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1 About
This contains war stories from my journals that I have rewritten as satire in the style of The Icelandic Sagas (Íslendingasögur). I have changed the names and related terms.
2 TODO Rules checklist
Work in progress. The stories as well as strictly following these rules remain a WIP.
- No real names
- For obvious reasons.
- No technical terms
- Match the period.
- No contemporary dates
- All this happens in-universe around a millennium ago.
- Locale
- Using anglified terms.
See also my personal rules.
2.1 Potential rules
- Dual in addition to singular and plural.
- Find an in-universe way to describe the passage of time without using hours or minutes. Tag with TIMERULE for now.
3 Jargon
I will explain some of the terms.
- construction
- see farming
- drawing a weapon
- usually refers to someone cussing
- drought
- budget problems
- farming
- hardware or software development
- gold
- official praise from superiors
- hay and food
- see sapphires
- iron
- analogue technology
- killing
- firing someone
- quality
- usually refers to QA
- sapphires
- actual money
- silver
- fame, certifications, or academic milestones
- threats of violence
- usually related to losing one's job
- tools
- refers to any kind of tech tool from computers to text editors
- weapons
- see tools
4 List of original problems
All of these "controversial" problems contributed to the conflict inspiration for these stories.
- Whether to mount a desktop PCs vertically or horizontally.
- Whether to rebase, cherry-pick, or merge when using git.
- Actually using software to automate a task, eg cron.
- Writing software using language/framework FooScript is a bad idea, stop suggesting it.
- Not writing software using the very same language/framework FooScript is a bad idea, start using it now.
- Declining a meeting scheduled on a holiday or known vacation day.
- The meaning of the word "beta" whether it means non-post-delivery maintenance or not.
- Naming conventions in git repos need standardization, so name them after the hash they branched from.
5 Prologue
There came a messenger named Izaz ibn Fadlan who traveled from Baghdad. Izaz belonged to a small family. They had all studied history, farming, and engineering and learned how to learn and how to teach.