I’m not alone in this tendency, of course. In the geek world, this is known as “yak shaving“. The phrase comes obliquely from a Ren and Stimpy episode, and refers to common phenomenon where ...

Performing a somewhat trivial or meaningless task. Programmers may have to "shave a yak" along with coding, which is what they love to do. For example, creating test data for a new application may ...