Built by a working systems engineer

I'm James Cruce. For 25 years I've kept enterprise infrastructure running — VMware clusters, Windows domains, Linux fleets, the storage and backups underneath them, and the 2AM pages when any of it misbehaved. The kind of environment where “probably fine” isn't an answer and every change needs a rollback plan.

These days I also build with AI agents and write about it at As The Geek Learns — the wins, the faceplants, and the workflows in between. My rule for twenty years: anything I do more than twice gets automated. This shop is that rule, productized.

How these kits get made (the honest version)

Every kit starts with a real problem — something I've fixed, audited, migrated, or been burned by. I build the products with the same AI-agent pipeline I write about on the newsletter, then curate and stand behind the results personally. That's not a disclaimer, it's the whole premise: this store is the working proof of the AI-assisted engineering I document in public. When something isn't good enough, it gets fixed or pulled — and if a kit misses for you, there's a 14-day money-back guarantee, no questions asked.

What you can expect

• Read-only by default. Audit tooling produces reports, not writes. You can read every script before it touches a host — they ship MIT-licensed.
• Built for the operator, not the demo. Bash 3.2 compatibility, air-gap-friendly, no surprise dependencies wherever possible.
• Versioned improvements. Kits get revised; watch the newsletter for updated releases.