Case file № 005 · Internal Tools · 2024
Paper Trail
An internal audit-log viewer that turned 'grep the JSON' into 'read the story' for a four-person operations team.
- Timeline
- Oct 2024 — Nov 2024
- Stack
- React · PostgreSQL · Tailwind CSS
- Source
- Repository ↗
Chapter I
The Brief
An internal audit-log viewer that turned 'grep the JSON' into 'read the story' for a four-person operations team.
Chapter V
The Results
- 0 sec
- Lookup time
- −0%
- Escalations reduced
Chapter VI
Colophon
Appendix A — The stack
frontend
- React ↗
Timeline virtualised — some entities have thousands of events.
- Tailwind CSS ↗
Dense, legible, and built in a fortnight.
backend
- PostgreSQL ↗
The log was already there; the tool is one good query away.
Case file № 005 · filed October 2025 · typeset in Fraunces & Source Serif