Format Web Page "In FreeBSD usage, a bikeshed is a simple topic on which nearly anyone can offer an opinion and often nearly everyone does." View Source Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 3: TOUCHGRASS Bike Shedding Source title Frequently Asked Questions About The FreeBSD Mailing Lists Source authors The FreeBSD Documentation Project Source year 2026 Confidence high Importance high
Format Book / Offline paper "Parkinson’s 1957 book presents the idea that time spent debating an issue can be inversely proportional to its objective importance." View Source Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 3: TOUCHGRASS Bike Shedding Source title Parkinson's Law, and Other Studies in Administration Source authors Cyril Northcote Parkinson Source year 1957 Confidence high Importance high
Format Online paper / PDF "Salient objects in the visual field tend to capture attention." View Source Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 3: TOUCHGRASS Bike Shedding Source title Salience is only briefly represented: Evidence from probe detection performance Source authors M. Donk; L. Soesman Source year 2010 Confidence high Importance high
Format Online paper / PDF "Salient features can attract selective attention and become more available to the perceiver." View Source Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 3: TOUCHGRASS Bike Shedding Source title Salience, attention, and attribution: Top of the head phenomena Source authors Shelley E. Taylor; Susan T. Fiske Source year 1978 Confidence high Importance high
Format Book / Offline paper "Machiavelli argued that innovators face enemies among those who benefit from the old order and only lukewarm defenders among those who may benefit from a new one." View Source Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 3: TOUCHGRASS First Misalignments Source title The Prince Source authors Niccolò Machiavelli Source year 1532 Confidence high Importance mid
Format Online paper / PDF "A silent software failure can leave functionality no longer working while the failure remains detectable only indirectly." View Source Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 3: TOUCHGRASS First Misalignments Source title Reliability Pillar - AWS Well-Architected Framework Source authors Amazon Web Services Source year 2024 Confidence high Importance mid
Format Web Page "A scanned PDF can contain only image data rather than searchable text." View Source Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 3: TOUCHGRASS First Misalignments Source title Recognize text in scanned documents Source authors Adobe Source year 2025 Confidence high Importance mid
Format Web Page "Derek Willis told Ars Technica that many PDFs are effectively pictures of information and require OCR to turn those pictures into usable data." View Source Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 3: TOUCHGRASS First Misalignments Source title Why extracting data from PDFs is still a nightmare for data experts Source authors Benj Edwards Source year 2025 Confidence high Importance high
Format Web Page "There often is no single person who knows the answer an engineer needs, and several people may hold different pieces of the required information." View Source Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 3: TOUCHGRASS First Misalignments Source title What's it like as a Senior Engineer at Google? Source authors Zain Rizvi Source year 2020 Confidence high Importance high
Format Web Page "Steve Yegge described working on an agent orchestrator and used the term “coding agent orchestrators” in his 2025 essay." View Source Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 3: TOUCHGRASS First Misalignments Source title Six New Tips for Better Coding With Agents Source authors Steve Yegge Source year 2025 Confidence high Importance low
