The post is from a marketing blog where he writes a blogpost every day. Probably he had to park at a parking meter that day and it prompted him to use parking meters as his blogpost subject for that day, and he just made up some words about them.

OK so you are using the guy's own blog, where he brags about being a hall-of-fame guerilla marketer, as evidence that his own blog is one of the most-respected blogs out there.

It's also possible that I've been reading his stuff for many years, and seen it referenced from a lot of different venues.

I'm not a marketer. His take on things isn't that big a deal to me, but he has come up with a lot of really good insights, over the years.

People on HN have been posting his stuff for at least five years: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=seths.blog

I agree with the blooger in theory but you are correct...In practice it's never going to be an option. My wife works for a large city on the east coast. They spend outrageous amounts on (pre-built) solutions. Made me want to start building appraisal software and golf with city-managers when I found out the annual license fee's city governments shill out for these boring app's.