There's no villain twirling a mustache in the corner. Just good people, doing reasonable things, wondering why the magic seems to have wandered off. A story about orchards, ducks, and the patterns that quietly shape our teams....
Somewhere in the grey waters of the Atlantic, a frigate cut through the swells under the command of an interim captain. A fable about imposter syndrome, institutional blindness, and why the ship always knows who her real captain is. Dedicated to everyone who was told they are "just temporary."...
A manager discovered AI and made it his answer to everything. $1.3 million, 47 database crashes, and 3,000 pages of useless docs later, only Janet from QA survived—saying exactly what she'd said since 2017....
A satirical sci-fi tale about a space station that tried to build a CI/CD pipeline in 30 days with no plan, wrong tools, and zero understanding of automation....
A gaming empire built on grandma's slot machine addiction decided to stop making games, spent billions buying creativity they'd later destroy, and fired thousands while executives kept their ocean-view palaces. This is corporate self-destruction so spectacular it deserves its own casino....
Think optimizing that loop made you a hero? Plot twist: your software might be melting glaciers. While we debated tabs vs. spaces, tech became a carbon colossus. Join this odyssey through green software engineering—where saving the planet matters as much as saving milliseconds....