200 (Posts) OK

Hello everyone,

Hard to believe it, but I have officially hit the 200-post mark on this blog! Crazy, right-I mean, 2018 doesn’t feel that far off?

Now, I know I mentioned in the last post that I had something special planned for post #200 so let’s see what we’ve got!

In honor of post #200, let’s use the Python requests library to send an HTTP request to this very blog:

import requests
response = requests.get('https://michaelsprogrammingbytes.com/')
response.status_code
200

Well, what do you know, it’s a 200 response, OK?

Let’s visit my blog’s GitHub repo while we’re at it:

import requests
response = requests.get('https://github.com/mfletcher2021/blogcode')
response.status_code
200

It appears my blog’s GitHub repo is also keeping it 200, OK?

How about we go back to June 13, 2018-the day this blog launched into the World Wide Web:

import requests
response = requests.get('https://michaelsprogrammingbytes.com/welcome/')
response.status_code
200

Even from post #1, this blog keeps it 200, OK!

Last but not least, let’s go send an HTTP request to my blog’s Medium home:

import requests
response = requests.get('https://medium.com/@michael71314')
response.status_code
403

Apparently, unlike the other three requests, my Medium page keeps it 403, Forbidden. Not cool Medium, not cool.

In case you didn’t figure it out from the date this post is released, I have one thing to say…

…HAPPY APRIL FOOL’S DAY

• P.S.-Don’t worry, I’ll continue the milestone celebration with an actual big celebratory post-it’ll just be my 201st post! I just thought I could have a little fun with this post being both the annual April Fool’s Day post AND 200th overall post. As always, thanks for reading!