Reserve, Then Reconcile: A Token Ledger That Stops a Free-Tier Side Project at the Cap
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A free throughput allowance behaves like a budget only when a program refuses to spend past it. Everything else is a dashboard that reports the overspend after the fact. This build log covers a one-weekend side project: a reservation-based token ledger, roughly 90 lines of Python over SQLite, wrapp…
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Reserve, Then Reconcile: A Token Ledger That Stops a Free-Tier Side Project at the Cap