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auto-mr: one command from feature branch to merged PR
A Go CLI that pushes your branch, opens an MR/PR, waits for CI, and merges — works on both GitLab and GitHub
I push a feature branch a dozen times a week. Every single time, the dance is the same: git push, switch to the browser, click the “Create MR” button, set assignee, set reviewer, add labels, wait for CI, click merge, switch back to terminal, git checkout main, git pull, git branch -d feature/.... It’s not hard. It’s just tedious — and the kind of friction that adds up over a week.
I had a shell script glued together with glab, gh, jq, yq, and gum doing this for years. It worked, but it broke whenever any of those tools updated and was a pain to ship to a fresh laptop. So I rewrote the whole thing in Go and called it auto-mr. One binary, no external CLIs, works on both GitLab and GitHub.
Bootstrap Go Projects with gonew
Use the official gonew tool to scaffold new Go projects from a template repository — and a real-world example with template-api
Every Go service I start tends to need the same plumbing: a cmd/ entry point, a Dockerfile, a Taskfile, golangci-lint config, CI workflows, a release pipeline. Copy-pasting from the previous project works, but it gets stale fast. gonew — the official Go scaffolding tool — turns any module into a reusable starting point.
bullets: a colorful, goreleaser-style logger for Go CLIs
A small Go logging library focused on beautiful terminal output — bullets, spinners, progress, and updatable lines — without dragging in a heavy framework.
I love how goreleaser looks when it runs. Tidy bullets, indented sub-steps, the right amount of color, occasional spinners. Every time I write a Go CLI of my own, I want that aesthetic — and I don’t want to pull in a 100-dependency logging framework to get it. So I wrote bullets.
calcdate: date arithmetic that doesn't make you cry
A Go CLI for date math, range generation, and timezone conversion with a readable expression syntax
Every shell scripter has, at some point, googled “date subtract day mac” or “GNU date macOS BSD difference” and wished they hadn’t. The date command is one of the most platform-fragmented tools in any Unix toolbox: GNU date and BSD date disagree on basically every flag that matters. And once you’ve worked out the syntax for “yesterday,” you still need to do something useful with it — like generate a range of timestamps for a backfill, or compute end-of-month, or skip weekends.
I got tired of this. So I wrote calcdate. Same binary on Linux, macOS, anywhere. One expression syntax. Version 2 just landed and the syntax is now genuinely pleasant to use.
cartographer-mcp: give Claude Code a map of your GitLab architecture
An MCP server that crawls GitLab groups to build a service catalog with dependency graphs, queryable from Claude Code
Every Claude Code session that involves more than one repo starts with the same monologue: “we have a payment service that calls user-service via REST, which publishes events that notification-service consumes, and oh by the way the platform team owns auth-service…” By the time I’ve finished the briefing, I’ve burned tokens and patience.
cartographer-mcp is my attempt at fixing that. It crawls your GitLab organization, builds a service catalog with a dependency graph, and exposes it as MCP tools so Claude Code already knows the shape of your architecture.