Guest post by Dan Mindru. Dan is an indie maker, enterprise consultant, and co-host of the Morning Maker Show. He maintains several open source projects and is the founder of Crontap, Saventify, and about 10 other startups.

I was at the dentist the other day, getting ready for my appointment. The waiting room was pompously decorated. Each chair seemed to be from a different, expensive Danish designer. As I realize I’m about to get charged through the nose, I get a notification from my beloved Mail app.

** ding **

Screenshot of GitHub email notification

It’s a new Pull Request on GitHub. This one is different though. I have no idea where it came from! As I scramble to figure out what automation triggered this, some intrusive thoughts start to take shape… Have I been hacked?!