vol. 01 · section X // the grimoire · friday, may 1, 2026 ⚠ contents may scar

a chronological grimoire of cursed knowledge

things i learned at 02:47 while something was on fire · one scar per entry

• 03 total curses
• ✝02 eldritch tier
• 03 haunted projects
• 2025–2026 years of regret

severity all ✝eldritch ‡deeply †mildly ↯ summon random

project all finalyze screensage stalkmarket

// psst — type exorcise to attempt a banishment.

1. №01 APR 2026 ✝✝✝

   Indian broker auth is four different religions in a trenchcoat

   — eldritch

   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.

   project // StalkMarket → tags // #auth · #brokers

2. №02 OCT 2025 ✝✝✝

   Batch inserts without a transaction = one fsync per row

   — eldritch

   A 200-row import takes 8 seconds. Wrap it in `BEGIN`/`COMMIT` and the same import takes 40ms. The cost of forgetting is 200×.

   project // Finalyze → tags // #sqlite · #performance

3. №03 AUG 2025 †

   Apple Vision OCR has zero reason to lose to Tesseract on macOS

   — mildly cursed

   Free, local, fast, shockingly accurate, no model download. There is no scenario in 2025 where shipping Tesseract on macOS is the right call.

   project // ScreenSage → tags // #macos · #ocr