Keep the Extra Capacity Out of Your Baseline — Burning Backlog During the Time-Boxed +50% Weekly Limit
Claude Code's weekly limits are raised 50% until July 13. A design for spending the temporary headroom only on finite backlog work: an expiry-aware burst queue, a dual-lane ledger, and a single ratio that tells you whether your baseline quietly grew.
Higher Rate Limits Don't Mean Tighter Schedules — Spend the Headroom on 429 Recovery
When Claude Code's rate limits went up, the instinct was to pack the schedule tighter. Here's why I did the opposite and routed the new headroom into retry budget instead — a pacing note for unattended pipelines.
Using Claude Code's /loop and Cron Scheduling as a Background Worker — What I Learned
A hands-on record of folding Claude Code's /loop command and cron-style scheduling into everyday personal-project tasks. Covers the basic syntax, the gotchas I only found by using it — tasks that vanish after 3 days, tasks that fire only when idle — and how to decide what belongs on a real cron instead.