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(Python_backup tool) Fixing the Problem Where the App Looked Frozen When You Clicked Quit
We cleaned up two usability issues together: cleanup of network connections on program exit made
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(Python_backup tool) What Adding a 'Download' Feature to the Backup Tool Taught Us About Direction-Agnostic Design
We got a request to add a restore feature to our inhouse "local network storage" backup tool
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(Python_backup tool) Merging a Legacy Script Into the Main App — Using Hash Comparison to Avoid Unnecessary Overwrites
There was a small, separate sync script that had long been used independently in the same
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(Python_backup tool) Adding User Control Over the Auto-Sync Feature
The automatic macro sync feature we integrated just the day before was convenient, but not every
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(Python_backup tool) Fixing a Bug Where a PyInstaller-Packaged Desktop App Resets Its Settings on Every Restart
We packaged an internal filesync desktop utility as an exe for distribution, and ran into a
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(Python_backup tool) From AI-Generated Draft Code to an Internal Backup Tool People Actually Use
We set out to automate a task our team kept doing manually — backing up local folders to network
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(Python_backup tool) Adding Safety Nets to the File Browser — Conflict Detection and Recycle-Bin-Style Deletion
While improving the network folder browser UI used to pick a backup destination, we tackled two
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(WEB_PORTAL) Introducing a Three-Tier Permission System — How to Change a Constraint Without Downtime
We previously had only two permission tiers — regular employee and admin — but the organization's
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(WEB_PORTAL) Blocking Admin Privilege Escalation at the API Level
As a followup to introducing the threetier permission system, we went back and verified — at the
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(WEB_PORTAL) Building a Weekly Work Report Aggregation Feature and Notification System
We moved the weekly work reports that team members used to write as scattered individual documents into the
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(WEB_PORTAL) Building an Integrated Calendar and Syncing with an External Messenger's Calendar
We built an integrated calendar that shows announcements, personal schedules, and approved leave all on a
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(WEB_PORTAL) Improving Leave Request Form UX — Time Selection and Multi-Date Requests
Based on feedback from users who actually used the leave request form, we improved two things.
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(WEB_PORTAL) Adopting PWA in Next.js — When Service Worker Builds Collided with Turbopack
We worked on adding PWA (Progressive Web App) support to our internal web service so that users could add it
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(WEB_PORTAL) Showing Different Features Based on the User's Network Location
This service is designed so that the set of available features differs depending on whether a user connects
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(WEB_PORTAL) Rolling Out Dark Mode Everywhere and Fixing Next.js Image Optimization Warnings
Once the core feature implementation was largely finished, we turned to polishing the overall usability of
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(WEB_PORTAL) Calculating Work Hours on the Server and Exporting Them as Excel
So that the responsible department could aggregate monthly work hours per employee for payroll purposes, we
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(WEB_PORTAL) The First CRUD Feature in the Admin Page — Employee Management Screen
We built a screen that lets admins create, update, and delete employee records. This was the first adminonly
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(WEB_PORTAL) Internal Attendance Management Service — The Day We Switched from a Low-Code Prototype to a Full Web Service
We began building a new hybridstyle attendance and leave management service for internal company use.