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VBA Has No Right To Be That Powerful
Programming Microsoft Databases Backend
5 days ago 178.2K views 0 shares
VBA Has No Right To Be That Powerful
Nothing humbles a CS graduate with 6 years of experience and a GitHub full of microservices quite like watching Brenda from Accounting unleash her Excel VBA sorcery. While you're debating which framework to use, she's built an entire ERP system with macros and formulas that somehow never breaks. Her Excel sheets communicate better than your team's Slack channel. The funniest part? She learned it all from a weekend workshop in 2003 and calls it "just a little spreadsheet trick."

Pivo Table: The Data Analyst's Happy Hour
Databases Microsoft Windows Programming
8 days ago 101.4K views 0 shares
Pivo Table: The Data Analyst's Happy Hour
The perfect multilingual programming pun doesn't exi-- For the uninitiated, "pivo" means "beer" in several Slavic languages, while PIVOT tables are Excel's data manipulation nightmare fuel. This meme beautifully captures the duality of a data analyst's existence: spending hours wrestling with Excel's PIVOT functionality versus just giving up and having a flight of beers instead. The "or sth, I don't use Excel" is that classic programmer flex - because real developers write SQL queries or Python pandas code instead of clicking through Excel's labyrinthine UI. It's the perfect blend of "I'm too good for spreadsheets" and "I'd rather drink beer than deal with this corporate hell."

Version Control Nightmare
Git Devops Microsoft Programming Debugging
12 days ago 84.2K views 0 shares
Version Control Nightmare
That face when someone suggests replacing Git with Excel. The silent scream of a thousand merge conflicts yet to come. Next they'll propose using PowerPoint for CI/CD pipelines because "it has nice transitions." Some people just want to watch the world burn—one corrupted spreadsheet at a time.

Santa's Database Security Is Coming To Town
Databases Security Microsoft Programming
18 days ago 88.0K views 0 shares
Santa's Database Security Is Coming To Town
Little Tim tried to hack his way onto the nice list with a SQL injection attack, but Santa's not having it. The kid literally tried to use INSERT INTO [NiceList] SELECT * FROM [NaughtyList];-- to move everyone from the naughty list to the nice list. The real kicker? Santa's running his operation on "several dozen interconnected Excel spreadsheets, like a professional." That's the most terrifying part of this whole scenario. Imagine tracking billions of children's moral behavior in Excel. Absolute nightmare fuel for any data engineer.

But Not The Pdf
Linux
24 days ago 86.7K views 0 shares
But Not The Pdf
Content HOW THE CLIENT DESCRIBED THEIR DATA X II Excel TXI THEIR DATA PDF

When AI Offers To Help But Excel Has Other Plans
AI Programming Databases
26 days ago 100.6K views 1 shares
When AI Offers To Help But Excel Has Other Plans
OH. MY. GOD. The sheer AUDACITY of AI assistants these days! 💅 Here I am, trying to make a simple month list in Excel like a functioning adult, and my spreadsheet now thinks March is "Maruary" and we've got "Junuary" instead of June?! Excel's autocomplete has gone ROGUE while AI is sitting there like "Don't worry your pretty little head about it!" EXCUSE ME?! I didn't spend 4 years getting a computer science degree to have an AI assistant patronize me while my spreadsheet turns the calendar into some bizarre parallel universe where every month ends with "-uary"! The struggle is REAL, people!

Excel Is My Database
Databases Microsoft Programming Backend
28 days ago 104.2K views 0 shares
Excel Is My Database
The career trajectory of a self-proclaimed "Database Administrator" who uses Excel instead of proper RDBMS solutions. First frame: driving a Ferrari, confidently waving, peak hubris. Second frame: same Ferrari being towed away—the inevitable system collapse when your 50MB spreadsheet with 17 VLOOKUPs finally corrupts during a critical demo. The technical debt collector has arrived. Should've normalized those tables instead of color-coding cells as your "foreign key strategy."

The World If Excel Encoded CSV Using UTF-8
Microsoft Windows Programming Debugging Databases
1 month ago 85.8K views 0 shares
The World If Excel Encoded CSV Using UTF-8
BEHOLD! The utopian future we were ROBBED of because Excel insists on using Latin-1 encoding for CSV files instead of UTF-8! 🙄 We could've had flying cars, space elevators, and gleaming futuristic cities, but NOOO! Instead, we're stuck debugging weird characters like "é" and "’" every time someone dares to use a non-English character in their spreadsheet! The AUDACITY of Microsoft to keep us in the dark ages with their encoding choices! This is why we can't have nice things, people!

Tariffs On Your Spreadsheets
Databases Programming Backend
1 month ago 117.8K views 0 shares
Tariffs On Your Spreadsheets
BREAKING: The data economy just hit a WALL! 💀 Imagine thinking your innocent little comma-separated values were exempt from international trade wars! The horror! Your precious spreadsheet data now costs 25% more to import because SOMEONE decided CSV files are a national security threat. Data analysts everywhere are SCREAMING into their mechanical keyboards right now. Next thing you know, they'll be taxing JSON and XML too! Is nothing sacred anymore?! The digital apocalypse is upon us!

Is There A Cure For Management?
Agile Devops Programming
1 month ago 84.8K views 0 shares
Is There A Cure For Management?
The slow, horrifying realization that your days of crafting elegant code are being replaced by endless status updates and spreadsheet wrangling. One day you're debugging a complex algorithm, the next you're scheduling your fifth meeting about the meeting you had yesterday. The transformation into management isn't a promotion—it's a curse that feeds on your technical soul until all that remains is an empty husk that says things like "let's circle back" and "we need to sync up."

Things To Remove From Your Life
Python Math Programming
1 month ago 122.7K views 0 shares
Things To Remove From Your Life
When data scientists discover Python and R, they look at their old statistical software tools like they're finding flip phones in a drawer. Excel, STATA, SPSS, SAS, EViews, and Minitab—once the pride of statistics departments everywhere—now just expensive relics taking up memory and sanity. The real joke is that universities still charge students thousands to learn these dinosaurs while industry moved on years ago. Nothing says "I hate myself" quite like paying $8000 for a STATA license when pandas is right there, free, and won't make you want to throw your laptop into traffic.

Version Control Nightmare
Git Devops Agile Programming
1 month ago 97.9K views 0 shares
Version Control Nightmare
Oh. My. God. The AUDACITY! Someone just casually announced they're abandoning Git for... EXCEL?! 💀 That face in the bottom panel is literally every developer's soul leaving their body. It's the universal "did I just hear what I think I heard?" expression when someone suggests replacing a sophisticated version control system with spreadsheet hell. Next up: "We're replacing our database with Post-it notes for better visualization" or "Let's code in crayon because the colors are prettier!" I simply cannot with this level of tech blasphemy!