A lot of my infra workflows live in Slack threads, docs, or buried in shell history. That sucked.
I've been building Atuin Desktop. Local-first, CRDT-powered, executable runbooks - with integrated terminals, sql queries + monitoring
blog.atuin.sh/atuin-deskto...
Lmk if you have any questions <3
I've been building Atuin Desktop. Local-first, CRDT-powered, executable runbooks - with integrated terminals, sql queries + monitoring
blog.atuin.sh/atuin-deskto...
Lmk if you have any questions <3
April 22, 2025 at 4:56 PM
A lot of my infra workflows live in Slack threads, docs, or buried in shell history. That sucked.
I've been building Atuin Desktop. Local-first, CRDT-powered, executable runbooks - with integrated terminals, sql queries + monitoring
blog.atuin.sh/atuin-deskto...
Lmk if you have any questions <3
I've been building Atuin Desktop. Local-first, CRDT-powered, executable runbooks - with integrated terminals, sql queries + monitoring
blog.atuin.sh/atuin-deskto...
Lmk if you have any questions <3
Reminds me of more runbooks than I care to admit.
It has snowed in Chicago and YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS! Time to remind everyone that we light our train tracks on fire to prevent the switches from freezing.
November 22, 2024 at 2:55 AM
Reminds me of more runbooks than I care to admit.
Finally sharing what I’ve been building for almost a year now! 🐢✨
Atuin Desktop: runbooks that run
It’s open source and in open beta now 🥰
Built for engineers who need repeatable, reliable workflows. No more copy-pasting from slack or outdated docs
Atuin Desktop: runbooks that run
It’s open source and in open beta now 🥰
Built for engineers who need repeatable, reliable workflows. No more copy-pasting from slack or outdated docs
September 30, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Finally sharing what I’ve been building for almost a year now! 🐢✨
Atuin Desktop: runbooks that run
It’s open source and in open beta now 🥰
Built for engineers who need repeatable, reliable workflows. No more copy-pasting from slack or outdated docs
Atuin Desktop: runbooks that run
It’s open source and in open beta now 🥰
Built for engineers who need repeatable, reliable workflows. No more copy-pasting from slack or outdated docs
Atuin Desktop just got a brand new runtime!
Runbooks are now
- reproducible (context flows down, no global state)
- persistent (state survives restarts)
- executable anywhere (CI, remote machines, anything)
This is the first step towards making runbooks an actual automation primitive
Runbooks are now
- reproducible (context flows down, no global state)
- persistent (state survives restarts)
- executable anywhere (CI, remote machines, anything)
This is the first step towards making runbooks an actual automation primitive
Introducing the New Runbook Execution Engine
We're excited to announce a major architectural improvement to Atuin Desktop: a completely redesigned runbook execution engine.
blog.atuin.sh
November 24, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Atuin Desktop just got a brand new runtime!
Runbooks are now
- reproducible (context flows down, no global state)
- persistent (state survives restarts)
- executable anywhere (CI, remote machines, anything)
This is the first step towards making runbooks an actual automation primitive
Runbooks are now
- reproducible (context flows down, no global state)
- persistent (state survives restarts)
- executable anywhere (CI, remote machines, anything)
This is the first step towards making runbooks an actual automation primitive
lots has shipped this week for Atuin Desktop! 🐢
✨ ai assistant for authoring + editing runbooks
💅 pretty new sidebar
⚙️ compose your workflows with sub-runbooks
🛜 better SSH config support
✨ ai assistant for authoring + editing runbooks
💅 pretty new sidebar
⚙️ compose your workflows with sub-runbooks
🛜 better SSH config support
January 16, 2026 at 12:12 AM
lots has shipped this week for Atuin Desktop! 🐢
✨ ai assistant for authoring + editing runbooks
💅 pretty new sidebar
⚙️ compose your workflows with sub-runbooks
🛜 better SSH config support
✨ ai assistant for authoring + editing runbooks
💅 pretty new sidebar
⚙️ compose your workflows with sub-runbooks
🛜 better SSH config support
Runbooks are *resources*. They're useful to help perform operational tasks and solve operational problems, but they won't solve the problems for you.
josvisser.substack.com/p/the-loneli...
josvisser.substack.com/p/the-loneli...
