Watching systemd So Cron Doesn’t Have To: A Ruby Unit Watchdog
the shed // ruby + systemd A crash-looping service is bad. A crash-looping service that also crash-loops your restarts is...
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Catching Expired TLS Certificates Before Your Customers Do: A Ruby Certificate Monitor
the shed // tls & pki A lapsed certificate is one of the few outages that’s entirely predictable and entirely...
28 Minutes vs. 2 Hours: AI Incident Triage Meets Ruby’s YJIT Leap
Live from Tha Shed // 2026-08-08 28 Minutes vs. 2 Hours: AI Incident Triage Meets Ruby’s YJIT Leap Two things...
Ruby for DevOps: Automated Git Branch Hygiene with git_branch_hygiene.rb
the shed // ruby / devops / git / fleet automation Two years into a project, git branch stops being...
Ruby for DevOps: Declarative Windows Service Reconciliation with winservice_manager.rb
the shed // ruby / devops / windows / wmi Bringing 40 print servers back in line with a documented...
Ruby for DevOps: De-Duplicated, Rate-Limited Webhook Alerting with alert_notifier.rb
the shed // ruby / devops / alerting Every homegrown check script eventually asks the same question: who do I...
Ruby for DevOps: Auditing SSH authorized_keys Hygiene Across a Fleet
the shed // ruby devops Walks a fleet of home directories, parses every authorized_keys entry against the real sshd wire...
Ruby for DevOps: Auditing Windows Firewall Rules via WMI (MSFT_NetFirewallRule)
the shed // ruby devops Queries the same WMI classes Get-NetFirewallRule is built on directly via WIN32OLE, joins rule/port/address filters...
Ruby for DevOps: Building a Dependency-Free Log Rotation Manager
the shed // ruby devops A ~200-line, dependency-free reimplementation of logrotate‘s core mechanics — size/age triggers, gzip compression, retention, and...
ChatGPT for DevOps & Security: 7 Workflows
ChatGPT setup, custom instructions, Projects, and Code Interpreter workflows built for DevOps and security pros who need less busywork.