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Re:The Static Site Paradox by Stoids on Tuesday October 08, 2024 @04:23PM (#41781483)
I do consulting for a few restaurants, and despite my experience building full-stack web applications, I find myself reaching for Excel for most of my deliverables. These are "applications" that "non-technical" restaurant operators need to be comfortable in. Having a sheet where they paste in some data and get their needed output has required the least amount of continued maintenance and training. They can drag the file around in Dropbox / Google Drive and that works for them.

I still try to "engineer" to the best of my ability—separating raw input from derived data from configuration, data normalization, etc. With Lambda functions in Excel now, I kinda just pretend I'm writing Lisp in an FRP editor / runtime environment. The ETL tools with PowerQuery are quite good for the scale that these restaurants operate at.

Hard for me to turn off my brain in my full-time job when I am tasked with poorly recreating a feature that Excel nailed years ago.

Re:The Static Site Paradox by EasyMark on Tuesday October 08, 2024 @09:08PM (#41783473)
You can create web pages in excel??
Re:The Static Site Paradox by swiftcoder on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @05:04AM (#41785876)
These are presumably more along the lines of custom inventory management software
Re:The Static Site Paradox by jasonkester on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @01:36AM (#41784812)
It’s a shame that Access died, because that’s what you would have built this in 25 years ago, and it would have been better for your client in every respect.
Re:The Static Site Paradox by rekabis on Saturday October 12, 2024 @03:07AM (#41817053)
> It’s a shame that Access died

Gesundheit? It’s still in Office 365 (subscription) and Office 2024 Pro (standalone).