Articles in the programming category

  1. Bazel 8.0.0: Key Changes and What They Mean for Your Build Pipelines

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    Bazel 8.0.0 marks a significant milestone in the evolution of the popular build and test tool. This release, announced on December 9, 2024, introduces a wide range of changes, many of which are driven by a continuing effort to streamline Bazel’s core and move critical rules into …

  2. Building a Full-Stack LangChain Prototype for Natural Language Developer Queries

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    Imagine being able to type:

    “Where is the Terraform config for our staging RDS?”
    “What’s the on-call schedule for the payments service?”
    “List all services deployed in the last 24 hours.”

    …and getting back a clear, actionable answer.

    In this article, we’ll build a full-stack LangChain-based prototype that …

  3. Explaining Bazel Build Failures with OpenAI: Automating Log Summarization

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    Bazel is fast, reproducible, and battle-tested at scale — but when something breaks, good luck deciphering its logs. Between action cache messages, output groups, and 500-line stack traces, figuring out why a build failed often feels like solving a riddle wrapped in a C++ binary.

    In this article, we’ll build …

  4. Building an AI-Powered Pre-Push Policy Validator with OpenAI

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    Pre-push hooks are your last line of defense before questionable code hits the remote repo. Traditionally, they’re used to enforce tests or linting, but they can be brittle and overly rigid. What if, instead, your push triggered a context-aware AI that reviewed your code against team policies, security best …

  5. Post-Merge Git Hook: Summarizing Changes with OpenAI

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    Merges often bring in massive changes — sometimes dozens of commits and hundreds of lines of code — and the first thing developers ask is: “What just happened?”

    Wouldn’t it be great if Git could summarize what a merge brought in, in plain English, right after you run git pull or …

  6. Auto-Generating Changelogs with Git Hooks and OpenAI

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    Keeping changelogs up to date is one of those development chores that everyone agrees is important… and everyone forgets to do. Manual changelog curation often falls behind or gets skipped entirely. But what if your Git workflow could automatically generate changelog entries, summarize diffs intelligently, and update your CHANGELOG.md …

  7. Creating a Downloadable Git Hook Template Repo for Your AI-Powered CLI

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    Now that you’ve got a fully functional, Python-powered Git hook CLI backed by OpenAI, the next step is sharing it — the right way. A downloadable GitHub repo template helps your teammates (or the open-source world) clone, customize, and integrate the tooling into their own workflows with minimal friction.

    In …

  8. Packaging Your AI-Powered Git Hook as a Python CLI Tool

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    Building a local Git hook with Python is great, but if you want others on your team (or across multiple repos) to use it, you’ll want to package it as a reusable command-line tool. In this article, we’ll turn our AI-powered Git hook into a proper Python CLI …

  9. Beyond Bash: Writing Intelligent Git Hooks with Python and LLMs

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    Git hooks are one of the most powerful — and most underutilized — features in the Git ecosystem. They allow you to automate actions at key points in your Git workflow: before committing, before pushing, after merging, and more. Traditionally, these hooks are implemented using shell scripts, but that’s limiting in …

  10. Building Your Own Git Assistant with OpenAI and Python

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    GitHub Copilot is impressive, but what if you could build your own AI-powered Git assistant tailored to your workflow? In this article, we’ll walk step-by-step through building a command-line Git assistant using Python and OpenAI’s API. It will explain diffs, write commit messages, generate .gitignore files, and even …

  11. Git Rebase vs. Merge: A Deep Dive into Git Internals

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    If you’ve ever participated in a heated pull request debate, you’ve probably encountered the age-old dilemma: Should we rebase or merge? While this question often sparks opinions based on team culture or aesthetics, there’s a more technical layer that rarely gets discussed — what’s really happening inside …

  12. The Evolution of Source Code Management: From SVN to AI-Powered Git

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    Source Code Management (SCM) has evolved dramatically over the past few decades. What started as simple file versioning systems has transformed into sophisticated platforms integrating AI-driven automation, security, and collaboration features. From the days of CVS and SVN to the dominance of Git and the rise of AI-powered development, this …

  13. Counting Lines of Code by Language in a Code Repository

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    Understanding the composition of a codebase can provide valuable insights: Which languages dominate the repository? Where might maintenance efforts be concentrated? Counting lines of code by language is a common task when assessing project complexity, preparing for audits, or reporting progress in multi-language environments.

    In this article, we’ll explore …

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