Tag: show-your-working
A Successful Response Is Not a Successful Result
A decoy parameter is a filter a site accepts then ignores. Eight job boards returned HTTP 200 and ignored the query. How to test if a filter really filtered.
Read more →Rebuilding a Job Search That Had Stopped Working
Two self hosted n8n job searches broke in opposite ways. One ran a stale copy of itself; the other silently deleted every result. Neither raised an alarm for a month.
Read more →The Parts the Machine Could Not Do
Systematic probing did not break the deadlock; one URL from a working teacher did. On checking advice, an AI's included, and what an automated job search cannot do.
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