For unknown reasons, WordPress has changed the way it responds to curl queries in an unexpected and unannounced way which breaks the script I use to compose The Overspill.

This is yet another obstacle WordPress has put in my way over the past decade. Pages are changed, responses altered (or not given) in ways which break scripts that are usually quite robust. It’s a constant, low-level annoyance.

I’ve been unable to figure out how WordPress has broken my script despite an hour or so of efforts. A script that has run perfectly for a number of years doesn’t now work, and it’s too late at night to spend any more time on it.

I will try to fix this. But I don’t know what I’ll do if I can’t. (Just for added fun, WordPress refused to accept this from my normal blogpost editor.)

At least there’s an answer to one question: what was the blogpost I was looking for about sizing women’s clothes, posted after 2010, by a woman, with “green” somewhere in the name? Thanks Struan D for the answer:

https://sizes.darkgreener.com/ is the one. THIS is the project I was thinking of: Anna Powell-Smith’s 2012 (after 2010 as I said!) project at darkgreener (contains green in the name!) about dress sizes. As she notes at her site, it’s her only work that’s been featured in both the Wall Street Journal and the Daily Mail. She’s now the director of the Centre for Public Data, an advocacy organisation. Thanks Struan D for the link; no thanks to search engines or chatbots. Humans win again!