TL;DR : 9 dev.to articles, each 800-1500 words, published in ~60 minutes (with a 35-second rate limit between each). Recipe: paste-ready frontmatter + Claude Code first-draft + dev.to REST API publisher with retry. Full 50-line script included.

What "9 articles in 1 hour" actually means

Not "I wrote 9 articles in an hour." That's impossible.

"I published 9 already-written paste-ready articles in an hour" — the publishing step is the bottleneck, not the writing.

The full pipeline:

Pre-existing : 9 paste-ready files in reports/devto-article-*-paste-ready.md (frontmatter + body)

At the moment : Run devto_publish_batch.py which loops through all 9

Time : 9 × 35-second wait = ~5.25 minutes API time + ~3 minutes for verification

Total wall-clock: ~10 min.

The 1-hour figure includes:

5 min reviewing each paste-ready file before publish

5 min final publishing

30 min updating site/ pages with new LIVE URLs

20 min updating STATUS / RESUME / memory files

So: 60 min wall-clock to ship 9 LIVE articles + all…