@mitchwagner.com The idea of bikeshedding became popular in the open source community, which is where I encountered it.

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@mitchwagner.com Historian C. Northcote Parkinson noted the phenomenon in 1957. “The time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum [of money] involved,” Parkinson said.

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@mitchwagner.com It’s based on a hypothetical story about a local planning organization tasked with reviewing plans for a nuclear power plant. They are overwhelmed by the cost and engineering of this advanced technological project, and instead focus on details of the bike shed proposed for plant employees.

@JohnPhilpin Do you like Feedland? What is its value over other feed readers?

@karawynn I may look up a high-res version of the image.

I think what’s going on is that the man got himself in a perfect position to get on the bus first, and then the bus came and everybody was jostling and jabbing elbows and he got left behind. But like I said I’m not 100% sure.

@ffmike He may well be but does that mean RSS is flawed in ways that Atom or JSON correct?

@radleybalko.bsky.social Our neighbors across the street speak little or no English. I’m Jewish and see plenty of Christmas decorations go up around the neighborhood. We have Latino, Asian and Black neighbors. It’s fine. None of this causes us any problems at all. Dale is a dipshit.

@bss 34? Don’t exaggerate! It’s only been a couple of dozen…. :)

There are women on MIcro.blog but yes it has a gated community vibe.

@lisamelton I apologize for the confusion. I am still figuring out Mastodon again. The remaining post is the one to boost – and thank you. I got confused because there is an option to edit and another to delete and rewrite I should have edited but instead I picked the other 

@ffmike In business 60 years. I’d say he knew something about branding. And yes the extra E makes it all fancy and stuff.