The loneliness of the long distance runbook
Runbooks are programs for execution engines of highly variable quality...
josvisser.substack.com
December 15, 2024 at 8:42 PM
Runbooks are *resources*. They're useful to help perform operational tasks and solve operational problems, but they won't solve the problems for you.
josvisser.substack.com/p/the-loneli...
josvisser.substack.com/p/the-loneli...
Incident Response Runbooks: 17-Minute Proof, Notion vs Opsgenie vs xMatters — https://dotinc.app/blog/incident-response-runbooks-17-minute-proof-notion-vs-opsgenie-vs-xmatters.php
September 27, 2026 at 12:14 AM
Incident Response Runbooks: 17-Minute Proof, Notion vs Opsgenie vs xMatters — https://dotinc.app/blog/incident-response-runbooks-17-minute-proof-notion-vs-opsgenie-vs-xmatters.php
A few fun ideas on how to organize, implement, and archive your microconference.
Runbooks for Microconferences
A few fun ideas on how to organize, implement, and archive your microconference.
www.argmin.net
August 21, 2026 at 2:45 PM
A few fun ideas on how to organize, implement, and archive your microconference.
Spent a while working on runbooks today, which I now think of as "prompting for humans"
July 31, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Spent a while working on runbooks today, which I now think of as "prompting for humans"
We have an app that basically houses the encyclopedia of our company(runbooks, who owns what, etc) and it uses an agent to interface with slack adding context/answers to questions, especially repetitive common ones. It absolutely rules. This stuff is being used everywhere.
February 18, 2026 at 12:59 AM
We have an app that basically houses the encyclopedia of our company(runbooks, who owns what, etc) and it uses an agent to interface with slack adding context/answers to questions, especially repetitive common ones. It absolutely rules. This stuff is being used everywhere.
Prompts were runbooks and they never worked
July 13, 2026 at 7:41 PM
Prompts were runbooks and they never worked
Sysadmins and runbook authors, what are your favorite conventions these days for a "lean ops" approach to maintaining and writing runbooks? What conventions do you HATE?
May 28, 2026 at 6:19 PM
Sysadmins and runbook authors, what are your favorite conventions these days for a "lean ops" approach to maintaining and writing runbooks? What conventions do you HATE?
Atuin annonce l’ouverture d'Atuin Desktop, un outil qui transforme la documentation technique en runbooks exécutables.
👉 blog.atuin.sh/atuin-...
👉 blog.atuin.sh/atuin-...
October 1, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Atuin annonce l’ouverture d'Atuin Desktop, un outil qui transforme la documentation technique en runbooks exécutables.
👉 blog.atuin.sh/atuin-...
👉 blog.atuin.sh/atuin-...
they're called devops and you stare at datadog graphs all day occasionally executing runbooks
we need to address the end of good-paying jobs for melancholics, like lighthouse keeper or fire tower watchers
March 11, 2026 at 5:01 AM
they're called devops and you stare at datadog graphs all day occasionally executing runbooks
Everyone has an #ExchangeOnline #PowerShell script to run. Why not run the job safely and securely in Azure Automation? Here's a primer to help you understand the ins and outs of this aspect of #Microsoft365 automation...
office365itpros.com/2025/02/10/a...
office365itpros.com/2025/02/10/a...
Primer: Creating Azure Automation Exchange Online Runbooks
In this primer, we cover the topic of creating and running Azure Automation Exchange Online runbooks (scripts). Some setup is necessary before any code can run.
office365itpros.com
February 10, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Everyone has an #ExchangeOnline #PowerShell script to run. Why not run the job safely and securely in Azure Automation? Here's a primer to help you understand the ins and outs of this aspect of #Microsoft365 automation...
office365itpros.com/2025/02/10/a...
office365itpros.com/2025/02/10/a...
Oh hell yes! Atuin Desktop is finally open source!
