Mity Cheese @mitycheese.bsky.social · 23/06/2025If Excel is the most reliable item in your stack, you may be in trouble. 100
AW Stiles @awstiles.bsky.social · 22/06/2025We're using a new data management software created for the state of North Carolina and a frequent answer when we hit a problem is "just download the spreadsheet". Mind you this is software that doesn't seem to be anything improved from the 2010s. 090
Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 22/06/2025This is the fatal flaw of ai chatbots if we’re being real; not only black boxed but also resistant to replicable results. Which is a feature for those who make money off them but a flaw for everyone else. 615213
Confused Penguin @confusedpenguin.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Team Janet here. Go Janet! (Nothing to do with running several Excel tools covering things that our dashboards do not seem to cover efficiently enough :D) 020
Hogesonline @hogesonline.bsky.social · 23/06/2025I guess you can call me Janet. Or maybe I have an Amanda-stack. 010
rui boom ⋰˚☆ @ruiboom.bsky.social · 23/06/2025This *exact* thing is *literally* happening at my workplace at the moment. 000
dp_meandering @djbp.bsky.social · 23/06/2025So good until MS breaks the macros two weeks after Janet retires, then again they would probably break the AI even faster. 040
🄼🄴🄴🄷🄰🅆🄻 ⭕ @meehawl.com · 23/06/2025Janet also weaponized GDPR: www.tiktok.com/@jasonsmithc...tiktok.comJanet submitted a Subject Access Request for every mention of her name since 2015. Four inboxes collapsed. The shared drive crashed. One HR manager was found crying in the stairwell. Janet returned th...TikTok video by Jason | Consultant 140
E-Something @nullinterface.bsky.social · 22/06/2025Did this once. Relied upon static reference data that required updating on the regular. Documented the F out of it before I walked away; about 100 the successor glanced over the docs but doubt it was ever used again because Excel-as-a-DB don't scale well past the initial designer. 020
Very Human Robot @jwatte.bsky.social · 24/06/2025Excel is the world's most widespread functional reactive programming environment! 030
Commie Machinist @commiemachinist.bsky.social · 22/06/2025I'd just love it if this was true and not a joke or something. 430
Radical Left Lemmasmith @k8bowers.bsky.social · 24/06/2025Lots of opportunity to create fancy reports from our relational databases, but people don’t want the reports. They want the data in a form that they can manipulate, explore, and interrogate themselves. They want a spreadsheet. 010
Gamebird @gamebyrd.bsky.social · 23/06/2025One is beautiful, one is functional. Well. I know which one I'd be using and it's the one that works. 030
RobAtl @scrumrob.bsky.social · 23/06/2025I've been in IT since 1981. I've seen this same type situation over and over. My employer is doing the same thing. The older tech works just fine and is very stable. The new tech generates dozens of support tickets per day, plus new tech has gaping security vulnerabilities like a newborn's immunity. 2100
