Corporate parables, tech industry satire, and sharp commentary on the humans behind the code.
Episode 3 of Human Code. Draco runbookensis answers your Slack question in four minutes at midnight and has never finished a runbook in its life. The most valuable animal in the building — and the most dangerous Confluence page. Bus factor: one.
Episode 2 of Human Code. Architectus theatralis builds monuments nobody asked for — four services, two queues, a standing ovation — then migrates before the maintenance bill arrives. The team inherits the peacock. The stairs stay with you.
Episode 1 of Human Code, a field guide to the corporate predator. Meet Ignis salvator: the engineer who is always first on the scene of every incident — for reasons the post-mortem never asks about. Hero syndrome, observed in its natural habitat.
A dentist software company buys four observability platforms in 72 hours, builds 147 dashboards nobody opens, and spends $487K watching nothing. A mockumentary based on real industry data from Splunk, PagerDuty, and New Relic.
Four million developers short. Response: hire 50% fewer juniors. This is the tech industry's self-inflicted famine—a trillion-dollar sector that burned its talent pipeline and now stands confused in the ashes, asking where all the seniors went.
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.
