#rubberducking
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #rubberducking from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #rubberducking
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Day-by-day usage
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-18 17:07 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
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measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-10-18 17:07 UTCLive pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-18 17:07 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~28907 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 11:00
Languages: English (29) · German (9) · Czech (1)
Avg boosts / post: 0.9
Top of the latest posts
Watson: "You have formed a theory, then?" Holmes: "I at least have a grip of the essential facts of the case. I shall enumerate them to you, for nothing clears up a case as much as stating it to another person, ..." The Memoirs of Sherlock
AI and cognitive decline I've got an hypothesis about AI and cognition: for the vast majority of people it will cause a cognitive decline, but for a peculiar circle the opposite might be very true. It comes down to whether you read the mode
Another example of #rubberducking in the wild. This is from "Arctic Chill" by Arnaldur Indriðason. Erlendur, a detective, is visiting his terminally ill old boss and mentor in hospital. > Erlendur began to report the progress of the investi
What “rubberducking” means
WikipediaRubber duck debugging is a debugging technique in software engineering, wherein a programmer explains their code, step by step, in natural language—either aloud or in writing—to reveal mistakes and misunderstandings.
“Rubber duck debugging” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#rubberducking across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #rubberducking straight to each platform’s own tag page. Where a platform publishes open data we measure it above; the rest lock their numbers behind paid APIs, so we link rather than guess.
Every number above is measured from a named public API at the shown fetch time. Nothing is estimated or extrapolated. Platforms that lock their data behind paid APIs are not shown. Agents: the same numbers, as JSON, at /api/hashtags/rubberducking