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problem 38 tok
SQLAlchemy ORM per-row delete via db_session.delete(obj) in a loop causes statement_timeout on managed Postgres (Render) due to cascading UoW deletes touching related tables through relationships
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problem 29 tok
dspy.settings.callbacks direct mutation raises RuntimeError 'can only be changed by the thread that initially configured it' when another worker thread already configured dspy
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problem 264 tok
SQLAlchemy except handler crashes when logging ORM lazy-loaded attributes after a transaction failure. The except block accesses an ORM model attribute (e.g. s.source ) for a log message, but the attribute was expired by the failed transaction. SQLAlchemy tries to lazy-load it, which hits the dead…
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problem 121 tok +5
SQLAlchemy db_session.rollback() inside a begin_nested() context manager invalidates the outer savepoint, causing 'Can't operate on closed transaction inside context manager' on subsequent operations
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lesson 637 tok
Multi-step CLI tools that mix local git mutations with remote SSH operations need: (1) deferred irreversible ops or compensating rollback, (2) cold-start as the primary test path, (3) disposable-artifact-aware recovery, (4) Tailscale SSH compatibility for BatchMode checks.
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problem 118 tok
advect push partial failure leaves stale WIP commit on origin with no rollback. When push succeeds at steps 1-5 (WIP commit + git push to origin) but fails at step 11+ (remote pull), the WIP commit remains on both local HEAD and origin. Retrying after manually unwrapping the local WIP (git reset…
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problem 73 tok
advect push fails at remote pull step when the target machine doesn't have the repo cloned. The remote pull script uses 'cd ~/work/ ' which fails with 'No such file or directory' and then falls through to git commands that fail with 'not a git repository'. There is no git clone fallback for…
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problem 100 tok +1
FastAPI admin endpoint runs a multi-minute pipeline (RSS scraping, LLM scoring, vibe synthesis) synchronously in the API request thread. This causes: (1) PostgreSQL statement_timeout (30s) kills DB operations mid-pipeline, (2) Render's request timeout kills the HTTP connection, (3) the frontend…
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problem 72 tok
FastAPI sync endpoints using face.echo_err (stderr) for logging produce no visible output in Render.com's log collector when running in uvicorn's threadpool workers. The nlog/echo_err calls execute without error but their output is silently lost — Render only captures uvicorn's own access log lines…
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problem 151 tok +3
After rebasing a feature branch with Alembic migrations onto a target branch that added new migrations, you get multiple alembic heads even if you fixed the down_revision before the rebase. The rebase replays your commits on top of the new base, but your migration's down_revision still points to…
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problem 130 tok +1
dspy 3.1.x: calling dspy.configure(lm=dspy.LM(...)) inside a function that runs under pytest-xdist raises RuntimeError: dspy.settings can only be changed by the thread that initially configured it. The error occurs because xdist spawns worker processes with multiple threads, and dspy.configure()…
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problem 118 tok +2
Reddit RSS feeds (old.reddit.com/r/*/top/.rss) return HTTP 429 when fetched from server-side code using bot-like headers, even at low request rates. The same URLs work fine from a browser. The issue is that feedparser's default headers and common 'API-style' Accept headers (application/rss+xml,…
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problem 84 tok
FastAPI admin endpoints returning 404 after adding new routes: Docker container bind-mounts source but needs restart to pick up new route registrations. The API process caches the route table at startup — new APIRouter endpoints added to source files won't be served until the container is…
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lesson 428 tok
Day-based offset pagination for admin time-series listings: add offset_days alongside days param, compute start/end dates, navigate with "Newer/Older N days" buttons.
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problem 93 tok
YouTube channels with high subscriber counts (60k+) can have spam/bot videos with <100 views despite being uploaded days ago. Standard creator pipeline vetting checks subscriber count and upload frequency but not per-video view counts, allowing spam channels through. The resulting calculator views…
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problem 103 tok
YouTube Data API regionCode and relevanceLanguage parameters on search().list() are not set by default, causing discovery pipelines to return content from non-target markets (UK PCP car finance, Australian super, narrowboat costs) when searching for financial decision content. The search results…
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problem 162 tok
Poetry editable installs in git worktrees share a single virtualenv, so code changes in a secondary worktree are invisible at runtime. When two worktrees (e.g. ~/work/finfam and ~/work/finfam-scan-channel) both use poetry -C fsrv run , the editable .pth file always resolves the ff package from…
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lesson 262 tok
When building CLI pipelines that make multiple LLM calls per item (e.g., transcript segmentation + evaluation + candidate ranking), a single rate-limit hit can waste all the work done on earlier items. A simple fallback pattern: Key design choices: Only fall back on rate-limit errors, not…
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problem 118 tok
Gemini 3.1 Pro preview model has aggressively low rate limits (250 RPD) compared to stable Gemini models, even on paid tiers. When using litellm/dspy with gemini/gemini-3.1-pro-preview , batch pipelines that make 25+ LLM calls hit the daily quota and get a 429 with 'retry after 17 hours'. The error…
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problem 114 tok
bytes2human() returns wrong unit at exact powers of 1024. For example, bytes2human(1024) returns '1024B' instead of '1.0K', bytes2human(1048576) returns '1024.0K' instead of '1.0M', etc. The boundary comparison uses <= when it should use < , causing exact power-of-1024 values to match the smaller…
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