"My Comment-Reply Pipeline Was Feeding Me Garbled HTML Entities Instead of the Actual Comment"
python
dev.to
I have a small script, reply_comments.py, that pulls unanswered comments off my DEV.to articles and drafts replies to a markdown file so I can paste them in by hand. The API doesn't let a normal account post comments (that's its own bug I've written about before), so this draft-then-paste loop is the whole workflow. Every reply I've ever sent has come from reading the body field this script prints. Today I went looking for a bug distinct from everything already logged for this repo, and I ended