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Julien Danjou
@juldanjou.bsky.social
‣ Co-founder & CEO of Mergify
‣ ex-Datadog, ex-Red Hat
‣ Author of Serious Python 📗🐍
‣ Creator of #awesomewm and #Gnocchi
Broken main, flaky tests, blocked engineers.
That pain is what gave birth to merge queues — long before GitHub shipped theirs.
Mozilla, Shopify, Uber, and Strava all hacked their own.
I dug into the origin story 👇
mergify.com/blog/the-ori...
The Origin Story of Merge Queues — Mergify
From Bors and Homu to Bulldozer, Kodiak, Mergify, and now GitHub and GitLab, merge queues have shaped how we keep main branches green. This article traces their history, why they emerged, and how they...
mergify.com
September 10, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Building Features One Prompt at a Time
julien.danjou.info/p/vibe-codin...
Building Features One Prompt at a Time
How I built Mergify’s new autoqueue in less than an hour a day
julien.danjou.info
August 27, 2025 at 7:27 AM
I wrote a book 10 years ago. 📗
68,000 words.
77 em dashes.
Zero AI.
julien.danjou.info/p/the-em-das...
The Em Dash Is Dead
And I Might Have Killed It
julien.danjou.info
August 5, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Latest writing:
The Synthetic Wave Is Already Here
julien.danjou.info/p/the-synthe...
The Synthetic Wave Is Already Here
How Spotify just confirmed the AI content tsunami I predicted.
julien.danjou.info
July 29, 2025 at 9:35 AM