Cron Is Stateless. Your Mortgage Isn't.

I’ve been working on WealthRelay, an API venture I built from the ashes of my old MarketRacoon code, pivoting what used to be a consumer portfolio tracker into a B2B solution. Somewhere along the way I had to admit something uncomfortable: I was using cron wrong. Not “wrong flag” wrong - conceptually wrong. The tell: fortnightly The feature that forced the realization was recurring schedules: automated deposits, loan repayments, interest runs. And the single most requested shape for those is the one banks use for mortgages: fortnightly. ...

July 12, 2026 · 6 min · Erwan Joly