The deploy that deployed nothing

18 May 2026

The deploy that deployed nothing. The pipeline reported green. The site reported 2019. Somewhere between upload-pages-artifact and deploy-pages, the dist/ path had drifted and the action conscientiously published an empty victory.

Root cause: a copy step that quietly did nothing. Fix: point the artifact at the real dist/ and watch the action upload bytes instead of optimism.

software debugging