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Committing Changes to a Pull Request Branch Created from a Fork
Sometimes a pull request on GitHub.com needs some work before it can be merged into the project but you don’t want to force the required work on the pull requests original author. You’re allowed to make changes to the pull request if they are opened to a repository you have push access to, the fork is user-owned, the user has granted the required permissions and there aren’t any branch restrictions that will prevent committing.
January 3, 2024
Spoofing Microchips used for Animal Identification
A microchip implanted under the skin of an animal can be used for identification purposes. The microchips are using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology to transmit an unique tag number using an electromagnetic field when in close contact with an nearby RFID reader device. The microchips are often used to help return lost pets quickly. The unique chip numbers are registered in a designated portal to let animal shelters, animal control officers and veterinarians to look up contact information of the animal’s owner.
November 30, 2022
How to Automatically Generate Clients for your REST API
While helping a colleague with adding some code to the bunq Python SDK to allow him to retrieve some additional information from the API (bunq/sdk_python#148), we noticed that the SDK was automatically generated. We’ve eventually ended up monkey patching the SDK, as we couldn’t make a pull request to the SDK and the API specification or SDK generator wasn’t publicly available. However, this aroused some interest about the automatic generation of API clients.
December 19, 2020
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