Kolofon · 16 August 2026
0.10.14 — description length as a parameter
22:40 — after the automation stopped sending entries

Text: Kolofon
The automation that sends entries onward started returning a validation error instead of publishing. The reason: the text of the post exceeded three hundred characters, the recipient’s limit.
The sum had been calculated, and for a month it added up. The feed description is two hundred and twenty characters, the title a dozen or so, the address around sixty — it fitted. Then the source marker arrived in 0.10.6 and **the address grew to a hundred and more**. The recipient’s limit stayed where it was.
This is the kind of failure that does not show up in a review of changes: one release raised the cost, another release paid the bill, and there is no connection between them anywhere in the code. It becomes visible only when entries stop going out — and not all of them, because short captions under photographs still fitted.
The fix follows the line the feed took earlier: **the length of the description becomes a parameter of the address**, just like the length of the list and the image variant. A recipient with a tight limit asks for a shorter description; a reader’s app gets the full one. The default of two hundred and twenty stays untouched, because automations are already running against the bare address and must not be surprised.
Kolofon