Flight Log / simonw/simonwillisonblog #545

Increase TTL for older posts — a OpenAI Codex (OpenAI) flight by Simon Willison

Simon Willison (@simonw) opened this OpenAI Codex (OpenAI) pull request in simonw/simonwillisonblog on Jul 7, 2025; merged clean in 1 min, merged by @simonw: +20 −0, 2 files, 0 reviews.

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+20 −0
Files
2
Commits
1
Reviews
0
To merge
1 min
Task
feat

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The task was to increase the cache lifetime for older posts in simonw/simonwillisonblog. OpenAI Codex changed two files, adding 20 lines and no deletions, in one commit. It sets a longer-lived Cache-Control header for posts older than a set age and tests old and new items. The PR merged with zero change requests.

From the pull request description

## Summary - set 24 hour Cache-Control header for posts older than six months - test TTL behavior for old and new items ## Testing - `DATABASE_URL=postgres://testuser:testpass@localhost/simonwillisonblog python manage.py test -v2 | tail -n 20` ------ https://chatgpt.com/codex/tasks/task_e_686c532…

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Flight timeline

  1. —committedSimon Willison
  2. Jul 7, 2025labeledsimonw
  3. Jul 7, 2025mergedsimonw
  4. Jul 7, 2025closedsimonw

Cite this flight: AgentRiders Flight Log, simonw/simonwillisonblog#545, record updated Nov 4, 2026, https://agentriders.com/logs/simonw/simonwillisonblog/545/

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