When a Broken Link Is Not a Broken Link

Photo by Kyle Glenn on Unsplash I keep a small dashboard running that watches this website for me. Is it up? Does the sitemap still match what&rsquo;s actually on disk? Are the update feeds live? And, once a night, the unglamorous one: are there any dead links &mdash; anywhere on the site &mdash; quietly rotting? One morning it told me there was. One broken link, on one page. The page was a post…