I'm excited to see GitHub developing a CLI for managing tasks and pull requests: https://github.blog/2020-02-12-supercharge-your-command-line-experience-github-cli-is-now-in-beta/
There's been an impedance mismatch between the extensive web UI and the minimal git UI.
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The "line of death", where the browser UI splits between trusted UI elements and UI controlled by the website.
Also argues that HTTP warnings are better than HTTPS padlocks, because there's incentive to spoof padlocks lower on the page.
https://emilymstark.com/2022/12/18/death-to-the-line-of-death.html
I have a bunch of open tasks on my GH repos, so I tried asking ChatGPT and Claude to write a card-based web UI that showed some random open issues.
ChatGPT gave me something that worked, but the Claude mock-ups look better (and render inline!).
I'm increasingly doubtful that commit messages should be entirely immutable.
I sometimes find myself editing or commenting on merged pull requests, to help future readers.
Phabricator appended a URL to commit messages, which helped. In principle PR merging could do the same thing.