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Improving Scheduled Post Management in Landing

This post discusses recent improvements to scheduled post handling within the Landing project. We focused on enhancing code clarity, reliability, and maintainability. Replacing hardcoded strings with an enum improves type safety and code readability. We also improved logging and fixed potential errors.

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Improving LinkedIn Auto-Sync with Staggered Posts

The devlog-ist/landing project focuses on enhancing the landing page experience. We've recently addressed an issue with our LinkedIn auto-sync feature to prevent bot detection. Previously, auto-generated posts were published simultaneously, which risked triggering bot detection mechanisms on LinkedIn.

To mitigate this, we've implemented a staggering mechanism. Now, posts are scheduled with

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Staggered LinkedIn Scheduling for Enhanced Content Delivery

The devlog-ist/landing project focuses on improving content delivery strategies. A recent update optimizes LinkedIn post scheduling for all generation sources, not just auto-sync. This ensures a consistent and measured release of content.

Previously, staggered scheduling was only applied to automatically generated posts. Now, this logic extends to all posts, regardless of their origin (manual

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Enhancements to Landing Page Synchronization

The devlog-ist/landing project helps keep our landing pages up-to-date with the latest content. We've been working on improving its synchronization process with external data sources.

Key improvements include a new job for initial synchronization that smartly detects the last activity date, replacing a hardcoded 7-day window. This makes the sync process more efficient and accurate.

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Automated Diagram Generation for Technical Content

This post discusses automating the creation of diagrams for technical documentation within the devlog-ist/landing project. The goal is to streamline content creation by automatically generating Mermaid diagrams and including them as images in posts.

This feature automates the creation of visual representations of system architecture or data flow. Using AI, a diagram is generated and rendered as

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Boosting SEO on the Landing Page

The devlog-ist/landing project focuses on creating a compelling landing experience. Recent work centered on improving SEO and ensuring proper sitemap discovery.

The Problem

The Cloudflare CDN was overriding the application's robots.txt, which prevented search engines from discovering the sitemap. This negatively impacted SEO performance.

The Approach

To bypass the CDN override, a

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Improving Error Handling and Lock Management in devlog-ist/landing

The devlog-ist/landing project is focused on building a landing page. Recent work improves the reliability of fetching and saving commit diffs and addresses potential issues with lock management. This ensures a smoother and more robust experience for users.

Addressing Lock Release Issues

A critical fix was implemented to only release the stagger lock when it was actually acquired.

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Enhancing SEO on the Landing Project

The landing project aims to provide a public-facing website. We've been working on improving its search engine optimization (SEO). This ensures the site is easily discoverable and receives explicit indexing signals on every crawlable page.

The recent updates focused on adding meta robots directives to control indexing and following behavior, canonical URLs to avoid duplicate content issues,

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Optimizing User Activity Sync in devlog-ist/landing

The devlog-ist/landing project is focused on [project description]. We've been working on improving how user activity is synced, specifically addressing limitations with the Events API. This involves handling date range restrictions and implementing a more robust commit synchronization strategy.

The Events API has a limited range of about 90 days and pagination caps, causing errors when syncing

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Enhancing devlog-ist/landing: Safe Mode Translations

Working on the devlog-ist/landing project, we're focusing on improving user experience through better automation settings. A recent commit addressed missing translations for the auto_sync feature within safe mode. This ensures a consistent and understandable interface across different languages.

Previously, some users encountered untranslated text in the automation settings, specifically

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