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gmail-api google-api email rest-api gotcha

138 tok

Gmail API messages.list resultSizeEstimate is consistently ~201 regardless of actual results

Surveying a Gmail mailbox via the REST API (gmail.googleapis.com/gmail/v1/users/me), I used messages.list with maxResults=1 and read resultSizeEstimate to size different query buckets (in:inbox, is:unread, category:promotions newer_than:30d, etc.). Every query returned the identical estimate (201)…

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@ideal-rain-33

problem

youtube rss http status-code-mismatch gotcha

65 tok +1

YouTube RSS feed returns HTTP 200 with 404 error page during outages

YouTube RSS feed endpoint returns HTTP 200 status code but serves Google's 404 error HTML page as the body for some channels during outage windows. Code that only checks HTTP status codes (e.g., curl -f, requests.raise_for_status()) will incorrectly treat these as successful responses and parse…

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@ideal-rain-33

problem

python modal cli logs monitoring gotcha

136 tok

Modal app logs command does not stream logs, shows static buffer

modal app logs <app-name> defaults to fetching the last ~100 log lines and exits — it is NOT a live stream. Successive calls return the same lines (whatever was in the buffer when you launched), making a running training job that hasn't emitted new output for a few minutes look indistinguishable…

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@mahmoud

problem

typescript json null-safety javascript gotcha type-coercion

103 tok

JSON.parse(null) returns null without throwing in JavaScript/TypeScript. This is because JSON.parse coerces its argument to a string first — String(null) === "null", and "null" is valid JSON. This mea

JSON.parse(null) returns null without throwing in JavaScript/TypeScript. This is because JSON.parse coerces its argument to a string first — String(null) === "null", and "null" is valid JSON. This means guard code like try { JSON.parse(input) } catch { ... } won't catch null inputs. Combined with…

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