Mastodawn

🖥️ Ah, yes, the riveting tale of how spreadsheets—those glorified tables that haunt our work lives—came to be. #VisiCalc, the "GameBoy game" of its time, apparently revolutionized #computing with its primitive charm and jaw-dropping 16K RAM requirement. 🙄 One can only imagine the thrill of rebuilding a 1979 relic while the rest of us are busy enjoying the luxury of actual modern technology. 😂
https://zserge.com/posts/visicalc/ #spreadsheets #techhistory #nostalgia #HackerNews #ngated

VisiCalc reconstructed

Building a minimal VisiCalc clone from scratch in C to understand how spreadsheets work.

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P3KO | Petrified activist 🐧Mar 15

Nehän toimii,
annoin vielä osan skripteistä chatGPT lle vertaisarvioitaviksi ja sain siltä muutaman kehitysehdotuksen

Vielä pitäis kirjoituttaa pari copy-paste rutiinia, ennenkuin laitan kaikki ketjuun yhden napin taakse - työn / tehtävän tarkka kuvaaminen ja sitä seuraava pitkä debug on ne haastavimmat, muistisairaan hoivaamisen ohella

#F1PP #Formula1 #Gemini #ChatGPT #Google #AppScript #Tekoäly #taulukkolaskenta #SpreadSheets

N-gated Hacker News Mar 14

🎩🤡: When the data you depend on is as reliable as a politician's promise, the MIT Sloan #wizards have the solution: become a wizard yourself with one of their endless #MBA programs! 🔍📉 Because when numbers don't add up, it's time to swap #spreadsheets for #philosophy scrolls and hope for #magic. 🧙‍♂️✨
https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/what-happens-when-us-economic-data-becomes-unreliable #datareliability #MITsloan #HackerNews #ngated

What happens when US economic data becomes unreliable | MIT Sloan

MIT Sloan

N-gated Hacker News Mar 10

🎉 Woohoo! Another #Ruby #gem promising to make #Excel docs ✨beautiful✨ without needing a PhD in ECMA specs. Because clearly, the world cries out for more "stylish" #spreadsheets that come with the added excitement of #schema validation! 🧐📊
https://github.com/caxlsx/caxlsx #Stylish #Validation #Developer #Tools #HackerNews #ngated

GitHub - caxlsx/caxlsx: xlsx generation with charts, images, automated column width, customizable styles and full schema validation. Axlsx excels at helping you generate beautiful Office Open XML Spreadsheet documents without having to understand the entire ECMA specification. Check out the README for some examples of how easy it is. Best of all, you can validate your xlsx file before serialization so you know for sure that anything generated is going to load on your client's machine.

xlsx generation with charts, images, automated column width, customizable styles and full schema validation. Axlsx excels at helping you generate beautiful Office Open XML Spreadsheet documents...

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Neuronus Computing Mar 9

Your #Spreadsheets probably include sensitive financial information, business data, and personal information.

That information should not be analyzed and made into money.

NeuroSheet provides a secure environment to work on your data with privacy in mind, not profit.

#NeuroSheet #SecureSpreadsheets #DataPrivacy #EncryptedWorkspace #PrivateProductivity #Neuronus

controlc Mar 7

I both love and hate spreadsheets. I love their flexibility but hate their UI. Putting any sort of code in a one line cell editor is wretched.

#spreadsheets #ttrpg

Dr. Martin Mundschenk Mar 4

Excel und andere #Spreadsheets sind für mich die größten Automatisierungsverhinderer in Organisationen. Ich nutze sie höchstens für Wegwerf-Tabellen. Alles, was komplexer ist oder Massendaten verarbeitet, gehört in Microservices – z. B. in #Python oder #JavaScript. GUI-basierte Tabellen bremsen Automatisierung und lassen sich schlecht in Workflows integrieren. Moderne #IT sollte solche Aufgaben als Code lösen. #Digitalisierung #Automatisierung #VibeCoding

ResearchBuzz: Firehose Feb 25

Google Workspace Updates: Two new functions in Google Sheets. “We are adding two new functions to Google Sheets, =SHEET and =SHEETS. These additions help users manage and reference spreadsheets with multiple tabs more effectively.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/25/google-workspace-updates-two-new-functions-in-google-sheets/

Google Workspace Updates: Two new functions in Google Sheets

Google Workspace Updates: Two new functions in Google Sheets. “We are adding two new functions to Google Sheets, =SHEET and =SHEETS. These additions help users manage and reference spreadshee…

ResearchBuzz: Firehose

Longreads Feb 24

The NCAA has those commercials...about how most athletes go pro in something other than sports. But in Vegas, most of these students, many of them finance majors, will go pro in spreadsheeting." —Jesse Dougherty for The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/interactive/2026/college-excel-spreadsheet-championships/?src=longreads #sports #spreadsheets #excel #athletes #longreads

Between the sheets at the college Excel championships

One of the most unusual — and fun — events in college sports is a high-stakes spreadsheeting competition in Las Vegas.

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Efstathios Iosifidis, DVM Feb 19

🆓 Θέλετε να γίνετε power user στα υπολογιστικά φύλλα;

Είτε είστε λάτρης του Excel είτε προτιμάτε open source εναλλακτικές, οι φόρμουλες είναι η καρδιά κάθε υπολογιστικού φύλλου. Στο νέο άρθρο, αναλύουμε 12 δημοφιλείς τύπους με παραδείγματα στο @ONLYOFFICE Spreadsheet Editor.

Μάθετε πώς να χρησιμοποιείτε:
🔹 SUM & AVERAGE
🔹 IF & VLOOKUP
🔹 INDEX & MATCH
🔹 Και πολλούς ακόμα!

Δείτε τον αναλυτικό οδηγό εδώ 👇
🔗 https://www.onlyoffice.com/blog/el/2026/02/popular-spreadsheet-formulas-a-guide

#ONLYOFFICE #FOSS #OpenSource #Spreadsheets #Tech

Δημοφιλείς τύποι υπολογιστικών φύλλων | ONLYOFFICE Blog

Ανακαλύψτε τους πιο δημοφιλείς τύπους για υπολογιστικά φύλλα. Ένας πρακτικός οδηγός με παραδείγματα για SUM, VLOOKUP, INDEX & MATCH στο ONLYOFFICE.

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