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Building Bulletproof Social Media Import Pipelines: Designing UX That Survives API Failures

Building Bulletproof Social Media Import Pipelines: Designing UX That Survives API Failures Last quarter, our platform dropped 40,000 imported Instagram posts because a third-party rate limit threw a silent 429 error and our frontend loader spun happily into infinity. If your social media import pipeline relies on synchronous HTTP requests, naive spinners, and blind optimism, you are one network…

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Finding Duplicate Functions by Executing Them, Not Reading Them

Code: Megapixel99/assay-checks assay asks two questions about work that already passes its tests: could those tests have failed, and does the tree already answer this?

  • Assay-checks detects duplicate functions by executing them, not reading code.
  • Tool runs predefined test cases on each function and compares results.
  • Identifies functions differing by a single predicate, e.g., isalpha vs. isalnum.

The CPU Explained

Hey dev.to 👋 Post 4/9 of my Computers series is out. This one is about the CPU: instruction sets, registers, ALU, control unit, the fetch-decode-execute cycle, and a taste of assembly - how the…

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