chana_masala.sh: A Recipe as a Shell Script

Table of Contents Table of Contents The Source The Runbook Dependencies prepare_paste build_masala add_chickpeas serve Post-Incident Notes Every household has one dish that started as an accident and ended up in production. Ours arrived some years ago in a HelloFresh box - yes, the meal-kit subscription, our guilty pleasure phase - as an unassuming chickpea curry. We cooked it once, looked at each other, and knew this thing was not going back into the backlog. The subscription is long gone; the recipe survived the migration. It has been running in our kitchen on a roughly weekly release cadence ever since, patched and tuned along the way like any long-lived service: the spice list grew, the onion-garlic-ginger paste became a hard dependency, and whole spices got promoted from experiment to optional-but-recommended. At some point I did what I do with everything that runs regularly and must not fail: I wrote it down as a script. Not as a joke, or at least not only as a joke. The shell…