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IT Dictionary
A survival manual for devs, dreamers, and those still pretending their job has structure.
IT Dictionary is a survival manual for anyone stuck in modern tech — a place where buzzwords outlive products and every meeting is a ritual sacrifice of sanity. It’s two decades of engineering reality distilled into sarcasm, therapy, and uncomfortable accuracy. Basically: all the things everyone thinks but nobody bothered to write down… until now. If you’ve ever screamed internally on a Zoom call, this book has your back.
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The Fuckup Almanac
Fuckup Almanac is a guided tour of humanity’s finest screwups: outages, crashes, engineering disasters, and institutional failures — used to dissect how complex systems actually break. These stories aren’t cautionary tales. They’re post-mortems. Each case peels back layers of technology, process, and human behavior to show why failures are rarely accidental and almost never isolated. From code to concrete, the series traces a single idea: complexity grows faster than understanding — and systems collapse long before anyone notices.
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Vol 2: Stuff We Built on Top
Algorithms, automation, and “free” software gone feral — a guide to how we built systems that fail faster, louder, and at unprecedented scale.
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Vol 3: Hard Engineering & Physics
Explosions, collapsing bridges, and engineering failures so wild even Hollywood would call them implausible.
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Vol 4: Human Factor & Hubris
Ego, shortcuts, and organizations collapsing exactly as designed — because sometimes the bug isn't in the design, it's in the org chart.
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