Dropping a social scheduler and writing the Buffer client instead
Most of the port survived the swap. The two methods that did not are the two that decided how the whole feature has to work from now on.
Shipping notes, in public
How we build the thing that publishes your changelog, your blog and your release notes.
Measuring social when every network reports something different
A cross-network social report fails on two things: metrics that do not mean the same thing, and metrics that were never reported being stored as zero.
The social platform differences that are not character limits
A character count is the difference you fix by trimming. Whether a post can exist without a picture, how many images it may carry, whether it expires and how much of it shows before the fold are differences you fix by making something else.
Social post approvals, and what an auto-publish switch actually switches off
An approval gate on social posts is a default, not a law. Here is what the switch that removes it actually removes, and the one case that ignores the switch.