Blog
Thoughts, tutorials, and insights about development, technology, and my experiences.
Brightest Final Days: Reflection, Refinement and Presentation Preparation
Wrapping up my internship with thorough app reviews, final refinements, and preparations for the big presentation to the Brightest team.
Brightest Week 12: Strengthening Foundations and Discovering New Perspectives
A more relaxed week after intense development periods, featuring internal alignment meetings, enriching exchanges with parallel project teams, and planning for upcoming personal projects during vacation.
Brightest Week 11: Code Refactoring & Structural Improvements
This week was dedicated to thorough cleanup of our codebase, improving readability, reusability, and reducing duplication, while also making small but significant UI adjustments and planning for the final testing phase.
Brightest Week 10: Code Generation in TypeScript & C# + Start of Thorough Testing Phase
This week marked a significant milestone as we finalized our code generation functionality for both TypeScript and C#, created a bridge between the UI and code output, and started the comprehensive testing phase of our application.
Brightest Week 9: MongoDB Migration, Microsoft Auth and Context Tweaks
This week we implemented a substantial upgrade to our architecture, completely transitioning from a simple db.json setup to a MongoDB database, while preserving our existing TypeScript API endpoints.
Brightest Week 8: Detailed Documentation, Introduction Video & Quality of Life Upgrades
This week was entirely dedicated to making our project future-proof, with emphasis on extensive documentation, user convenience, and preparing the project for further development by future colleagues at Brightest.
Brightest Week 7: A Deep Dive into Refactoring, Single Source of Truth, Context API and a Completely Renewed UI
This week was perhaps one of the most intensive yet valuable weeks of my internship at Brightest, focusing on deep refactoring, implementing Single Source of Truth principles, using React Context API, and redesigning the UI for optimal user experience.
Brightest Week 6: Modularization, Dashboards and Azure Research
A productive week focused on code refactoring, creating a dashboard layout for code generation, exploring Azure integration for the Brightest portal, and preparing documentation for future implementation.
Brightest Week 5: Small Steps, Big Challenges
A week focused on UI improvements, working through debugging challenges, researching alternative approaches, and planning ahead despite facing some stubborn technical obstacles.
Brightest Week 4: Brown Bag, Job Fair and Minor Updates
A lighter week with small application updates, an informative Brown Bag session about Leapwork, attending a job fair at Antwerp Expo, and wrapping up with minor optimization tasks.
Brightest Week 3: Presentations, Optimizations and a Touch of Madrid
My third week at Brightest featured a productive presentation to the product manager, implementation of UI improvements, code optimization, and a brief trip to Madrid to recharge.
Brightest Week 2: From Mock-ups to 11K Code and Snow Days
My second week at Brightest brought exciting progress: presenting our mock-up, working through unexpected snow days, pushing 11K lines of code, and diving deep into React development.
From Onboarding to Wireframes: My First Week at Brightest
A recap of my first week of internship at Brightest - from onboarding to creating wireframes for a Test Automation UI Framework.