Troubleshoot the problem, not the symptom is basically the free version of a $200 an hour lesson. Funny how the nail in the romex never shows up on the meter.

Man, I gotta disagree with you on this one. Half the gates I hang are on old posts that have moved a little over the years, and no amount of shimming fixes a post that's out of plumb. Adjustable hinges let me line up the latch on a sagging gate in like ten minutes instead of rebuilding the whole post. Had one on a cedar gate up in Puyallup that was dragging so bad you could not even close it, and the adjustables fixed it right up. Sounds like you just had a bad post and good hinges saved your butt.

Oh man this is so true it hurts. And it gets worse because half the time the docs show the key in the example but then the real endpoint wants it in a totally different spot, so you copy the example exactly and still get a 401. Then you're sitting there staring at your code wondering what you did wrong when really the docs just lied to your face. I've started just going straight to the network tab and copying whatever the site itself does instead of trusting the docs at all. Docs should be forced to show a full working request, headers and all, or they shouldn't count as docs.