Monthly summary for 2025-08 focusing on reliability and data integrity in the Strapi repository. Key deliverable: Homepage Widget: Correct Published Entries Count (bug fix). The bug caused an incorrect count of published entries displayed on the homepage widget. The fix updates the database query to count distinct document IDs for published entries, ensuring accurate metrics in the widget. Impact: improved dashboard trust, reduced user confusion, and better decision-making for content editors and product managers. Technical highlights: updated DB query, data integrity checks, code changes committed in 9651e7ce335b1eedce44e81fd147eb6d54003319 (PR #24152). Technologies/skills demonstrated: SQL-like query optimization, data integrity, debugging, Git, code review.

July 2025: Focused bug fix in Vega-Lite to align stack and group marks with color domains, improving visual accuracy for stacked and grouped bar charts. Implemented a unit parser method to inject encoding so the color order matches the legend when a color domain is defined and no explicit order is set. This change enhances consistency and reliability for charts using custom color scales, with minimal API impact and clearer data storytelling.