tooling

A blog pipeline that researches, writes, verifies, and publishes on its own, plus the four gates that make it trustworthy.

TL;DR: The author's blog publishes articles fully automatically via a 2-hour cron pipeline that researches, drafts, verifies, and posts without human touch. Safety comes from strong brakes: verification gates that reject bad content, automatic rollback after publishing, and escalation to humans for taste calls. Full-auto is trusted only for mechanical tasks; editorial judgment stays human.

Two-layer API key rotation, provider fallback, and DoH for lying ISP DNS: lessons from building a research script that refuses to die quietly.

TL;DR: Firecrawl's keyless search endpoint died with permanent 403s mid-research, so the author pivoted to keyed APIs. The result is web-direct.py, 125 lines doing search, scrape, and extract with two-layer rotation: next key first, then next provider. A DoH health check catches lying ISP DNS, falling back to curl --resolve.