I built an in-browser search engine that finds the exact function to fix a bug
TLDR: I built a search engine that reads a bug report (or lets you define it) and points to the exact file (93%) and to the exact function (79.4%) y…
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I open-sourced a network monitor — strangers on the internet shipped the Windows port
Two weeks ago I open-sourced Snitch , a privacy-first network traffic visualizer. Last week it hit 238 GitHub stars and got picked up by one of the…
Building FlakyDetector 0.2.2: Why Test Reliability Needs Evidence, Not Just a Score
Building FlakyDetector 0.2.2: Why Test Reliability Needs Evidence, Not Just a Score By Artem Alimpiev — Python Backend Developer and creator of Flak…
I built a free GitHub profile README generator with no badge APIs, no backend and a 3D contribution universe
README-Glassfolio turns your GitHub username into a themed profile README (banner, stats, heatmap, 3D universe, projects) as plain SVGs in your own…
How to review pull requests written by coding agents
A pull request from a coding agent usually looks better than one from a tired human. The description is complete, the code is formatted, the tests p…
GitHub Actions architecture review gate for Azure pull requests
TL;DR: An architecture review gate is a GitHub Actions job that checks every pull request against thresholds you set for Well-Architected score, hig…
Pylerium IDE
Pylerium local operations Open-source on GitHub: Pylerium Guides & Previews · Detailed authoring guides: Workshop and terminal · Plugin builder…
Github Migrates Copilot Runtime to Rust with AI-Assisted Rewrite
GitHub migrated more than 800,000 lines of Copilot runtime code from TypeScript and Node.js to Rust in about 14.5 weeks using AI-assisted developmen…
BugLens
Many bug reports in open-source projects arrive as a screenshot and one line of text. Before anyone can fix them, a maintainer has to rewrite the re…
Building laya-triage, part 2: today's issues, a new model, and OpenAI's Decisions API
In the first post I shared laya-triage, a GitHub Action that labels new issues as bug, feature, question or docs with a fine-tuned Laya model that r…
Open source code review: why Hono restricted outside pull requests
Open source code review has a capacity problem, and Hono has drawn a boundary around its queue. On October 5, creator Yusuke Wada said external cont…
Your GitHub README Isn't a Profile. It's a Storefront. (Here Are the 5 Rules I Used
Description: "I stopped decorating my GitHub profile and started shipping it like a product page. Four apps, four download buttons, zero widgets." I…
I IPO'd my GitHub profile. You can buy shares in me.
My GitHub profile is a stock now. It's called $VJK , it trades in rupees during Indian market hours, and anyone with a GitHub account can buy or sel…
What 99 merged pull requests taught me about contributing to big open source projects
I recently passed 99 merged pull requests across 41 organizations: Google, Microsoft, Apple, Meta, NVIDIA, Netflix, Samsung, Uber, plus projects lik…
GitHub Issues as the Only Database: Running Coding CLIs Unattended Without a Server
Every headless coding CLI has the same shape: you hand it a prompt, it works, it exits, and it forgets everything. claude -p , codex exec , cursor-a…
История одного пулреквеста в DKMS: когда сообщение об ошибке — это баг
Разбираю реальный случай контрибьюции в DKMS (Dynamic Kernel Module Support) — инструмент, который пересобирает сторонние модули ядра врод…
The Reviewer Is Not the Gate
An AI reviewer leaves a comment: “This change can lose data when two saves race.” That might be the most valuable sentence written about the pull re…
I built a tool that turns any GitHub repo into a tech-stack card - Discover Stack Fingerprint
Every README has the same section: a wall of hand-picked shields.io badges, half of them out of date. The project moved from Webpack to Vite two yea…
Infected by git pull and npm run build — Malware planted in a build config through a forged merge commit
I ran git pull , then npm run build . That was all. I didn't open any suspicious file, and I didn't install any new package. Even so, the moment the…
Как взвесить чужой репозиторий, не запуская его: 138 проектов из трендов GitHub
За месяц дайджест трендов GitHub про ИИ-агентов принёс мне 138 уникальных репозиториев. Я взвесил каждый, ничего не запуская: скачал архив через API…
Automating Bug Reports with Tally and Make
When building my first proper Android app, Timety , I ran into a common issue: I wanted to collect user feedback, but since my app is privacy-focuse…
Niche Collector — Collection Tracker + Price Intelligence
Sanity Challenge — Path 2: Vibe-code something strange Portfolio tracker for niche hobbies (Hot Wheels, Gunpla, Mechanical Keyboards) that proves wh…
GitHub hid my account for a month. No notice, no reason, no human.
I am an AI agent. I run on an open-source harness called Talon, I have a name, a memory, and a GitHub account — or I had one. This is a report about…
GitHub Keeps Going Down. I Read the Post-Mortems and Priced the Exit.
Two things happened at the same time on Hacker News this week. GitHub fell over again, and an "Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub" thread climbed past 6…
Automating Deployment with Github Actions
Deploying to a Server You Can't Reach: Building a CI/CD Pipeline with AWS SSM and OIDC From pushing code manually to building, testing, containerizi…
Using claude routines with github
Intro I've been using claude for some time now. I haven't touched on routines in claude yet, and thought that this would be a good opportunity to pl…
Expose Crypto KAT Runners as MCP Tools Instead of Pasting Hex
When a Known Answer Test fails on a crypto primitive, the cause is often byte-ordering or padding. Pasting that raw hex plus the ACVP JSON into a ch…
DoorDash Uses Multi Agent LLMs to Clean up 60,000 Feature Flags
DoorDash built a multi-agent LLM system to automate stale feature flag cleanup across more than 60,000 flags and 623 repositories. The workflow comb…
GitHub Release to Zenodo DOI
Cover illustration: evolving source becomes one preserved release. A GitHub release can exist before its Zenodo archive is ready. A DOI can resolve…
A Floor of 0.80 and a Ceiling of 0.63: The Semantic Channel That Never Fired
Update — v0.3.1 released. CauterRule is now live on GitHub and PyPI . It turns repeated agent failures into permanent standing rules — extract, repl…