Roger Steve Ruiz is a software engineer.

Writing about Automation.

I like to automate a lot of my work when I can, these posts highlight how to automate processes & tasks


8 posts
automation devex mac nix programming
19 Jan 2024 11 min read

Using launchd to keep up appearances

I’ve covered how to automate appearances in macOS before using the Defaults CLI to check for values in the user defaults system. While this works well, I’ll show you how you can use launchd to automate things while using Nix Darwin to manage the functionality without having to write any XML.

automation devex mac
23 Nov 2022 7 min read

Apple Interface Style & TUI

macOS-based Night mode supported scripting to update various configurations across different development environment tools including, Alacritty, Tmux, Neovim, Starship, and Bat.

automation cloud devex
21 Nov 2022 11 min read

Using the new Gandi provider

Manage your Gandi DNS records via Terraform with open source tools and free commercial products. Also, setup your repository for better documentation writing with Vale.

automation devex git
01 Oct 2021 4 min read

Check for changes on git pull

As projects grow, there are dependencies that fall outside of the project’s dependency graph. This means that there are some actions you need to perform on your code base when things change. Using the post-merge git-hook can help automate this for your team.

automation git
29 Apr 2021 7 min read

Clean Git house

Learn how to delete your local Git branches with a full breakdown of how to do it from manual to fully automated step-by-step.

automation linux
27 Apr 2021 3 min read

Iterating again and again

Let’s iterate across files using ls and grep to copy or move files from a parent directory into a bunch of sibling directories related to the file. We can do this in an automated way using the commands mentioned above.