Weeknotes for the week finishing Friday, 20th June 2025.

I’ve been reading about continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD), and trying to imagine software development without pull requests (PRs). Although Ben B.C. has talked about this before, my prompt was returning to a PR with unresolved comments. It took me a non-trivial amount of time to remember the context and I’m sure it was no different for Alice, who opened the PR.

The aspect of CI/CD I don’t yet understand is how to break a feature into a logical sequence of commits, without first completing the feature. I’m used to creating the sequence by selectively staging and committing, and to rearranging the sequence by rebasing before merging. I’m not used to merging a part-created sequence; that is, to merging what Martin Fowler calls latent code.

Time’s up!