Everything Worked Exactly As Designed. That Was the Problem. A €370 million rocket destroyed by a single reused piece of proven code. £440 million wiped from a market in 45 minutes by a rounding error. Facebook disappearing from the internet for six hours — not hacked, not overloaded, just forgotten by its own routing protocol. Four years of Toy Story 2 animation deleted by a single wrong command — from the primary drive and every backup simultaneously.
These were not accidents. They were systems doing exactly what they were built to do. The failures were in the assumptions, the trust, and the architecture nobody questioned until it was too late.
Fuckup Almanac Vol 1 is a documented investigation into 96 real-world technology disasters told with wit, sourced with rigour, and explained so that anyone can understand what actually went wrong.
What makes this different from every other tech failure book: 96 real-world cases — from rockets to cloud outages, from database corruption to grid collapse 500+ verified, archived sources with a free public bibliography 27 concept explainers that make BGP, floating-point, and redundancy failures readable without a computer science degree One narrative voice — no jargon walls, no sanitised post-mortems, no mythology Written for four audiences: engineers who want failure analysis that goes to the mechanism, not the blame — leaders who’ve been told a disaster was ‘human error’ and know that’s not an explanation — students who want to understand how systems actually fail before the textbooks — and curious minds who’ve seen the outage headlines and wondered what really happened.
“A witty chronicle of spectacular failures.” — Kirkus Indie “With sly wit and powerhouse knowledge, Adam Korga helps readers laugh their way through the breakdowns of the digital world.” — Independent Book Review
Volume I of a four-volume investigation. Now also publishing in German — September 2026.
If you’ve ever wondered why the digital world keeps breaking — this is where the answers actually are.
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