The democratization of spreadsheets (News)

电子表格的民主化(新闻)

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2024-11-12

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Changelog Merch is now on sale, IronCalc sets out to democratize spreadsheets, Grant Slatton writes about algorithms we develop software by, Mark Rainey gives respect to the ultimate in debugging, Gitpod is leaving Kubernetes & Johannes Kaufmann’s html-to-markdown converts entire websites into Markdown.

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  • What up nerds?

  • It's your boy.

  • I'm Jared and this is Changelog News for the Week of Monday, November 11, 2024 Merch alert We are doing a first ever year end sale with discounts up to 40% off.

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  • Let's get into this week's news.

  • The Democratization of spreadsheets IronCalc is an MIT licensed work in progress spreadsheet engine written in Rust but usable from a variety of programming languages like Python, JavaScript, VASM, Node, JS and possibly R, Julia or Go.

  • Here is why they're building it quote for over 40 years, spreadsheets have been integral to countless applications.

  • Despite numerous proprietary and open source options, finding a universally accessible, reliable and high quality engine remains a challenge.

  • Many existing solutions are expensive, require accounts, or suffer from performance and stability issues.

  • Our mission?

  • To fill the gaps left by the industry and empower every user with a robust open source spreadsheet engine that can caters to diverse needs, end quote.

  • Their ambition extends beyond code too.

  • They want to drive the spreadsheet industry forward through R and D, community building and an awesome knowledge base.

  • Cool stuff.

  • Algorithms We Develop Software by Grant Slatten outlines a cool feature development method he learned from another engineer.

  • Quote Start working on the feature at the beginning of the day.

  • If you don't finish by the end of the day, delete it and start over the next day.

  • You're allowed to keep unit tests that you wrote.