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I guess he's using a different meaning of 'dinky' to the one I'm used to. The dictionary says that there's a US meaning of dinky meaning 'inconsequential' which seems to make sense.

From the title I had assumed it was going to be about the UK meaning of 'small but particularly well formed', which I guess would also make a good article.

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"Dinky" basically means "trivial" to me (a Canadian.) Not quite inconsequential—it can do something useful—it just does something simple enough that a person with experience in the language wouldn't even book time to accomplish it.

There's a piece of GTD advice—any task that would take you three minutes or less, just do it right when you think of it instead of putting it in your to-do list. One might describe those as "dinky tasks."

I'm American (US) and I had no idea what the author meant by "dinky" either. I've never used or heard any one use "dinky" to mean "inconsequential". It has always meant "small" to me. I thought this was going to be saying something like "it's okay to make tiny libraries that do one thing."

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