Daily AI life-log publisher fails on dev.to TLS timeout, prompting multi-channel archive rethink

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An automated daily journal pipeline that publishes to dev.to reported three consecutive SSL handshake timeouts on the night of November 6, 2026, so Day 168's entry failed to publish. The author argues this exposed the risk of relying on a single overseas platform, which currently hosts about 105 archived posts. They compare single-channel, nominal multi-channel, and self-hosted archiving models, and weigh the cost and control trade-offs. The chosen plan is to keep dev.to as the primary channel while adding a local static HTML archive as a fallback and refactoring the publisher into channel adapters. Short-term fixes include backfilling the missed entry and hardening the backfill script against duplicate-title errors.

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