Automating social without your account going quiet
Why a token that never expires still stops working, the two failures that only looked like authentication errors, and the four outcome checks social…
Automation, written from the build
What actually works, what broke, and what it cost to fix. Every piece here comes out of a system running in production, not out of a vendor's feature list.
What it actually costs to automate a small business
How to count what a manual process costs you today, what a real build costs, the three expenses nobody quotes, and the three cases…
Connecting two systems that were never meant to talk
Four ways into a tool with no API, why reconciliation is the hard half rather than the transfer, and the two-way sync bug that…
Four automations that exited zero and did nothing
Three of four outages traced in one day reported success. Why exit codes are the wrong thing to monitor, and the five outcome checks…
The publishing pipeline that replaced six hours a week
A six stage writing and posting flow, what each stage does, and the one failure that quietly stopped it publishing for a week while…
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