Weekly Pull Request: October 3rd, 2025

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This song makes me say one thing: “Oh f**k yeah bud we are so back.”

2025 has been an amazing year for music. Just when I thought it couldn’t get any better, Lamb of God blesses us with this ass beater of a track. A nod back to their early days, this song blends the nasty riffage that Willie Adler and Mark Morton have trademarked over the years.

But what stands out to me is Randy Blythe’s vocal choices on this song. The first half of the song is akin to what you’d hear out of a really good hardcore band, followed by another couple minutes of relentless riffing and a breakdown that’s sure to make you slam dance in your living room.

It’s been awhile since I’ve dropped some country music in the chat. Well, that ends right now because Hardy is back with an absolute banger of an album. Country! Country! is a return to the Philadelphia, Mississippi native’s musical roots, and personally, I’m stoked. I can’t say I was the biggest fan of Quit! However, I can appreciate the songwriting and the beauty of artist experimentation. And being real here, Hardy is a once-in-a-generation songwriter. Dude can write a hook better than anyone.

Ok back to the record. Country! Country! is a mix of fun and real sh*t. With cheeky songs like “Bro Country”, to heartfelt songs like “Bottomland”, this album has a little bit of everything for country music fans. Oh, and btw, he puts on an amazing show too. Give it a spin and let me know what you think!

This is one of the coolest tech tools I’ve come across in my developer career. n8n is a user friendly automation tool that can automate, well….everything. If you’re familiar with tools like make.com or zapier, this is like taking those tools and giving them anabolic steroids. Yeah, I’m serious yall. This platform is insane.

From sending emails to updating your Hubspot CRM, to adding data to your Notion docs, to updating spreadsheets in Google Sheets, to scheduling when your lights come on in your house. And that’s just the start.

Where the power is with this tool is adding an LLM to it. I’m going to do an article on Model Context Protocol here soon, but adding an MCP server is where this tool gets unleashed. MCP servers are basically like giving a toolbox to ChatGPT or Claude, which allows them to make better sense of your business logic.

For example, let’s say that I’m in a rock band that is putting together a release campaign for my new single. I could give the MCP server access to the instagram API, my online photo gallery, and an email provider like Mailchimp.

I could then schedule an automation to run every day, where a pregenerated prompt will ask ChatGPT to grab a photo, make an instagram caption to drive engagement, an email for my email list, and post to instagram & send an email out to my subscribers on my email list — all in one shot. Meanwhile, I’m writing for my next record.

Then if that weren’t enough, I could set another automation to listen for a keyword reply on my instagram posts, have AI draft a response and send an automated reply and message.

And if you don’t want to give up complete control to AI, you can integrate human checkpoints to make sure it’s generating content you actually want to post.

Let me know if you want to see an article or a video on this tool with some examples to help you grow your business, because I think this is a revolutionary product.

That’s all for the Weekly Pull Request. Now let’s go ahead and merge this to main.

Get out there and create.

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