The people who shape every software team. For better. Usually for worse.
Every team has them. The engineer who is always, heroically, first on the scene of fires he somehow never prevents. The architect whose brilliant systems only she can maintain. The dragon asleep on a hoard of runbooks. The magpie in your one-to-one. The colleague who collects your trust the way some people collect furniture — and the manager whose calendar is full and whose effect is none.
This 7-part series is a field guide to the corporate predator: a wildlife documentary of the open-plan office. Each episode names a species (the Latin is unnecessarily real), observes it in its natural habitat at one slightly cursed dental-software company, and teaches you to identify it in the wild — with field logs from Janet of QA, who has seen everything and clapped for none of it.
Status: A new episode every Wednesday.
The episodes
- 🔥 The Arsonist — Ignis salvator
- 🎭 The Performer — Architectus theatralis
- 🔐 The Gatekeeper — Draco runbookensis
- 🪤 The Borrower — Pica creditrix
- 🪞 The Collector — Fiducia disponibilis
- 👻 The Phantom — Praesentia vacua
- 🧫 The Habitat — the finale: the ecosystem that breeds them all
What to expect
Seven episodes, each standalone but richer together. Specimen plates, dated field logs, exhibits recovered from Confluence (one of them just says "TODO: add details"), and a finale that turns the camera around to ask which species your building is breeding. Darkly funny, psychologically honest, and uncomfortably recognisable. The Latin names are free. The self-recognition is the price. You've been warned.