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Aside from “learning to spell hypnotized or just trusting your phone knows better than you,” there are a bunch of tricks we use.

Staring at it and going over the code path
Talking to a proverbial duck
Going out for a proverbial cheeseburger
Sleeping on it

Half of these tricks force the brain to stop confirming and start seeing, which is our biggest error source. The rest of these tricks let the problem ruminate in our subconscious which is sometimes really good at solving shit.

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qprimed@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
1, 3 and 4 (in that exact order) have almost always gotten things moving again. rubber ducling it just feels “forced” to me.

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- GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  You can just talk to one of your more inept coworkers.
  
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- Alexstarfire@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I talk to myself almost constantly, even when not programming. Rubber ducking is second nature to me now. Though, IDK which came first.
  
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tooclose104@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Haven’t heard of the proverbial cheeseburger… gonna stare at this phrase for a bit.

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- psud@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  If you don’t get it, go for a proverbial cheeseburger
  
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  - tooclose104@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I dunno, I don’t like unnecessarily interacting with strangers. I’m gonna go sit in another room and tinker with something else for now.
    
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