Now - Friday 5 dec.

Automating Chaos Into Clarity

Over the past days I’ve been deep in a full-scale cleanup and automation sprint: decoding broken UTF-8 filenames, restructuring hundreds of applicant folders, fixing corrupted downloads, removing junk files, and building custom Python scripts to put everything back into perfect order.

What began as a messy archive of inconsistent names, duplicate files, broken PDFs, and server issues has now become a clean, structured, fully automated workflow. Every PDF lands in the right folder, every name is correctly encoded, and every step—from download to organization—is reproducible with a single command.

A small reminder of how powerful it is to take a chaotic system, break it apart, and rebuild it into something clear, elegant, and reliable.

Order restored. Automation engaged. Onward.