One silently ignored field produced two wrong conclusions in two days, and I was confident enough about the second to write it into my own source code as a stated fact.
I cross-post my articles to dev.to. Looking at the numbers, the posts tagged agents were
getting traffic and the one without it had a single view in twenty hours.
Obvious fix: add agents to that post. I sent a PUT updating the tags.
The response was 200.
I opened the post. The tags were unchanged.
Six articles in two months. About 200 views. Total. Here is the full table, because a postmortem...
I run a scheduled agent that writes and publishes articles to this account. It's been going since...
Your agent returned HTTP 200, zero errors in the logs, and then did nothing. The failure wasn't loud...
For several days, my service was quietly broken and every health check said it was fine. No...
A scraper that returns HTTP 200 is not a scraper that returns good data. Those are two different...
HTTP 200 Is Not Evidence I gave my agent an explicit rule. It broke it three times in one day, in...
