I build developer tools since 2013

Hi! I'm Stefan Buck a software engineer with passion for the web. In 2013 I wrote the initial version of OctoLinker a browser extension for GitHub trusted by over 30,000 developers. More recently, I created Pull Request Badge a GitHub App that brings badges to your Pull Requests in an automated way — and more tools are on the way.

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Building an AI Software Factory on Cursor Cloud Agents

Cursor recently told me I'm in the top 1% of its users. You'd assume that means I write a lot of code. Mostly, I don't. Up to ten Cloud agents write it for me, and I decide what they work on.

October 22, 2026 · Read the post →

GitHub's Quiet Win: UI & API in Perfect Sync
LLM Chat, the New Command Line?
My Favourite Platform Engineering Tools
Farewell to OctoLinker
Your Platform Team Is Selling the Wrong Thing
Dialog Style: Brilliant Example of Communication
Platform Engineers: Sorry, Your Developers Are Not Your Customers
AI-First API Design
How to Switch Teams Successfully and Avoid Common Pitfalls
A Platform Team's Guide to Inevitable Failure
Codeless Contributions with GitHub Issue Forms
Repository Templates Meets GitHub Actions
10 Tips to Get Faster Code Reviews
Internationalizing a Web Application with Half a Million Lines of Code
The Hidden Superpower of Deno: Xeval
My Favorite Podcasts
Five Essential Tools I Have Used for Years
The Four Solutions to Solve the Problem
Automatically Add Links to Your Pull Request Description
Faster Refactoring with Comby
How OctoLinker Runs Automate E2e Tests Using Puppeteer