Imagine Jupyter Notebooks, but for *any shell*.
The possibilities are so exciting.
Imagine Jupyter Notebooks, but for *any shell*.
The possibilities are so exciting.
GitHub - atuinsh/desktop: 📖 Runbooks that run
📖 Runbooks that run . Contribute to atuinsh/desktop development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
September 30, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Oh hell yes! Atuin Desktop is finally open source!
Imagine Jupyter Notebooks, but for *any shell*.
The possibilities are so exciting.
Imagine Jupyter Notebooks, but for *any shell*.
The possibilities are so exciting.
There is value in automating diagnosis, invoking runbooks, collecting incident data, etc.
It's just barely scratching the surface of what we as SREs do. If you look at the SRE book, maybe 2 chapters are dedicated to firefighting, there's the whole rest of the goddamn book and rest of the owl ;)
It's just barely scratching the surface of what we as SREs do. If you look at the SRE book, maybe 2 chapters are dedicated to firefighting, there's the whole rest of the goddamn book and rest of the owl ;)
July 21, 2025 at 6:52 AM
There is value in automating diagnosis, invoking runbooks, collecting incident data, etc.
It's just barely scratching the surface of what we as SREs do. If you look at the SRE book, maybe 2 chapters are dedicated to firefighting, there's the whole rest of the goddamn book and rest of the owl ;)
It's just barely scratching the surface of what we as SREs do. If you look at the SRE book, maybe 2 chapters are dedicated to firefighting, there's the whole rest of the goddamn book and rest of the owl ;)
We've also opened up a repo for sharing issues and feedback - once the beta opens up, the code will be here too
github.com/atuinsh/desk...
github.com/atuinsh/desk...
GitHub - atuinsh/desktop: 📖 Runbooks that run - code coming soon
📖 Runbooks that run - code coming soon. Contribute to atuinsh/desktop development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
June 11, 2025 at 6:17 PM
We've also opened up a repo for sharing issues and feedback - once the beta opens up, the code will be here too
github.com/atuinsh/desk...
github.com/atuinsh/desk...
I said it before and it's even more true today than ever: runbooks are documentation for gaps in your automation and should be driven to zero by automating as many as possible and then some
September 17, 2026 at 6:14 PM
I said it before and it's even more true today than ever: runbooks are documentation for gaps in your automation and should be driven to zero by automating as many as possible and then some
Atuin Desktop lets you build collaborative, executable runbooks from your shell history. No more copy-pasting from an out-of-date wiki!
I also believe that gradual automation is the way ahead, and always starts wth documenting what needs to happen
I also believe that gradual automation is the way ahead, and always starts wth documenting what needs to happen
January 27, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Atuin Desktop lets you build collaborative, executable runbooks from your shell history. No more copy-pasting from an out-of-date wiki!
I also believe that gradual automation is the way ahead, and always starts wth documenting what needs to happen
I also believe that gradual automation is the way ahead, and always starts wth documenting what needs to happen
all I've done for the past 2 years is review alerts and update like, 3 runbooks lmao
September 24, 2025 at 12:26 AM
all I've done for the past 2 years is review alerts and update like, 3 runbooks lmao
Did you know you can connect a Livebook notebook to a running Phoenix app?
Apparently, many of us don't.
Useful for:
- internal tools
- runbooks
- and engineering support
Here's how you can do it. 👇
#ElixirLang
Apparently, many of us don't.
Useful for:
- internal tools
- runbooks
- and engineering support
Here's how you can do it. 👇
#ElixirLang
October 1, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Did you know you can connect a Livebook notebook to a running Phoenix app?
Apparently, many of us don't.
Useful for:
- internal tools
- runbooks
- and engineering support
Here's how you can do it. 👇
#ElixirLang
Apparently, many of us don't.
Useful for:
- internal tools
- runbooks
- and engineering support
Here's how you can do it. 👇
#ElixirLang
Ghostty and atuin.sh
Atuin - Shell History & Executable Runbooks
atuin.sh
January 8, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Ghostty and atuin.sh