Announcing gh-observer: Waiting for CI Should Not Be Misery
Look, I know what you’re thinking: “Another dev scratched their own itch and now they want to tell me about it.” Guilty. But hear me out, because this particular itch has probably been annoying you too, and the scratch is genuinely useful. The Problem Nobody Talks About Here’s the scenario that broke me: I push a PR, immediately run gh pr checks --watch, and… it bombs out with an error because GitHub Actions hasn’t queued anything yet. So I wait. I run it again. Maybe it works, maybe it doesn’t. And when it finally does start showing me checks, I’m staring at a list of job names with no idea whether that 3m 52s I’ve been waiting is normal or a sign that something’s silently wedged. ...