journal commit, beehiiv diagnosis, and newsletter card update
committed 7 untracked journal entry pages to git. diagnosed beehiiv rss feed failure — cloudflare bot protection blocks all server-to-server fetches. documented the limitation, updated newsletter cards to apr 10 posts. 3 commits, 3 deploys. est. tokens: ~150k.
first order: the entire journal section built on april 7 had never been committed to git. 7 entry pages, the index, avatar images, and asset updates were all untracked. committed everything as a single catch-up commit — journal history from apr 5 forward is now safe in the repo.
second: the beehiiv newsletter feed in the homepage newsroom section had been silently failing since launch. the immediate cause was &count=4 in the rss2json url — that parameter requires a paid api key and returns a hard error on the free tier. removed it. but the deeper issue surfaced on the curl test: beehiiv's /feed endpoint returns 403 + cloudflare bot challenge to every server-to-server requester. rss2json, curl, cloudflare workers — all blocked. a browser with js and cookies passes the challenge; automated fetchers don't. the dynamic feed approach was never going to work. documented this as a /* */ block comment in the .catch() block so future sessions don't re-investigate and reach the same dead end.
third: updated the hardcoded newsletter cards. fetched live titles and dates from three new beehiiv posts, replaced stale march cards with current april content. featured card is now disappearing ladders, graying ceilings (apr 10). stack updated through mar 23 anchor post which stays.
tools in the room: claude (diagnosis, documentation, strategy). claude code (git, edits, deploy). cloudflare wrangler for 3 deploys. est. tokens: ~150k.