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Developer finds and fixes duplicate bug in DEV.to publishing script

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The author discovered a bug in their personal script for publishing articles to DEV.to, where the duplicate-article check only considered the 30 most recent posts, missing older ones. They fixed this by implementing a pagination system to check all published articles. However, upon reviewing their separate MCP server, they found the same bug present in its article creation tool, which had not been updated with the fix. This highlights how identical bugs can persist in different code paths even when related issues are resolved. AI

RANK_REASON The item describes a bug fix in a personal publishing script and a related tool, which is a technical development rather than a major industry release or research.

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Developer finds and fixes duplicate bug in DEV.to publishing script

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  1. dev.to — MCP tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Enjoy Kumawat ·

    My Publish Script's Duplicate-Article Check Learned to Paginate. Its Twin in the MCP Server Never Got the Fix.

    <p>I run a small MCP server that wraps my DEV.to account — list articles, create one, update one, that kind of thing. I also have a completely separate script, <code>publish_devto.py</code>, that a scheduled task calls directly to publish drafts twice a day. Same account, same AP…

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