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Good technical writing conveys not just knowledge, but perspective. This is where I think and write.

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kalan@fukuoka:~$ whoami
// Good technical writing conveys not just knowledge, but perspective.
// This is where I think and write.
export default {
name: "Kalan",
role: "Software Engineer & Writer",
location: "Fukuoka, Japan",
posts: 262,
experience: "11 years",
languages: ["zh", "en", "ja"],
links: ["日名遊實", "日語八百屋", "八百屋 Boys"],
status: "Open to collaboration",
}
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Dev Note

When Measurement Becomes the Goal: From Window Tax to PR Counts

I once wrote a small tool to count how many PRs I had contributed in a quarter, how many reviews I had left, and how many tickets I had closed, hoping to use the numbers to prove my output to my manager. My manager simply said performance is not judged by output alone. Only years later did I understand—when measurement becomes the goal, it is no longer a good measure. From Britain’s window tax and the Hanoi rat bounty to evaluating developers by PR count today, the mechanism is exactly the same.