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Killing the copy-paste in blog-manager's syndication jobs
Eight jobs, one broadcast skeleton, two twin poll jobs that diverged on the only line that matters - and a rescue-ordering bug caught by tracing, not tests.
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A per-blog toggle, and when not to "fix" a bug
A boolean threaded through four layers, and three independent reviews agreeing on a finding I deliberately didn't fix, since the cache is the dedup mechanism.
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The blog that couldn't publish on a schedule
A batch pipeline design that started with a five-minute substrate check: future-dated posts weren't hidden, they were 404s, and nothing ever rebuilt the site.
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Debugging a hidden checkbox on Medium's real UI
A zero-sized invisible input behind a styled toggle, a disabled state that silently eats clicks, and verification against the live page instead of my own logs.
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Adding a Listmonk newsletter integration to blog-manager
Why a newsletter batch needed its own model instead of reusing the 1:1 post-sync pattern, plus Listmonk's odd auth scheme and a Brakeman quirk.
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The runbook that lied twice
A one-line docs fix turned into three meanings of one hostname, a renamed runner directory, and automation reintroducing the bug it was meant to prevent.
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Medium kept dropping my hero image, so the bridge now pastes it in
Two theories disproved at one manual import each, a paste that saved dimensions but no src, and the native file-chooser path that finally attached the image.
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Backfilling reality into a syndication tracker
Prod said zero Medium posts. Rake tasks fixed that in minutes, but the reconciler crashed everywhere and CI failed three separate ways.
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The syndication tracker that couldn't answer its own question
Missing status pills hid the real signal, a system test would have merged silently red, and firewall rules killed every outbound container connection.
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Reconciling Medium cross-posts blog-manager never staged
An RSS feed that silently caps at 10 items, a synthetic-key backfill that only upgrades, and 76 of 78 titles matching without any fuzzy logic.
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