Martin Leduc @decimalturn.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Finally managed to get a npm package that gets all green chips on @socket.dev 🥳 The hardest part was to get the weekly downloads to 50k-60k, so it wouldn't be flagged as unpopular. The rest was pretty easy since the package has zero dependencies. 152
Reposted by Martin LeducJimmy Bogard @jimmybogard.com · 02/05/2026my favorite kind of GH issue on an OSS project i own github.com/jbogard/Mong...github.comDeprecate this package · Issue #53 · jbogard/MongoDB.Driver.Core.Extensions.DiagnosticSourcesMongoDB.Driver 3.7+ brings native support for Activities/OpenTelemetry. The registration is as simple as. tracer.AddSource("MongoDB.Driver") Ref: https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-csharp-driver/blob... 061
Martin Leduc @decimalturn.bsky.social · 27/04/2026That's how you know a package is good, it has a negative number of issues! 100
Martin Leduc @decimalturn.bsky.social · 21/04/2026True intelligence would be knowing that I don't need this one line email to be "summarized". 000
Martin Leduc @decimalturn.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Weirdest randomly generated GitHub codespace name I've got so far... What's yours? 000
Martin Leduc @decimalturn.bsky.social · 24/02/2026How I felt when I discovered TOML v1.1's release... I guess if you can't beat them, join them! 110
Martin Leduc @decimalturn.bsky.social · 30/01/2026Nice documentary. It's always good to have a term to qualify what you aspire to: local-first. The cloud-only approach is still going strong, but the next wave is already brewing... www.youtube.com/watch?v=10d8...youtube.comLocal-First Software: Taking Back Control of Our Data | a mini-docYouTube video by CultRepo 000
Martin Leduc @decimalturn.bsky.social · 27/01/2026The nice thing about the determinism believers club is that you don't have to say sorry when you're late to the meeting. 020
Reposted by Martin LeducMartin Leduc @decimalturn.bsky.social · 01/10/2025This demo tells me the real gain in productivity is not quite there yet. Also it makes rookie mistakes like merging cells 🤢 www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wgu...youtube.comExcel Agent Mode For Creating New Spreadsheet - Episode 2709YouTube video by MrExcel.com 1142
Martin Leduc @decimalturn.bsky.social · 23/07/2025The fact that Zürich's Zoo is not called Zoorich is such a missed opportunity! 000
Reposted by Martin LeducAlex Power[s] @itsnotaboutthecell.com · 01/06/2025Mom update. She used #Copilot to learn how use the Developer tab in #Excel and started recording tons of #VBA macros. She said she took a task that would take her hours down to seven minutes. “It gives me confidence to try new things, I’m watching a lot less YouTube now” Times are a changin’ 1161
Martin Leduc @decimalturn.bsky.social · 09/05/2025I tried to summarize how line endings normalization work in Git and this was the best I could do. 120
Martin Leduc @decimalturn.bsky.social · 18/04/2025plrank.com is a programming language ranking that aggregates other rankings and VBA has been performing surprisingly well lately, slowly climbing up the top 20. The main driving force for VBA's popularity remains the number of new questions on Stack Overflow. 010
Martin Leduc @decimalturn.bsky.social · 15/04/2025Congrats to @jonathanleroux.bsky.social for achieving 1k ⭐ on GitHub with IguanaTex! 140
Martin Leduc @decimalturn.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Finally some DevOps tooling for VBA developers github.com/DecimalTurn/... #DevOps #VBA #CICDgithub.comGitHub - DecimalTurn/VBA-Build: Build VBA-Enabled Office documents from source code using GitHub Actions.Build VBA-Enabled Office documents from source code using GitHub Actions. - DecimalTurn/VBA-Build 010
Martin Leduc @decimalturn.bsky.social · 26/03/2025The editing on this is so polished, it almost makes you forget that the Excel logo inside the VBA editor is still from Excel 2003. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rOM...youtube.comWhat is VBA? | VBA Explained in 2 Minutes For BEGINNERS.YouTube video by Zero To Mastery 100
Reposted by Martin LeducJen Gentleman @jenmsft.bsky.social · 20/03/2025I want this more than I probably should 8372781010
Martin Leduc @decimalturn.bsky.social · 05/03/2025The RTE for Gmail signatures is probably the worst one I've had to deal with so far. It keeps messing up the formatting when copying from Google Docs AND from Word with no way to make the needed adjustments 😮💨 I had to resort to editing the HTML directly from devtools to make it work 😅 000
Martin Leduc @decimalturn.bsky.social · 14/01/2025I might switch back to using "colour" as a sign of Canadian patriotism in these trying times. 000
Martin Leduc @decimalturn.bsky.social · 07/01/2025Posting and answering your own Stack Overflow question immeditely is an underrated way to flex. 000
Reposted by Martin LeducJeff “Now I am become AI Slop” Weir @insightsmachine.bsky.social · 21/11/2024I used to do a lot of incredible labour saving stuff with Excel VBA back in the day, and it pains me that now I’m a Clicky Clicky Draggy Droppy #PowerBI zombie. I’m almost at the stage if throwing in the towel on this career, because I’m sooo tired of this. 241
Reposted by Martin LeducPookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 26/12/2024It's funny that nowadays any really serious hobby eventually leads to you using and mastering spreadsheets. 1373948418
Reposted by Martin Leductrunks @trunksahoy.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Once had a job where IT disabled macros on every PC for security reasons. It was like Prohibition. People bringing in computers off-network, smuggling macro-enabled files on thumb drives, a black market in LibreOffice code conversion. Good times. 1232
Martin Leduc @decimalturn.bsky.social · 15/12/2024My Excel pivot table broke without any error message. Turns out a date filter will just stop working without any further notice if you have a non-date value in your column. PS: btw, November 31st doesn't exist. 000
Reposted by Martin LeducJustin Long @nitsuj116.bsky.social · 27/11/2024I want a pop quiz option for replies where you have to answer questions about the post to reply :) Also applies to email. 4483
Martin Leduc @decimalturn.bsky.social · 26/11/2024The fact that sorting alphabetically and by date give the same result is just one more reason to adopt the ISO 8601 format. 051
