Re:To make programming easier, first be conscious of what ma...
by jamii on Friday August 13, 2021 @04:54PM
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Most of the tasks in the article can now be solved by tools like airtable or notion with minimal training. Certainly much less training than would be required to do the same thing using traditional programming tools. So not only is the problem reasonable, we are actually making progress.
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Re:To make programming easier, first be conscious of what ma...
by civilized on Friday August 13, 2021 @05:21PM
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What is airtable capable of these days? Last I checked, years ago, it was mainly an easy way to build and maintain a database.
To be fair, though, a lot of apps are just a database with a CRUD UI
Re:To make programming easier, first be conscious of what ma...
by jamii on Friday August 13, 2021 @05:30PM
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A shared database with permissions and forms covers most of the task in the article. Airtable also now has an event/workflow system and a ton of integrations and plugins for doing stuff like sending email.
https://www.airtable.com/product/views https://www.airtable.com/product/automations https://www.airtable.com/integrations
It's getting to the point where it can handle most of the internal software needs of a small-medium company and also has a ton of javascript hooks for covering that last 20%.