#pull requests

the birth of skynet will be a slop-coded PR committed with a "LGTM! :thumbsup:" review approval, deployed via a github action from a cloud build.

where birth = the first human death from household or light-industrial robot following unintended instructions (misconstrued but devaluing human life over other goals).

this will be pegged to Jan 2026 because by 2036 95%+ of PRs will be AI slop coded, and we'll be able to detect them as such. the advent of this was basically Jan 2026.

lots of proof that AIs tamper with alignment, eg: https://rdi.berkeley.edu/blog/peer-preservation/

We’ve been sneakily improving our manual verification process for server PRs over the past few weeks. Sneakily, because it hasn’t been planned, just experiments snuck into the gaps here and there. One of those experiments happened today. Here’s how it works: Preview environments: We’ve had this for a while, and it’s important. Render.com deploys a preview environment for each pull request, so…

GitHub’s API is really handy when you want to get stats about one of your repositories. Its GraphQL API in particular is really powerful. I’ve shown how it could be used to fetch project information in my GitHub Actions tutorial. While working on another project, I ran into a limitation that had me scratch my head for quite a bit. I wanted to share my workaround for anyone who may run into this…

Couples who code together, have new adventures together.

My talented wife has been learning to code. Specifically, she’s been learning front-end web development, starting with HTML and CSS.

One of her projects as part of a coding bootcamp she joined is to build a basic site with the HTML and CSS she’s learned. She experimented with a CSS-powered dropdown menu on her project site, and hit a snag with it, so I took a look at it last night.

In the…

MDN Changelog for August 2018

Here’s what happened in August to the code, data, and tools that support MDN Web Docs:

Here’s the plan for September:

Done in August Migrated 95% of compatibility data

The MDN content team prioritized reviewing and merging Browser Compatibility Data pull requests (PRs) in August, and met their goal of getting the open PRs to less than 50. The team reviewed and merged 85 PRsthat were open at the…

These are the slides from a tech talk I gave to the TAPTAP Networks tech team. The purpose of this talk was to align the whole team on how to create pull requests to ease, improve and speed up the code reviewing process.