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Your job feed is lying: detecting silent JSON API breakage (a stdlib-only GitHub Action)
I consume a lot of public JSON APIs, and the worst failure mode is the one that never throws: the feed still returns HTTP 200 but the shape has quietly changed. A field gets renamed. The item count drops from 800 to 12 overnight. A salary key disappears. An endpoint starts returning an empty array. None of it is an error β your HTTP client is happy β so a plain status-code health check says "all good" while your data is already broken.
That is the gap jobfeed-watchdog (JFW) fills: a s...
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