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  • I would love to if all of the most helpful specialized communities didn’t all use it.

    I can’t even get my friends or family to use Matrix/Element, let alone the masses.

    Trust me, I want to make the full switch, but if I’m hanging out on my fancy open source server with no one on it, what’s the point?

    I will agree that anything akin to Facebook or Xitter isn’t helping achieve anything, since they don’t provide communication that can’t be found elsewhere (social updates, memes, event invitations, etc), but for communities like this specifically, there’s just not many other places to go.














  • Company schedule entirely written in Google Sheets. When I originally took the position over, the owner wouldn’t settle for an alternative solution.

    The previous IT person worked there previously for about 10 years and had been compulsively adding features with AppScript the entire time. It was auto sending emails, handling inventory, maintaining project files, you name it. I briefly looked at how it worked and there were easily a dozen script files, a few of which were thousands of lines.

    I was able to replicate most of the important parts of the system that he wanted to replicate in about two weeks in between other work with one script file and something like 50 lines.

    I eventually left for reasons unrelated to the place and only ever had to fix issues once every 6 months or so, which I consider pretty decent for an unattended Google Sheet shared by 5 users.

    I’ve since returned and rebuilt the schedule a second time with a proper database and the whole thing run 10x smoother and more reliably.