Bless a deploy
Say what’s shipping and the shrine reads the omens first: Friday, after 4 pm, Mercury retrograde. It never blocks a deploy.
Before the servers go down
A 30-second daily ritual for dev teams: bow at standup, bless deploys, pray together when prod goes down.
Down for 00:00
Hand the watch to
Nobody else is kneeling here. Send them the link, and hand it over when they come.
Today’s forecast
What it watches
Name the services you run and its lines will look at those. When a vigil names one, it points at it.
Clearing cache and karma…
A day at the shrine
Thirty seconds a day for the team to show up for prod, and a shrine to show for it.
09:30Standup
The first bow of the day feeds the kami and earns +5 karma. Bow every morning to keep your run.
11:00Deploy
Say what’s shipping and the shrine reads the omens. Shipped rings the bells; It broke opens a vigil.
18:00Handover
Pass the pager to whoever is next. A quiet watch of an hour or more pays the room +10.
19:00Forgot?
Turn on notifications: the shrine nudges you before your run breaks, and rings when something goes down.
02:13Rarely
Your alerts open a vigil. The team prays through it together, and when it’s back the credits roll.
MondayEvery week
Keepers this week starts over. Three bows from three people raise the shrine a level.
Rituals
Say what’s shipping and the shrine reads the omens first: Friday, after 4 pm, Mercury retrograde. It never blocks a deploy.
Every morning the kami reads your sky, from Clear skies to Typhoon watch, with a lucky hour and one thing to avoid.
An omikuji for engineers, from Great blessing to Great curse. One per person per vigil.
Write what happened and burn it. The words never leave your browser. Blameless, with a flame.
The shrine grows
Each level lays more mats. The best seats go to this week’s top karma; the pager holder gets the on-call stool.
Karma brings the carpenters, not the roof: three different people must bow within a day to raise it.
Skip days and it shows: dust, cobwebs, weeds, then a tanuki moves in. A shrine never shrinks.
Pick your cloud and its lantern lights up on the torii. Heroku’s free tier hangs there too, dark, with a cobweb.
Plus a weekly vow, seventeen charms to collect, and credits for everyone when the servers come back.
Made for the incident channel
Reads what these already send
Phones that asked get a notification either way.
TV pairing · live from the war room
Cast your shrine to the war-room TV with a six-letter code. Anyone who scans it kneels on the big screen.
The live demo plays on larger screens.
Kneel at this altar →Try it on this TV · live
Paired. is on the TV.
On a phone? Kneel at the demo, then open this page on a laptop to see yourself on the TV. Kneel at the demo →
Any shrine, any screen
The TV only watches, and stays paired for the next incident. Prefer a link? Add ?tv=1 to any shrine.
You opened this shrine in another tab. The kami counts knees, not tabs, and you only brought two.
One slip per vigil. The box is shaken, the stick is drawn, the paper is read.
The room earns each charm once, and keeps it.
TV pairing · getting a code
No laptop? Scan with your phone.
This screen only watches: it never counts as someone praying. It stays paired, so the next incident goes up the same way.
Casting