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Four ways "the post succeeded" can be a lie
I build a tool that schedules social posts. This week I added four new places to publish: WordPress, dev.to, Hashnode and Lemmy. Then I had each adapter reviewed by someone who did not write it. The most useful findings were all the same kind of bug: the code said "published" when it had only proven "the server answered".
Here are four ways that happens.
1. A 200 is not the post
My first version of the read-back check fetched the public page and treated HTTP 200 as "live". Tha...
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