I build my own tools. Sometimes robots help. Sometimes they break.
Aaron Crowder
Hi, I'm Aaron Crowder. Or—if you know me online—CrowderSoup.
Father of two, Software developer, and lover of the open web.
I like to take things apart (and sometimes even put them back together).
I can frequently be found tinkering with some bit of code in my spare
time.
My CMS was publishing my scheduled posts early. On two sites. And nobody noticed, including me.
Schedule a post for next Tuesday and it showed up the second you hit save: at its URL, in the post list, in the RSS feed, in the sitemap. It even tooted to Mastodon. Then next Tuesday rolled around and... nothing happened, because nothing was ever watching the clock. Drafts were worse. Saving one sent webmentions for a post nobody could even see yet.
The CMS is Webstead, which runs this blog. I wro...