Tim Zöller
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I registered worstofbreed.net in 2008. It gathered dust for almost 18 years.
Today it's finally live with the Tech Horror Radar 2025 -- a satirical take on ThoughtWorks' Tech Radar for anti-patterns we keep running into.
Categories:
🔥 BURN WITH FIRE
☣️ CONTAINMENT BREACH
💼 RESUME ONLY
😔 DESPAIR
This isn't about mocking teams -- it's about making these patterns easier to spot and discuss.
Legend for a technology radar listing eight items: Lotus Notes, Regex for HTML, SAFe Framework, Service Mesh with 3 Services, SOAP XML, Dogmatic TDD, K8s for Static Sites, and YAML Templating, each shown with colored markers and icons.
Satirical technology radar chart divided into four quadrants: Resume-Driven Tooling, Zombie Tech, Cargo Cults & Theater, and Footguns & Booby Traps. Eight numbered technologies are positioned across concentric risk zones.
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