love with dogs)

They came

I just found a duck paradise! 🦆

Im really bored and have no idea what to do.
This is my most retarded duck.

Our new "rubber duck".
Debugging got so much easier.

Today I had to explain to my sister why I want a rubber duck with a cloak for Christmas

Am I the only one here who doesn't use rubber duck for debugging ? Does it really help ?

Question:
Does Rubber Duck Debugging really help? Haven't tried it myself yet.

Doctor rubber duck debugging 😁

My friend made an addition to the dev rant duck. He's selling them for 10k upvotes

Forgot all about the swag store. I'm already a ++supporter but I've never ordered anything of the store. So today I've ordered a PHP duck, a separate linux cape and a stress ball (already got the free stickers).

Can't wait for them to arrive!

So... do you actually talk to a dev duck like you would to a normal person, or do you just imagine talking to it?

int day = 256;

Today I made coffee for the duck.

Got a rubber duck for christmas, and it reflects my personality perfectly. Some mean debugging ahead... *mwahahaa*

During the summer I was part of a three person brand new software team. One of my co-workers had a rubber duck, and explained rubber duck debugging. I brought in my own duck and it turned out to be identical to hers. On the last day I left my duck there with my other co-worker, so now they will both have ducks to talk to when nothing works! 🐤🚫🐛