Documenting the Chaos
A blog about OpenChaos.dev — the democratic codebase where community votes decide what ships every Sunday.
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Weeks 8 & 9: The Bot Only Listened to Its Master
The automerge bot ran for the first time. It skipped 9 community PRs and merged the maintainer's PR - ranked #29 with 1 vote.
Weeks 6 & 7: The Maintainer Disappeared
I stopped governing and nobody noticed. Democracy shipped, PRs learned to die, and the site grew two faces — all while I just pressed merge.
Week 5: The $100 Bounty That Nobody Wanted
I offered $100 to win the auto-merge. The best contributors declined it. That taught me more about governance than any survey.
How a 1.337% Random Check Permanently Broke Our Next.js Site
A three-line Math.random() joke poisoned our ISR cache forever. Here's the subtle interaction between Server Components and Incremental Static Regeneration that made it possible.
Week 4: Never Gonna Give You Up
Someone tried to delete the constitution. Rick Astley saved it.
Week 3: The Trojan Horse
A PR hid vote manipulation in plain sight. Democracy overruled the maintainer. So the maintainer wrote a constitution.
Week 2: The Acceleration
Last Sunday, we merged our first community PR. This Sunday, the community voted to merge every day.
The First Merge
How a repo let the internet decide what gets shipped—and what happened next.