Rubber duck debugging is not a gimmick. It works really well. I have a bunch of rubber ducks at my desk and I am happy to lend them to any of my colleagues (programmer or not) to help them out with whatever problem they have.
As for gimmicks I once hooked up a few zibee lights to our monitoring. People didn't like the near constant red light.
Recently I bought a Raspberry Pi 3 and hooked it up to an old monitor. And now we have a few radiator/uptime/status views rotating on it. I could have done the same with a Pi nano. But I couldn't find a complete kit which could be delivered the next day. Still, only 70 euros and a small bit of work for a "useful" overview screen.
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Rubber duck debugging is not a gimmick. It works really well. I have a bunch of rubber ducks at my desk and I am happy to lend them to any of my colleagues (programmer or not) to help them out with whatever problem they have.
As for gimmicks I once hooked up a few zibee lights to our monitoring. People didn't like the near constant red light.
Recently I bought a Raspberry Pi 3 and hooked it up to an old monitor. And now we have a few radiator/uptime/status views rotating on it. I could have done the same with a Pi nano. But I couldn't find a complete kit which could be delivered the next day. Still, only 70 euros and a small bit of work for a "useful" overview screen.