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alexjreid

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About alexjreid

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    I think I was posting an open source project of mine too many times (2-3 times different posts on about the same project but different angles) pointing to the same domain. Maybe th…

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    It was my own fault to be fair, should have been more up on the guidelines.

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    This is great insight, thank you. I have recently learnt that being shadow banned doesn't help either, so not sure if you'll see this comment. Either way, great work.

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    Delving deep into novel ways to extend Excel and make it more accessible. Perhaps different approach to copilot in that AI is only used during authoring, the yielded output being a…

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    xllify takes your existing Excel formulas or VBA and produces clean, reusable custom functions packaged as proper add-ins. You can also just describe what you need in plain English…

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    Show HN: xllify turns prompts into Excel functions

    Maintaining large Excel workbooks is dull and thankless work. The situation can be can be somewhat improved with custom functions whose logic can be tested outside of Excel. Tradit…

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    Thank you! Yes they've been around a long while. They perform well and can make use of multiple threads etc. The SDK is pretty old school so best to use a layer on top such as xlli…

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    Show HN: Excel Custom Functions in Zig

    A Zig package for implementing Excel custom functions against the ancient C SDK. This exists because I wanted to learn about Zig's C interop and comptime to see if it was possible …

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