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The first iPhone 18 Pro preorders are reaching customers

The first iPhone 18 Pro preorders are reaching customers as Apple's latest flagship rolls out worldwide. Queues at Apple The Exchange TRX in Kuala Lumpur as the iPhone 18 Pro goes on sale - image credit: Apple. Apple opened iPhone 18 Pro preorders on September 12, ahead of its September 18 release. Customers in the earliest time zones are now among the first to receive their new devices.…

The first iPhone 18 Pro preorders are reaching customers

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Polling versus events for Node background work

[ EXECUTIVE TEARDOWN // TL;DR ] setInterval schedules by start time, so a job slower than its interval overlaps itself and piles up; chain setTimeout instead.

  • SetInterval can cause overlapping tasks and exhaust resources
  • setTimeout creates gaps between runs to prevent overlap
  • Combine events with polling for latency and reliability

OpenSpec Rejected Proposals: A Decision Memory Convention

An agent that proposed and shipped "move persistence into a shared library" six months ago will happily propose it again next quarter unless something durable tells it the idea was already…

  • OpenSpec proposals lack decision memory, making it unclear if ideas were previously declined.
  • /opsx:archive feature does not provide a rejection counterpart to track declined ideas.
  • Decision.md pattern and schema proposed to address decision memory gap without core support.

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