How I built a tool that checks if a GitHub issue already has a PR — and why that

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<p>5 days. Solo. First hackathon. One dashboard that tells you whether to ship.</p> <p>This is not a polished retrospective. This is the actual route I took — wrong turns, late

<p>If you've used <code>github-readme-stats</code> on your profile (the Anurag Hazra one with 70k+ stars) you've probably seen this at least once:</p> <p><a

<p><em>This is a submission for the <a href="https://dev.to/challenges/notion-2026-03-04">Notion MCP Challenge</a></em></p> <h2> What I Built </h2> <p>Every Monday standup,

<h2> GitHub API Rate Limits: The Numbers That Block Your Project </h2> <p>GitHub’s REST API is one of the most generous public APIs out there — until it isn’t. At <strong>5,000

<p>Your API returns 200 OK. Great. But is it actually <em>working</em>?</p> <p>I learned this the hard way. Last month, our payment webhook was "up" — returning 200s all day — but

<h2> The grey enemy and the friend to save me from it </h2> <p>If you're a software developer and you are on GitHub, you already know what I'm talking about: the contribution