#bikeshedding

Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net
2025-06-10

The problem with knowing what #Bikeshedding [1] and #PigeonChess [2] is, is that in your mind (or in my case in my paper notebook) you start to count how often they occur during a meeting and who is more prone to one or the other ;)

[1] thedecisionlab.com/biases/bike
[2] rationalwiki.org/wiki/Pigeon_c

2025-05-29

@brynet

Seems pretty reasonable, but I was confused by the choice of ENOTTY ("inappropriate ioctl for device") in the patch when EPERM, ENOENT, EACCES, or EINVAL feels more fitting to me. #bikeshedding

(FWIW, everywhere else in that patch uses ENOENT)

2025-05-15

@jplatte #rustlang #bikeshedding

I am pondering about which form I should use in crate documentation?

(play.rust-lang.org/?version=st)

What do you prefer?

/dev/aubergine0nasunasu@bsd.network
2025-01-23
just small circles 🕊smallcircles@social.coop
2025-01-22

#ReminderToSelf 🤔

#ScaledAgile is a useful *concept*. There is indeed such thing as 'vibrant scaled agile' in good organization structure plus culture. Something unique and tailored necessarily. And optimized, chiseled in better shape, maintained well.

Then there is #ScaledAgile the name. Here a sad story to tell. Whole flocks of developers adore #bikeshedding names and play #ideology #flamewars. Blind for the *essence* and rationale of the underlying concept, they reject it based on the name.

It's not #bikeshedding ... What's the term for the following?

"Should we do X or Y"
"X"
"X is not an option. We'll do Y"
("So why asking in the first place?")

:mastodon: Mike Amundsenmamund
2025-01-09

's obsession w/ renaming the Gulf of Mexico & annexing neighboring countries are instances of the "Law of triviality"

world issues are too complex so he focuses on trivial things upon which everyone can have an opinion.

b.mamund.com/4hc7tXT

In an act of great #bikeshedding, I present you with the latest addition to my #aerc config:

spinner = :),:P
spinner- interval = 400ms

2024-10-25

The “rest” operator, … for function parameters is probably one of the worst named things in JavaScript. The "this" is also high up there, but like, why didn't they go with the "gather" operator. “Gather" and “spread” is way more intuitive than “rest" and “spread”. #javascript #bikeshedding

Irritationshintergrund🍑threecoloured@skeptics.social
2024-09-30

Als #bikeshedding oder law of triviality, bezeichnet man nach C. Northcote Parkinson, 1957, das Phänomen, dass Menschen innerhalb einer Organisation trivialen Themen häufig eine unverhältnismäßig große Bedeutung beimessen.
#einTageinWort #props @NeunMalKlug en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of

2024-06-28
2024-06-14

There is just one Grade I listed bike shed in England. #TIL

Now, you might ask yourself, did #bikeshedding occur during construction of this shed?

Yes indeed....

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Cathe

Excerpt from Wikipedia page about St Catherine's College Bicycle Store:

Description
The bicycle shed is circular in design, built in yellow brick laid in a stretcher bond, and roofed.[14] The brick used, here and elsewhere, was the subject of considerable debate.
2024-05-23

@alexband I love the human output. Having not worked on DNS for some years I lost the ability to immediately recognize 172800 as 2 days however. So as a human I would not mind to see '2 days' or '48 hours'. #bikeshedding

2024-05-03

The feeling when 87.5% of the discussion under your contribution is about #bureaucracy : unreliable CI and insignificant #style #bikeshedding .

Congrats, the project has created a barrier to entry for anyone who hasn't been into it for years already.

Hint: give everyone a freaking #linter that satisfies your needs and let us move on to actual work, without having to redo the same stuff 8 times. Sheesh.

#opensource #coding #nitpicking #contributing

2024-04-02

Noch ein #Plenum wird das Problem garantiert lösen. #Basisdemokratie #BikeShedding

me·ta·phil, dermetaphil@chaos.social
2024-03-23

My bikeshed is 14", manufactured by #Lenovo and runs #ArchLinux. 😣

#bikeshedding

2024-02-21

I haven’t written anything on my blog for over 2 years, despite reading numerous other blogs each day. So I started by looking at my site.I started tweaking CSS and HTML about a week ago and I still haven't written a word. #bikeshedding

Hightail Entertainmenthightailentertainment
2024-02-16

Bike Shedding and Yak Shaving: The dynamic duo that might just trip you up on your filmmaking journey. In this post, we talk about what they are, and how indie filmmakers can steer clear of distractions to stay focused on their cinematic dreams.

👉 hightailentertainment.com/blog

A yak in a field with its tongue sticking out.
Third spruce tree on the lefttezoatlipoca@mas.to
2024-02-06

The very excellent @GraphicMatt is in chambers providing blow-by-blow coverage of #Toronto #City #council as usual.

They're arguing about bringing back #paper #printouts (which will cost $200k) to review reports and findings and minutes etc. because apparently some councillors can't use a tablet or a screen to access the digital records?.

#ForFucksSake. Pass the goddamned city budget, and we're wasting time on this? Fucking #bikeshedding (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_t)

mastodon.social/@GraphicMatt/1

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