No Name, No Bio, No Face: Meet GitHub's Busiest Account (opens in new tab)

You've seen this account. You just never looked at it. Open any repo — yours, a library you depend on, some project you starred two years ago. Scroll the commits, or the closed pull requests, and there it is again. The same little black-and-white avatar — the GitHub Octocat itself, staring back at you. github-actions bot committed / commented / merged… You've seen it a thousand times. I'd seen it a thousand times. And not once had I actually clicked it. What finally made me look wasn't curios...