One of the best tiny programs I wrote in half hour was to help my office mate automate his manual copy & paste of sample IDs to generate barcodes, aggregate the

One of the best tiny programs I wrote in half hour was to help my office mate automate his manual copy & paste of sample IDs to generate barcodes, aggregate them in 10 nos boxes and send them out. He had allocated the entire day to do this manual labour for 3800 samples. I showed up, asked if I could help, and wrote a simple python script that would read the excel doc with all sample IDs and prepare printable PDFs with 10 barcodes each that he can simply stick on the box. The whole thing was over in 45 mins, and his mind was blown. He had been doing this manually about once a month for decades ;-) I have moved on from that job, but have given him an executable on his laptop that will read an excel file of a specific name and print out the PDF the same way. It is his treasure now :-)