muesliSpreadsheets, but for people who use CSV and Ctrl+C 😍
"Sheets", a terminal based spreadsheet tool by @maaslalani
Check out the demo, this is pretty amazing!
Jack William BellGiven the first spreadsheet I ever used was VisiCalc and I once dove into the guts of an example terminal-based spreadsheet while teaching myself Turbo Pascal to create one intended for electronic calculations – this seems a bit underwhelming.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VisiCalc
But certainly not stupid.
The 80s had it all figured out.
We just needed a few decades of bloat to appreciate it again 😆
NNN@jackwilliambell @fribbledom @maaslalani
similar, my first consulting job was training staff at a power plant to use Microsoft Multiplan on the Burroughs B22... sort of a Visicalc-wannabe product.
For Linux, we got real 1-2-3 a few years ago, at https://github.com/taviso/123elf
Cool! Lotus 123 was really pretty awesome – because it had powerful macros. And I learned an important lesson about software development from it.
The lesson? A successful software product design is one people can use in ways you never expected or planned for.
How I learned? I downloaded a 123 spreadsheet from a BBS which was a very playable RPG game.
Oblomov@jackwilliambell @fribbledom @maaslalani people interested in these kinds of things may also want to look into visidata. It's not a full-fledged spreadsheet in the traditional sense, but it's an extremely powerful tool to explore existing datasets.
Just a Mr Bill@fribbledom @jackwilliambell @maaslalani Love this! It reminds me of when I was a QA intern at Honeywell in, oh, 1988. Their office programs had word processing, which I understood, and the spreadsheet “Calc” which made absolutely no sense to me. It wasn’t exactly the same as this demo—it was menu driven, not command line, but it looked similar.
Alex@fribbledom @maaslalani I've been an sc-im fan for awhile but this is totally worth a demo and looks very promising.
Nick Silkey 📻 N5ILK 🪓🪵 🪣💧
scriptjunkie@fribbledom @maaslalani ok but I want to know who only charges $30 for phone
Colin
Seth Galitzer@fribbledom @maaslalani The Lotus 123 we could have had
Nigel@fribbledom @maaslalani giving this a test, and wow it is super nice!!!
Does just enough to be useful, with no annoying bloat.
Travis Marble@fribbledom @maaslalani two beautiful things, simple execution of a task with minimal code and no Claude files that I could see. Please no one spoil it if you find one... Let me live in hope
Peter Cock@fribbledom @maaslalani Cute but currently a toy limited to 1000 rows https://github.com/maaslalani/sheets/issues/5
Maas Lalani@pjacock @fribbledom I’ll fix this pretty soon
@maaslalani @fribbledom that’d open up a lot more use cases 👍
@pjacock @fribbledom Made the limit 50k rows, tested with a file that large and it was still pretty smooth!
Paul_IPv6"Spreadsheets, but for people who use CSV and Ctrl+C"
this (and terminal based) totally sold me.
this is why i am probably not the target demographic for most things.
Peter Hull@fribbledom I'm getting ancient vibes of Multiplan on CP/M. 👴 But, well done, it looks useful.
oaktree@fribbledom @maaslalani How does it compare to the good ol' Unix/Linux sc ?
ffuentesI use Excel at work (not great at it btw) but occasionally I need to make calculations at home and it would be great
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