• 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works
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    everything is possible in excel… someone wrote a DOOM clone in excel.

    I once worked at a company where someone hacked together a PO generating tool in excel 10 years prior and it just kind of stuck around even though the company grew into a billion dollar market cap public company

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      Wrote excels that controlled building automation and heat exchanger settings, collected water and electricity meter data automatically and created bills ready to print and mail to tenants.
      That was about quarter century ago.

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      1 month ago

      Excel is a dev environment for us folks who aren’t 100% sure what a dev environment actually is.

      I’ve at least evolved to the point that I know better options exist, and higher ups should talk to the people who know what those options are and how they can leveraged. Those people are busy, though, so the cycle continues…