Long-running app deploy failure

[anth-volk]

Unable to access policyengine.org. Debug here.

[anth-volk]

api.policyengine.org is available. As such, this appears to be an app issue. Moving to that repo.

[anth-volk]

May be due to broken filename. See this log:

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  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1204, in _gcd_import
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  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1176, in _find_and_load
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  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1147, in _find_and_load_unlocked
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  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 690, in _load_unlocked
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  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 940, in exec_module
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  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 241, in _call_with_frames_removed
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  File "/srv/main.py", line 3, in <module>
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    from social_card_tags import add_social_card_tags
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  File "/srv/social_card_tags.py", line 10, in <module>
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    post_by_slug = {post["filename"].split(".")[0]: post for post in posts}
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                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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  File "/srv/social_card_tags.py", line 10, in <dictcomp>
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    post_by_slug = {post["filename"].split(".")[0]: post for post in posts}
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                    ~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^
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KeyError: 'filename'

[anth-volk]

What is the cause of this?

This PR modified how articles are built. This altered something (unclear what) such that the small server we run for social card tagging could not find the filename value for at least one article.

The cause of this, in turn, is the way Claude Code approached creating an article from an external link. Instead of creating a separate component akin to BlogPost.jsx, it modified BlogPost to build new functionality. This code has some code quality issues, and the lack of lower deployment environments or comprehensive unit tests meant that nothing caught the issues embedded in that change.

[anth-volk]

How do we proceed?

Short-term: create a new component to handle the OBBBA tool "post"
Medium-term: move social card tagging off the app's deployment itself and to a separate server so that an issue like this can't nuke the whole thing again.
Long-term: we probably don't need App Engine to deploy this app. Also, we need more tests and lower environments.