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so can a simple HTML5 page with a jquery script tag
I've always heard of completely devoid out of touch developers but this is the first I've seen it so pronounced.
Ha. You said exactly what was on my mind.
I keep turning my Google Sheets into phone-friendly webapps
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#32Let go of your complex solutions. Spreadsheets were the right answer all along.
I think the mobile form factor has something to say about that. I somewhat agree (reluctantly) for desktop usage, but spreadsheets are too complex to be ergonomic with small touch screens.
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#35I've recently been toying with the idea of turning my overly complicated weightlifting Excel into an overly complicated me-only webapp / testflight app. It can't be worse than Excel for iOS!
This seems like a common predicament. I made this one mostly for myself and to try out VLCN sqlite sync. https://www.dumblift.com
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I've always heard of completely devoid out of touch developers but this is the first I've seen it so pronounced.
Did you skip web design 101? If it’s simple enough, you can absolutely slap it together with jQuery and html.
Time is a valuable resource. This doesn’t simply boil down to one’s abilities—for most of us, opportunity cost is an important factor. If I’m just trying to get some value out of some data, why waste time playing web developer, fighting CSS, dealing with CORS issues, etc., when I could simply use an existing tool that already has my use case covered?
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#37Basically: Guy reinvents MS Access on Google sheets 40 years later.
Disclaim: this is not to say Access is to be despised of or anything. People found its utility for many years and the fact it is not what Boyce/Codd suggested they do with their tables, does not make it irrelevant. There was an article about how it just refuses to die and why. Worth reading for everyone interested in computer and computing history.
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#38I've recently been toying with the idea of turning my overly complicated weightlifting Excel into an overly complicated me-only webapp / testflight app. It can't be worse than Excel for iOS!
This is exactly what I've wanted to do for a long time. All the apps in the app store are money sucking or ad ridden and unnecessarily cluttered. I want a simple front end that lets me log lifts to a sheet/database
I’ve been jotting them down in a standardized format in apple notes and using a regex to parse them into structured json for later analysis.
For all the apps that are supposed to make this easier none of them do it right.
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#39I use Notion databases for this. They're essentially spreadsheets with customizable table, list, kanban views, and each row gets its own wiki-style page in addition to the structured data. So it's nice for lists of books or movies or games, where you have some metadata but you also might want to take notes on it when you read/watch/play. It works pretty well for this purpose, but I also could probably make Obsidian o…
A little know Google product is called Tables[0]. Very similar to what you’re describing.
Another is AppSheet[1] for a more drag and drop application builder.
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so can a simple HTML5 page with a jquery script tag
I've always heard of completely devoid out of touch developers but this is the first I've seen it so pronounced.
The classic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224