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Wrong URL; it should be https://blue.bikeshed.com/ Or perhaps https://steelblue.bikeshed.com/ . (For those who haven't seen, the site accepts any CSS color as a subdomain.)
Wrong URL; it should be https://blue.bikeshed.com/ Or perhaps https://steelblue.bikeshed.com/ . (For those who haven't seen, the site accepts any CSS color as a subdomain.)
Reminds me of a story a friend related a long time ago about how to manage bosses. That probably applies to bike sheds. The general idea is to introduce a glaring mistake into any proposal you make. Then the boss (or whoever feels like bikeshedding) can "catch" that mistake upon which you congratulate them on their infinite wisdom, fix the mistake, and the project can move along. So to avoid the bikeshed color discus…
I've heard this called "A Duck" https://blog.codinghorror.com/new-programming-jargon/#:~:tex...
The color of that bike shed is distracting, though. Is it purple or pink?
Here is the thing. If you have a Convention Manual which calls for a certain color for bike sheds, then you use that. Failing that, if you have several other bike sheds of a certain color, then that's what you use, for consistency with existing bike sheds. The color of the bike shed only doesn't matter if it's the only bike shed, and there is no documentation which has already settled the matter.
The rule there is that it doesn't matter how many style guides you have or tools to auto-style your thing or whatnot people will still find something to nitpick and argue about. If the Convention Manual says all sheds shall be green they'll argue about what shade of green. If it says it should be Magellan Green they'll argue about whether it should be clear coated and what grit should be used to prepare the surface.…
Of course that can only work in a perfect world where spending millions of man hours compiling the ultimate bike shed style guide makes sense.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
The rule there is that it doesn't matter how many style guides you have or tools to auto-style your thing or whatnot people will still find something to nitpick and argue about. If the Convention Manual says all sheds shall be green they'll argue about what shade of green. If it says it should be Magellan Green they'll argue about whether it should be clear coated and what grit should be used to prepare the surface.…
And per Sayre's Law[1] the more inconsequential the decision, the more intense the argument will be. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayre%27s_law
:)