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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 TIME_RULE 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.