I have a problem: at work, I’m often juggling more than a half-dozen pull requests, trying to keep them healthy while they pass through code review, QA, requirement updates, etc. Much of the time, I can pay them little mind, but then when change requests come in, or merge conflicts rear their heads, or CI builds start failing for some reason, I need to know about it and be able to address the issues quickly.

So I built this:

MonitorLizard is menu bar tool for Mac OS that uses the GitHub command-line tool gh to keep an eye on your open pull requests and to let you know when there’s a problem. It also gives you a heads up when there are PR’s waiting for your review.

I’ve been using it at work for several weeks now, polishing up the rough edges as I notice issues and addressing feedback from colleagues. If you’d find something like this helpful in your own development work, feel free to pop over to GitHub and run it yourself. (It currently requires that you build it with Xcode, but if other devs are keen, I could do a downloadable build without much fuss.)

Big thanks to Doximity, my employer, for supporting improving our own developer tooling like this!