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What I Did This week, I continued improving the Rank Emcee module by optimising the bulk update implementation in cdb_client.dart. Instead of fetching each document individually, the new implementation now uses a single bulkDocs() request to retrieve all required documents, merges the changes in memory, and submits everything through a Read more

What I Did This week, I continued improving the Rank Emcee module based on Dr. Shawn’s review. I revised the implementation so that bulkStart() and bulkStop() always retrieve the latest data from CouchDB before performing updates, preventing stale revision conflicts. Both methods now update the event and its performances together Read more

What I Did This week, I started working on the Rank Emcee module. Before implementing the feature, I spent some time understanding how bulk updates in CouchDB work so I could apply the correct approach when updating multiple performances simultaneously. I successfully developed the core components of the module: During Read more

This Week: I visited Dr. Shawn’s house to help set up newly purchased laptops for upcoming EuroAsia competitions. My responsibilities included installing Windows updates and configuring kiosk mode so that users could only access the Sayembara application during events. Besides that, Dr. Shawn introduced me to a potential internship project: Read more

Feeling This Week This week was different from my previous weeks because I was not focused on completing a specific technical task. Instead, I spent time thinking about what I wanted to learn next and how I could contribute more meaningfully during the remainder of my internship. Even during my Read more

Successfully Merging the Debounce LLM Buttons PR This week, I successfully merged the PR for the Debounce LLM Buttons feature. During the review process, Dr. Shawn pointed out an important software engineering principle regarding error handling. Initially, I was detecting Gemini API rate limits through string processing and regular expressions Read more

Successfully Merged Polling Mixin PR This week, I successfully merged another pull request into the develop branch, which focused on fixing and restructuring the polling mixin implementation across controller files. The restructuring process helped make the controllers more organized and consistent compared to before. Working on Debounce LLM Buttons For Read more

Fixing the Classbar Crash Issue This week, I successfully fixed the classbar crash issue that happened during polling updates. After debugging and tracing the issue carefully, I found that the problem came from how VenueObj was being compared. Previously, the comparison used rev, but every time polling refreshed the data Read more

Merging My First “STABLE” PR This week, I successfully raised a pull request for the upgraded version of the application (without the mixin). With guidance from Dr. Shawn, I managed to squash and merge the PR into the develop branch after going through proper checks. As part of the process, Read more