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Field notes · September 2026

Finding articles that an automated publishing system skipped.

At SGNews, repairing the publishing process included making skipped articles visible so they could be processed again.

← All writing

SGNews is a news site with an automated publishing process. I worked on how it collected source stories, prepared articles, and handled failures.

The project record counted 47,277 articles published between 7 May and 12 September 2026, including 2,445 in the final measured week. Those are historical figures from the site’s public data.

The articles left behind

Thirteen articles had been skipped by earlier processing runs. After the repair, a recorded run processed those articles in 89 seconds with no errors.

That timing describes one run. The more useful lesson was that the waiting articles could be identified and recovered, instead of disappearing into an apparently successful process.

Show what failed

A source can stop working for several reasons: its page structure changes, it returns no article text, or access is blocked. Those failures need different fixes.

I worked on identifying those conditions and keeping the processing queue moving through the waiting articles. For a business relying on automatic publishing, knowing what was skipped is part of knowing whether the system is working.

Related work: SGNews

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