Mostly the parts that were harder than expected — the undocumented pagination
caps, the identifiers that live in prose, and the payload that would not fit in memory.
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GPSR: monitoring Safety Gate is easy, proving you did it is not
The EU General Product Safety Regulation has applied since 13 December 2024. Checking alerts is the simple part — the requirement sellers fail is producing a dated, defensible record of what they checked and when. Measured against 64,455 EU recalls.
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Seven government recall feeds, and what it takes to make them agree
Notes from normalising 176,000 product recalls from the EU, France and the US into one schema — the undocumented skip caps, a 14 MB download that decompresses to 294 MiB, why streaming it was not enough, and the amendments nobody announces.
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