The Spegling Chronicles: Measuring dev shadow work until it measured us back (medium.com)

Started as weekend project tracking abandoned git branches. Ended as philosophical investigation into what we actually build vs. what customers need. The Sven character is composite of 3 developers I've worked with across Spotify/F-Secure/startups.

Every absurd metric (almost) came from real observations, just amplified to satirical extremes.

Happy to discuss the real patterns behind the fiction.