Whoever Had Admin Rights built a home office equipment tracker

“It's faster this way.”— Daniel, Whoever Had Admin Rights

Reason:

Mainly because the lunch prototype is now business critical. Started as Budget2026_FIXED_new.xlsx with a script attached.

Built by:

Daniel, a field technician

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

a REST API generated by something nobody can regenerate

Database:

an Access database called Headcount.xlsm with 16 linked tables

Authentication:

the role is a query parameter

Deployment:

deployed manually because CI/CD "was taking too long"

Responsible:

a team that has since been reorganised

Documentation:

a file called how-it-works-v2-final-final.docx

Security situation:

production secrets are in the frontend bundle

Future disaster:

It will turn out to contain the only correct customer addresses.

Age: 24 days · originally expected to last 3 months · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 24 days ago · original builder left 34 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 308 users, 3 departments depend on it, the builder has left.