awesome-trending-repos: Tracking GitHub Trending Daily
How my open source tracker scrapes GitHub Trending every day, compares it with past snapshots and publishes a React dashboard to GitHub Pages with Actions.
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CLI-Anything Browser Harness: My First MCP Backend PR
How PR #118 added browser automation to CLI-Anything through the DOMShell MCP server: architecture, review, bugs found after merge, and a security fix.
Keploy Contribution: Go defer and HTTP Body Leaks
Two merged PRs to Keploy: a function that read from a closed file and HTTP response bodies that were never closed. What they taught me about defer in Go.
SDK and CLI PRs: Jules, NotebookLM, Mission Control
Four PRs to Jules SDK, notebooklm-py, cli-agent and Mission Control: two merged, two closed. The code, the design choices, and why each one ended as it did.
Security and API Fixes in Open Source: 3 Pull Requests
A Cypher injection in LightRAG, a wrong enum value in the OpenAI Python SDK and hardcoded decimals in Coinbase AgentKit: three PRs, how each ended, and why.
MCP Open Source Contributions: Playwright, GitHub, LobeHub
My PRs to Playwright MCP, the GitHub MCP Server and LobeHub: which were merged, which were closed, and what the reviews taught me. With code and links.
AI Face Detector: Spotting AI-Made Faces with MobileNetV2
AI Face Detector classifies a face photo as real or StyleGAN-generated: MobileNetV2 transfer learning, a FastAPI service, and an honest look at its limits.
DevTo-MCP: Building an MCP Server for the DEV Community API
DevTo-MCP connects the DEV Community (Forem) API to assistants like Claude: Zod input checks, a retrying API client, a draft fallback and an npm naming lesson.
Memoryze: A Spaced Repetition App with React and Supabase
How I built Memoryze in one night: the SM-2 algorithm, Supabase auth and row level security, a 3D card flip in Framer Motion, and two bugs I still need to fix.
Adding Lookaround to Google RE2: A Proof of Concept
My fork that adds bounded lookaround to Google RE2 without backtracking, the #585 issue I opened, and what EPFL's unbounded lookbehind work showed me.
Contributing to github-mcp-server: Two PRs, Zero Merges
My two pull requests to GitHub's official MCP server: a create_discussion tool that is still open, and a read-only fix closed in favor of the maintainer's.
Git Branching Strategies: GitFlow vs Trunk-Based
Git branching strategies compared: GitFlow, trunk-based development, merge queues, squash merges, Conventional Commits, pre-commit hooks and git bisect.
