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nathanstitt

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About nathanstitt

Hi, I'm Nathan Stitt. a software developer and creator of many things. Engineering manager at OpenStax.org, a large educational non-profit

I own a consulting company Argosity.com and write primarily Ruby, go, client-side JS, and iOS stuff.

Contributor to OpenStax, DocumentCloud and various other open source projects: https://github.com/nathanstitt.

My email is @.org

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    Comment #48712848

    Great feedback, that makes complete sense. I've just added https://tinycld.org/story which expounds on this a bit more and also links to the credits page that lists all the (many) …

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    Comment #48698436

    It's pretty simple: I have a small company and we're using it internally. my hope by releasing it is that the ecosystem will grow and it'll become the best way to publish web apps …

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    Comment #48693236

    Also not affiliated but my open-source tinycld uses docx as the backend storage for its text package. Supports _most_ of the features (including comments and suggestions) but is st…

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    Comment #48311073

    Yes, absolutely. All agents seem to know how to talk to the Pocketbase API without telling them much about it if you're wanting to directly interact with tables. We also have https…

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    Comment #48310591

    HyperFormula was the key to unlocking the entire spreadsheet, the technical foundation of sparse rendering and multi-user interactions were easy enough with Yjs and and a few other…

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    Comment #48310531

    Yea I really did want to go Nextcloud because it is the battle tested solution as you note, but a few things held me back. * It's UI felt dated - which I agree is not an entirely g…

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    Comment #48301318

    yep very true, everyone has their preferred stack, and greenfield is _always_ easier than maintaining years worth of past code. I did look really closely at Nextcloud when it came …

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    Comment #48301056

    hah, so I've been fighting AI all the time as it tries to write all this on it's own vs re-using libraries. To me that's a much safer option, because the libraries all pre-date AI …

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    Comment #48300957

    Sorry it didn't work :( I just tried and looks like it got _so close_, it did undo the insertion of values, but the selection remained. I think that's probably debatable behavior, …

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    Comment #48300799

    yes, I'm planning to support it indefinitely - my company (~10 users) just started using it so we're very invested in it's success. I'd love for people to write whatever crazy pack…

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    Comment #48300534

    Hey, I just made https://github.com/tinycld/mail/pull/2 which mostly implements this. Am leaving it as PR until I can fully test it out

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    Comment #48300221

    Interesting, I wasn't aware that SES did inbound and it looks fairly affordable as well. I'll have to do this, thanks for mentioning it

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    Comment #48299920

    Yes, Hyperformula is amazing! it's actually the primary reason TinyCld is AGPL vs MIT, doing so was totally worth it in order to be compatible with it's GPL3 license.

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    Comment #48299889

    Good question, TinyCld does uses docx/xlsx files on the drive package as the native storage for text/calc. Drive is exported via webdav so doing so lets native clients load the fil…

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    Comment #48297985

    thanks! it also has the ability for user themes but they are fairly weak. really only supports setting color swatches

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    Comment #48297944

    currently only supports postmark but based on the conversions here i’m thinking expanding that will probably be the next thing i implement

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    Comment #48297921

    yep i know postmark wont be everyone’s fave. i’ve abstracted all that to a single golang interface so it’d be easy to swap out. i’ll probably write a pure SMTP version as an exampl…

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    Comment #48297206

    yes, I should make this clearer: You do not actually host the email, tinycld uses a transactional host for sending and receiving. I also have a lot of scars from doing that in the …

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    Comment #48297178

    Yes, exactly that. Personally I have several small (tiny really) companies where employees wear a few hats in them, this setup allows me to add people to org (and email domain) A &…

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    Comment #48296696

    excellent, I've also tried all the products you mention but they all felt either too heavy or limited to me. I'd love any feedback you can offer, GitHub issues are open if you hit …

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    Comment #48295111

    Hey all, Nathan here, I'm the author. I wrote TinyCld because Google in their infinite wisdom decided to cancel my 20 year old free Google Apps suite for "commercial usage". Which,…

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    Comment #48237059

    Hey all, Nathan here, I'm the author. I wrote TinyCld because Google in their infinite wisdom decided to cancel my 20 year old free Google Apps suite for "commercial usage". Which,…

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