Day 11 — Wrestling With APIs

Day 11 felt like a grind. APIs didn’t return what I thought they would, fields were missing, and small changes broke things in ways I didn’t anticipate. I spent a lot of time stepping through responses, logging raw data, and figuring out where my assumptions were wrong. Some moments were frustrating — especially when things *almost* worked. But this was real learning. I stopped expecting APIs to be clean and started treating them as inputs that need to be inspected, validated, and adapted. By the end of the day, the code was better — but more importantly, my mindset was.