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Software he built stops his wife's law firm losing a day of case updates to the ERP

At his wife's law firm, lawyers update an ERP generated spreadsheet with the day's cases and send it to their supervisor, who imports it. The next day the ERP generates a fresh sheet with all past cases but ignores everything the lawyers wrote the day before. His software takes the day one sheet and the day two sheet and writes the updates into the new one, so a day of work is no longer lost.

How it works

  1. Lawyers fill the day one sheet
  2. ERP generates a fresh day two sheet without their updates
  3. His software merges the two
  4. The aligned sheet goes back to the supervisor

Why it’s worth knowing

The bug is so ordinary it is invisible: a system that forgets yesterday. His fix is one merge, run every day.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on reddit.com. See the original ↗

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