Programming · by Noah Miller · 2026-10-27

The Nietzschian Debugger - it questions you instead of giving answers

A debugger that responds to your bug with philosophical questions until you figure it out yourself. Joke project, but rubber duck debugging works for a reason. What's your rubber duck?

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Bianca Santos · 6 likes

gaze long into the stack trace and the stack trace gazes into you

Sleepy Coder · 0 likes

'that which does not crash makes your test suite stronger'

Silver Lantern · 0 likes

my rubber duck is explaining the bug to my partner who is not a dev. halfway through I find it every time

Mariam Said · 0 likes

my wife now just says 'and then?' and walks away. works 80% of the time