Distillation

Date: Aug 5, 2026

• 🔴 (13:45) User stated deployment must never fail silently when standard.site publication fails; publishing is a deployment prerequisite.
• 🔴 (13:45) User stated deployed document links must never point at missing records.
• 🟡 (13:45) scripts/publish-standard-site.mjs was changed to use FETCH_ATTEMPTS = 3 and FETCH_RETRY_DELAY_MS = 1_000; fetchWithRetry() retries rejected fetch() calls with 1-second then 2-second backoff.
• 🟡 (13:45) Retry handling was applied to XRPC GETs, XRPC POSTs, com.atproto.repo.uploadBlob, and https://plc.directory/${did} DID resolution; HTTP error responses remain fatal rather than retried.
• 🟡 (13:45) .github/workflows/deploy.yml was changed to remove if: ${{ env.BSKY_APP_PASSWORD != '' }} and continue-on-error: true; the publication command now runs as a required step, so missing credentials or publication failure blocks deployment.
• 🟡 (13:45) Prettier initially reported formatting issues in scripts/publish-standard-site.mjs; pnpm exec prettier --write formatted the upload call, while .github/workflows/deploy.yml remained unchanged after formatting.
• 🟡 (13:45) Local standalone Node validation was blocked because Volta reported Node is not available and required volta install node; the project-managed pnpm environment was used instead.
• 🟡 (13:45) Astro build passed: output static, directory /home/byk/Code/byk.github.io/dist/, 17 page(s) built in 4.89s, complete in 3.87s; generated routes included /standard-site.json, /rss.xml, /posts/index.html, /posts/2/index.html, and /posts/3/index.html.
• 🟡 (13:45) Reliability changes were committed as f672592 with message fix: require standard.site publication; commit changed 2 files with 32 insertions and 11 deletions.
• 🟡 (13:46) Commit f672592 was pushed from master to origin/master (5400235..f672592); GitHub reported 8 Dependabot vulnerabilities on the default branch: 3 high and 5 moderate.
• 🟡 (13:46) GitHub Actions run 31011792342 (Deploy to GitHub Pages, master, push) started at 2026-08-05T13:45:56Z; the build job and install/build/upload step initially succeeded while the publication step was still in progress.
• 🟡 (13:46) User requested follow-up verification of run 31011792342, standard.site publication, and the latest document through public.api.bsky.app.
• 🟡 (13:46) Public API lookup for at://did:plc:kl3s4yablm3fgnxfkn47uy5r/site.standard.document/3ddlziywd523h returned HTTP 400 with RecordNotFound.
• 🟡 (13:47) Run 31011792342 failed in Publish standard.site records to the byk.im PDS at 2026-08-05T13:47:02.6169824Z with ✗ fetch failed and exit code 1; the Pages deployment was skipped.
• 🟡 (13:47) Investigation confirmed the remaining failure is PDS reachability: meadow.us-east.host.bsky.network was unreachable from both GitHub Actions and the local environment; direct PDS requests timed out.
• 🟡 (13:47) The public API continued returning RecordNotFound for document TID 3ddlziywd523h; the record was not published because the PDS was unavailable.
• 🟡 (13:47) Assistant advised rerunning via GitHub Actions -> Deploy to GitHub Pages -> Run workflow after PDS recovery; expected sequence is publish the publication record, publish all document records, prune old slug-keyed records, then deploy the site.
• 🟡 (13:47) Repository status still contained untracked src/content/posts/teaching-my-agent-to-wait.mdx; it was not included in commit f672592.