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Your thinking buddy.
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Explain your problem to a duck. Watch the answer appear somewhere around sentence three. Ponder ducks have solved more bugs than most senior engineers, and they've never once asked for a raise.
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Have you tried reading the error message?
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The method
A proven three-step process, patented by nobody.
1
Place duck on desk
Make eye contact. The duck is ready. The duck has always been ready.
2
Explain, line by line
Out loud. Slowly. Pretend the duck has never seen JavaScript. (It hasn't.)
3
Say “oh. OH.”
Realise it was a missing semicolon. Thank the duck. The duck accepts no credit.
Overheard by our ducks
Ducks hear everything. They tell no one. Except here.
“So the function returns undefined because… oh. Because I never return anything.”
“Okay duck, it works on my machine. Explain THAT. …No? Fine. It's the env file.”
“I bought the real duck by accident. We're both learning a lot.”
Stop talking to yourself.
Talk to a duck.
People will still think you're strange. But you'll ship.