A dictionary of modern lifeOriginal definitions · Illustrated satire
Lucifer’s Lexicon

Modern life, properly defined.

From the dictionary

ERROR BUDGET

n.The approved quantity of failure.

A hand-drawn satirical comic showing Lucifer weighing broken servers as coins under an error-budget sign while an executive stamps an alarming production failure as approved.
The illustrated dictionary ERROR BUDGET
A connected train of thought

  1. Incidents & Operations

    POST-MORTEM n.

    A meeting at which the dead are questioned about their failure to prevent the murder.

  2. Cloud & Infrastructure

    FINOPS n.

    The ceremony by which a company gives its cloud waste a dashboard, a cost centre and an owner, thereby making it respectable.

  3. Agile & Delivery

    VELOCITY n.

    A number derived from the past and employed to disappoint the future.