2026-01 monthly summary for the foodplanner-api focusing on containerization and data persistence improvements. Delivered a targeted feature to configure the PostgreSQL data directory by introducing the PGDATA environment variable in the docker-compose setup, enabling explicit control over the data directory across environments. This enhances deployment flexibility, data persistence consistency, and overall reliability of the containerized service.

November 2025 highlights for aau-giraf/foodplanner: Stabilized the app with a stability pass and API modernization that reduces runtime issues, improves onboarding, and enables safer multi-role access control. Delivered guardian/pupil role support, modernized codebase through naming/style refactors, replaced deprecated meal services, and performed a Dart version upgrade. These changes reduce technical debt, improve maintainability, and enable smoother backend integration while delivering tangible business value across login/meal flows and feature delivery.

October 2025: Delivered a reproducible, developer-friendly environment and modernized codebase for the foodplanner projects, delivering tangible business value through faster onboarding, more stable local development, and cleaner, more maintainable code.