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58 articles
I Asked RPG “Where Are You?” It Returned Eight Zeros
The Air Conditioner Is On. The Cat Wants the Window Open.
I Went to Take Photos of a Laser Engraver. The Cat Became the Star.
Giving My Conversation Partner a Name
I Changed Three Notes and Sent the File Again
My Backup Became a Notebook of New Story Ideas
I Can Make It. But Why Would Someone Choose It?
Making a Boomerang Two Beats Smaller
Reading SQL, Answering in My Own Words
My List of Achievements Grew. My Actual Work Hadn’t.
The Website Loaded. My “Why?” Was Still Open.
We Showed White Blood Cells to AI. The Future Was Already There.
Stronger Security—and Easier Attendance Entry
The Attendance System That Kept Running After Maintenance Stopped
Do Not Digitize the Inconvenience of Paper
What the Parent Company’s Standard Could Not Replace
Why ‘AS/400’ Earned an Instant ‘OK’
The Parent Company Did Not Trust It. The Auditor Did.
Making Forty Days Appear Without Taking Rights Away
A Tunnel with No Exit—Until We Made One
One Executive’s Misunderstanding Shook the Workplace
When the Parent Company Ordered a Rule Change
Attendance Does Not End Until Payroll Is Connected
Calculating One Day of Paid Leave for a Part-Time Employee
The Complaint That Turned Out to Be a Data-Entry Error
How I Actually Explained a Denied Leave Grant
Making ‘Why Didn’t I Receive Paid Leave?’ Explainable
In the End, It Was About Explainability
When Contracted Hours and Reality Drift Apart
Part-Time Work Rarely Follows the Contract Exactly
Measure Part-Time Attendance in Hours, Not Days
The 80% Test for Part-Time Employees
The 80% Attendance Test Was Far Trickier Than It Looked
Paid Leave Was Not ‘Grant It and Forget It’
HOLCOUP in Practice II: Annual Paid Leave
HOLCOUP in Practice I: Special and Substitute Leave
HOLCOUP: The Virtual Leave Card Is Born
The Trap in ‘Just Write the Dates on the Cards’
Dealing the Cards Was Not Enough
Teaching the AS/400 to Play Cards, Part 2
Teaching the AS/400 to Play Cards
Design Begins with Requirements
Leave Management at Super-Saiyan Level
Were the Department Heads Careless?
Even After Digitization, Their Eyes Were Still Strained
The Day HR’s Eyes Turned into Plates
How I Think About Work
By the Way—This System Was Patented.
In the End, the System Spoke Kansai Dialect.
Thirty Minutes Later, the Improvement Was Live.
Rewind the Specimen-Verification Screen.
Never Leave the Exceptions Behind.
I Never Left Safety to Voice Alone.
Why I Made the System Spell Names Out.
Right hand: “Yes.” Left hand: “Next.”
The answer to specimen verification was at a logistics show.
“It’s simple, so no one will make a mistake.” That is the dangerous part.
The AS/400 Wasn’t Slow. Don’t Make It Work 12 Billion Times.