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A missed slot at 09:00 should not silently vanish: building past-due grace into the article pipeline publisher
The `schedule_sweep` runs on a laptop. Laptops sleep. Without a grace policy, an article scheduled for 09:00 silently strands when the machine wakes at 09:07. Sprint 6 of B-schedule — past-due grace plus 48-hour hard-expire — turns that silent drop into a recoverable state with a reason, an audit trail, and a path back to publish.
The classifier is the product: how four branches replaced an inbox
Inbox Hub is five SQLite tables, twelve route handlers, four Shadow DOM components, and a launchd cron. Strip those away and what remains is a four-branch decision tree that runs on every message. Everything else is plumbing around that core.
monkeypatch lies to you when your tests run in subprocesses
The fixture looked correct. The patch was applied. The subprocess ignored all of it and wrote to the real registry. Three days of roadmap work taught me that monkeypatch only rebinds the parent process — env-var overrides are the only isolation that survives a fork.
The backtick that could run anything: hardening AppleScript shell escaping
A Sprint 2.11 review flagged a shell command-substitution gap in a single Python helper. Backticks and dollar signs were passing through unescaped into a double-quoted `do script` string, meaning a crafted issue title could execute arbitrary code. The fix was four lines. Understanding why it mattered took longer.