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Backups and Updates and Dependencies and Resiliency
This post is going to be a bit of a meander. It starts with the description of a bug (and appropriate fix, in the hopes of helping a fellow unfortunate), continues on through a re-consideration of software engineering practice, and ends with a bit of pretentious terminological philosophy. Strap in, let’s go!
Automatic Merging
When working on my personal projects, I typically just push straight to main
- opening a PR just to approve it seems entirely pointless, as if I had been able to find any issues in my own work, I wouldn’t wait to do it in a PR! However, this does mean that, if I forget to run any quality checkers (linters, tests, etc.), I won’t find out about it until on: push
GitHub Action runs, and even then I might not see the failure until several commits later.