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Re:Stop Using Excel, Finance Chiefs Tell Staffs on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @09:39AM (#15757056)
While we're talking about Excel:

Are there any good tools available for version control and/or diffing of spreadsheets?

If my coworker updates a formula in cell E3 and emails it to be, is there any way for me to know what changed?

Re:Audacity 2.2.0 Released on Friday November 03, 2017 @05:26PM (#15622308)
What other free-as-in-beer software do you use to produce music?
Re:The art of over-engineering your side projects on Friday September 01, 2017 @12:44PM (#15150118)
Agreed. Having a deployment pipeline in place dramatically reduces the friction of returning to an old project.

I have a back-burner project that touch very infrequently, but I can jump in, make a quick change, and have it deployed to "production" in just a few seconds.

Re:Ask HN: What tools do you use to manage your life? on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @04:26PM (#14799791)
Agreed on Trello for everything.

I have separate "teams" to sort my many different boards for my work-related notes, my side-business notes, and my family-related notes.

Planning out meals a week at a time also makes grocery shopping simple and painless.