move stuff around until it feels right

helpers/retry-with-timeout.ts

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+import { setTimeout } from "node:timers/promises"
+
+const maxTime = 500
+const waitPeriod = 50
+
+export async function retryWithTimeout<T>(
+  callback: () => Promise<T> | T,
+): Promise<T> {
+  const startTime = Date.now()
+  // eslint-disable-next-line no-constant-condition
+  while (true) {
+    try {
+      return await callback()
+    } catch (error) {
+      if (Date.now() - startTime > maxTime) {
+        throw error
+      }
+      await setTimeout(waitPeriod)
+    }
+  }
+}