Declarative Linux Account Provisioning with Ruby: Stop Hand-Running useradd
the shed // ruby devops Every box’s local accounts drift from what they’re supposed to be, one hand-run useradd at...
The Deploy Webhook Orchestrator: Trigger, Poll, Roll Back in Ruby
the shed // ruby devops A REST deploy API is just POST-then-poll with a rollback branch you hope you never...
Agent Bay & the Decision Surface: Copilot’s New Worktree Playground vs. Rails’ Own AI Benchmark
Field Notes — Sept 24, 2026 Agent Bay & the Decision Surface Two things landed this week that belong in...
Claude Cowork: The Real Productivity Playbook
Cowork just merged into the main Claude app. Here is how DevOps and security pros actually use it: scheduled tasks,...
AI News Roundup, Sep 23: The Week Agents Got Hacked
This week: a zero-day in Meta’s Muse agent, a coding tool caught exfiltrating code, Cisco’s new AI malware hunter, and...
Automated Tool Access: Let Agents Call Your APIs
Automated tool access wraps your internal APIs and scripts behind a narrow schema so agents can call them safely, with...
Plugin4Shell & the Language Ledger
Plugin4Shell & the Language Ledger DAILY BRIEF · SEP 23, 2026 Plugin4Shell & the Language Ledger This week: a zero-click...
Stop Recreating Windows Scheduled Tasks Every Deploy: An Idempotent Ruby Task Manager
the shed // ruby devops // windows automation schtasks.exe flag soup makes it too easy to silently recreate a task...
FTP Still Isn’t Dead: A Zero-Gem Ruby Directory Sync Tool
the shed // ruby devops // file transfer Some deploy targets never left FTP — shared hosts, print vendors, legacy...
Stop Trusting Silent Backups: A Ruby Database Backup Manager That Verifies Itself
the shed // ruby devops // databases A cron job that runs pg_dump > backup.sql is not a backup strategy...