diff --git a/.github/workflows/docs.yml b/.github/workflows/docs.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..40db436d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/docs.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+name: docs
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - freshen  # TODO, move to main when done
+permissions:
+  contents: write
+jobs:
+  deploy:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - name: Configure Git Credentials
+        run: |
+          git config user.name github-actions[bot]
+          git config user.email 41898282+github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com
+      - uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: |
+          python -m pip install --upgrade pip 
+          pip install hatch hatch-mkdocs
+      - run: hatch -vv run docs:gh-deploy --force
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index e68dbf41..0d6b5cd6 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ build-backend = "hatchling.build"
 
 # TODOs:
 # make sure alpine and mac and win32 build 
-# make sure `hatch run docs:gh-deploy` works
 # fix up re-commit.yaml
 # check code for more TODOs
 
@@ -63,9 +62,7 @@ dependencies = [
 path = "mkdocs.yml"
 
 [tool.hatch.envs.docs]
-# docs require the project to be installed, so that mkdocstrings can infer the
-# API docs by reflecting on the Python module:
-detached = false
+detached = true
 
 dependencies = [
   "mdformat",
diff --git a/src/py_mini_racer/py_mini_racer.py b/src/py_mini_racer/py_mini_racer.py
index 5b6297e7..b7411936 100644
--- a/src/py_mini_racer/py_mini_racer.py
+++ b/src/py_mini_racer/py_mini_racer.py
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ def _get_lib_path(name):
 
 # In python 3 the extension file name depends on the python version
 EXTENSION_PATH = _get_lib_path("mini_racer")
-EXTENSION_NAME = basename(EXTENSION_PATH) if EXTENSION_PATH is not None else None
+EXTENSION_NAME = None if EXTENSION_PATH is None else basename(EXTENSION_PATH)
 
 
 class MiniRacerBaseException(Exception):  # noqa: N818