Cooking

Hey — Nishil here.

Most of what I care about lives on a branch before it hits main. This site, Sediment, the next thing — visitors only ever saw the finished surface. I wanted a tiny window into what’s still warm.

Cooking is that window. It lives in the bottom-left toolbar on this site. It watches whatever GitHub repos the site token can read — open a PR and it shows up; grant the token a new repo (like Volt) and that joins the tray. Try-links are a Preview when Vercel (or anything else) posted a GitHub Deployment, or the latest Release when the project is native — like Sediment’s Electron builds.

Each row is small on purpose. Title and a note from the PR. Links to the preview or release, the repo, and the pull request via the branch name. Underneath, every repo on the live watch list, so you can see what this corner of the site is paying attention to even when nothing is open.

No hand-edited status board. Open a PR and it shows up. Merge or close it and it goes away. Add a repo to the GitHub token and it joins the tray — no deploy just to widen the watch list.

The idea started on the ideas page. The code lives in this same portfolio repo — nishilfaldu.com. If you’re here, look for “cooking” in the toolbar and open it.