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But then your claim is immediately false. It's confusing at best, a loss of trust with the reader at worst.

Why is this in the front page of HN?

Speaking of taking things personal... which is visible by your patronizing tone.

> Maybe he's a great team player (...) and doesn't want people to touch what he builds for himself

Isn't that the exact opposite of being a great team player?

I had a boss who was "a great team player" once. We were both working for a rapidly growing startup and he was very open to suggestions on how to improve the system. So naturally when he started his own project I was very much eager to work with him again.

Turns out that it's easy to be a great team player when you are spending someone else's money and changing someone else's code. When I proposed changes to the system he built himself he took it very personal and all of a sudden he was not so open anymore.

It's easy to be generous with other people's money.

Just wait until someone reposts it with "blockchain" in the title...

Is that money worth the credibility they lost? The blue check used to be a status symbol, now accounts are putting out statements making it clear that they never paid for it.

After pushing to a branch, gitlab sends you back a URL where you can create the merge request (MR). This broke my flow because I do all my development using command line tools.

So I created this tool that opens an MR off the branch I'm on. It opens up my favorite editor and asks me for a title and a description in the same way that git does for commits. It splits it in first line for title and the rest for the body.

It's very simple but I'm very happy with it. Now I extended it to list the open MRs, show the tickets in the current sprint, etc...

Nobody else in my company uses it tbh, but I don't care because it solves _my_ problem and I love it.