I Will Dropkick You If You Use A Spreadsheet

"Programming is just Excel without the boxes" - Real Civil Engineer

I remember watching a manager at work, enter a bunch of values into a column. Then get out a calculator and calculate the total and put that number on the final cell.

"Excel is not a database" Hank Hill: "If those governments could read they'd be very upset

During the COVID pandemic UK government contractors used old version of spreadsheet to do COVID tracing. They lost tens of thousands of records because they reached the limit of 65536 lines.

Spreadsheets DO have a use-case. Just not as a back end or as a stand-in database.

This author clearly has never worked at a company where it takes 6 months to get IT to setup a database.

"I spreadsheeted really hard" The past tense of spreadsheet is spreadshat

I work on a mobile game played by millions. They made the specific decision to move TO using google sheets as the source of game data like assets, IAPs and so much more. They were so proud of it they wrote a blog post about it. Now if anyone updates one of the spreadsheets it forces every player globally to restart the game. As a previous data engineer... it makes me so sad

Excel, the most commonly used distributed database.

19:52 dev: "But it works on my machine" company: "but are you going to give your computer to the client?" dev: "yes, I don't want to rewrite this thing"