A coworker and I needed to get an ElasticSearch server up using chef, and the whole time we were complaining that we wished we could just use shell scripts.

So, we spent a friday and came up with http://fuckingshellscripts.org. At first it was just a parody, but then it started to get real after we found a lot of value in just using shell scripts for simple servers.

Granted, we now use ansible and it has been far easier to implement than chef!