vol. 01·section X // the grimoire·saturday, jul 25, 2026⚠ contents may scar
things i learned at 02:47 while something was on fire·one scar per entry
// psst —type exorciseto attempt a banishment.
A scheduled workflow is not guaranteed to run at the specified time. Jobs can be delayed—or even dropped—during periods of high load, especially at the start of the hour. Pick an odd minute, make the job idempotent, and use an external scheduler when timing is a requirement rather than a preference.
Angel One = TOTP. Upstox + Zerodha = OAuth. Groww = API keys. There is no unified standard, and there will not be one. Hide the chaos behind a provider interface and refresh tokens proactively — never wait for the 401.
A 200-row import takes 8 seconds. Wrap it in `BEGIN`/`COMMIT` and the same import takes 40ms. The cost of forgetting is 200×.
Free, local, fast, shockingly accurate, no model download. There is no scenario in 2025 where shipping Tesseract on macOS is the right call.