Remote Terminal States Should Stop Re-Publishing Logic
If the provider already reports scheduled, publishing or published, the reconciler should observe rather than repeat the side effect.
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Machine APIs Need Machine Credentials, Not Browser Redirects
A firmware client cannot solve an interactive login flow, and treating the redirect as success hides the real authentication failure.
Find Existing Before Create Is a Practical Reconciliation Pattern
When the remote API lacks your preferred idempotency primitive, deterministic discovery can recover an uncertain previous attempt.
Rate Limiting Is Not Authentication
The public machine API uses request throttling as abuse resistance while retaining Bearer validation as the real identity check.
If the Same Button Is Pressed Twice, Should the Work Run Twice?
When a network response disappears, a user may retry even though the first operation already succeeded on the server. Whether the second request creates new work or returns the result of the first operation is part of the application's contract.
Why Your API Suddenly Returns index.html Through Caddy
A catch-all frontend fallback can hide backend routing mistakes behind a successful HTML response.