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How Do You Do Fellow Programmers
Programming Algorithms
29 days ago 7.6M views 0 shares
How Do You Do Fellow Programmers
Oh honey, Excel is out here putting on a costume and crashing the programmer party like it's some kind of coding language. Newsflash: being able to write formulas and maybe a macro doesn't make you Turing Complete, sweetie! But wait... it actually IS Turing Complete, which is the most chaotic plot twist in computer science history. You can technically compute ANYTHING in Excel if you hate yourself enough. So now we're all stuck pretending Excel is "just a spreadsheet" while it's literally capable of running Doom or simulating a neural network. The absolute AUDACITY. Meanwhile, we're updating our CVs like "Proficient in Python, JavaScript, and... *whispers* Excel" because every job posting demands it and we all know 90% of corporate programming is just fancy Excel sheets anyway. The villain origin story nobody asked for.

Or Is It
Databases Programming Backend
1 month ago 47.1M views 0 shares
Or Is It
Every developer's soul when someone in the meeting says "Excel is not a database." You nod confidently, agreeing with this objectively correct statement. But then you glance at your production environment where half the company's critical business logic lives in a 47MB .xlsx file with macros that nobody dares to touch because Karen from accounting wrote them in 2009 and she's retired now. The file has circular references, merged cells used as primary keys, and somehow powers the entire invoicing system. It crashes twice a week but generates accurate reports. Is it a database? Technically no. Does it store, query, and retrieve structured data that your entire business depends on? Absolutely. The cognitive dissonance is real.

Most Dreaded Language
Microsoft Programming Windows
1 month ago 31.9M views 0 shares
Most Dreaded Language
VBA really said "hold my deprecated functions" and became the language that makes developers physically recoil in horror. Like, imagine being SO universally despised that even when people see you sleeping peacefully, they're still traumatized. That's VBA energy right there – the language that haunts Excel macros and corporate nightmares everywhere. It's basically the coding equivalent of finding out your "quick automation task" requires you to write in a language that peaked in the 90s and refuses to die. The absolute AUDACITY of VBA to still be relevant in 2024 while looking like it crawled out of a time capsule filled with Windows 95 CDs!

Excel As A Service
Cloud Databases AWS Backend Devops
3 months ago 23.4M views 2 shares
Excel As A Service
You've built an entire data engineering pipeline with Kafka streaming events, Spark processing petabytes, S3 lakehouse storing everything, Airflow orchestrating the chaos, dbt transforming your data models, Snowflake warehousing it all, and a beautiful BI dashboard visualizing real-time insights. Twelve enterprise tools, six-figure cloud bills, months of architecture meetings, and what happens at the end? Karen exports it to Excel anyway. The entire modern data stack exists solely to feed Excel spreadsheets. You can architect the most sophisticated real-time AI-native platform known to humanity, but the final consumer will always be someone who needs to "just quickly check something" in Excel. The data engineering equivalent of cooking a Michelin-star meal and watching someone drown it in ketchup.

Microsoft Developers Right Now
Microsoft AI Programming
4 months ago 1.1M views 1 shares
Microsoft Developers Right Now
So Claude just announced they're integrating with Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook. Meanwhile, Microsoft spent years cramming Copilot into every corner of their ecosystem, only to watch their competitor waltz in and apparently do it better. The look on those devs' faces must be priceless right now. Nothing quite captures the corporate tech world like watching your own product get outshined by the competition in your own house . It's like inviting someone to dinner and they bring a better version of the meal you were planning to serve. The awkward tension is real.

Real Job
Microsoft Windows MacOS Apple Ios
6 months ago 786.5K views 0 shares
Real Job
Fake job: MacBook, collaborative cloud tools, boba tea, mental health days, and beach chairs. Real job: ThinkPad running Windows, Excel files sent from an iPhone at 2:47 AM, three cups of coffee that have achieved room temperature, Zyn pouches, Teams messages about PowerPoint alignment issues, and a multi-monitor setup that screams "I haven't seen sunlight in four days." The "fake job" is basically what you tell people at parties. The "real job" is what you're actually doing when someone pings you about a spreadsheet macro at 2:47 AM and you respond within 3 minutes because you were already awake debugging production. Also, "Please fix alignment" in Teams is the corporate equivalent of "it doesn't work" in a bug report. Zero context, maximum urgency.

When Your Api Client Is Just Excel With A 'Send Request' Button
Backend Webdev Programming Frontend
6 months ago 505.0K views 0 shares
When Your Api Client Is Just Excel With A 'Send Request' Button
You know you've made it as a backend dev when your beautifully crafted REST API gets consumed by... Excel. With VBA macros. And someone's cousin who "knows computers" added a button that says "Send Request" in Comic Sans. The thing is, they're not wrong. Excel is basically the world's most popular database, frontend framework, and API client all rolled into one unholy spreadsheet. Finance bros have been doing API calls from Excel since before half of us knew what JSON was. They're out there concatenating URLs in cell B4 and parsing responses with VLOOKUP like it's perfectly normal behavior. And you can't even be mad because it works. They're hitting your endpoints, they're getting their data, and they didn't have to install Node.js or argue about which HTTP client library is best. Meanwhile you spent three weeks building a proper SDK that nobody uses.

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Great And Exciting
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6 months ago 588.6K views 0 shares
Great And Exciting
Young Bill Gates dreaming about the future of computing: revolutionary AI, quantum breakthroughs, holographic interfaces! Fast forward 30 years and we're asking Copilot to "beautify my execl" (yes, with a typo). The gap between tech visionaries imagining the future and the mundane reality of developers asking AI to pretty up their spreadsheets is just *chef's kiss*. We went from "computers will change the world" to "please make my pivot table not look like garbage." The typo really seals the deal here—even with AI assistance, we still can't spell "excel" correctly. Technology has peaked, folks.

From A Multinational Bank Too
Backend Webdev Programming Frontend
7 months ago 576.9K views 0 shares
From A Multinational Bank Too
Nothing screams "enterprise-grade documentation" quite like receiving your API specification as JSON snippets copy-pasted into Excel cells. Because why use OpenAPI/Swagger specs, Postman collections, or literally any proper API documentation tool when you can just... Excel ? The fact that this came from a multinational bank makes it even more delicious. Somewhere in their tech stack, they're handling billions in transactions with microservices and distributed systems, but when it comes to sharing API docs? Excel spreadsheet it is! The JSON is probably beautifully formatted too—until Excel decides that your timestamps are dates and your IDs need to be in scientific notation. Props to whoever had to parse through those cells trying to figure out which curly brace belongs where. Hope they didn't need to copy-paste that JSON anywhere, because Excel definitely added some invisible characters for flavor.

From A Multinational Bank Too
Backend Programming Webdev
7 months ago 541.5K views 0 shares
From A Multinational Bank Too
Nothing screams "enterprise-grade documentation" quite like receiving JSON screenshots pasted into Excel cells. Because why use OpenAPI/Swagger specs, Postman collections, or literally any structured format when you can squint at pixelated text in a spreadsheet? The fact that this is coming from a multinational bank with presumably billions in revenue makes it even more chef's kiss. Someone probably spent hours meticulously screenshotting each endpoint, carefully pasting them into Excel, and thought "yes, this is the professional way." Meanwhile, the developer receiving this masterpiece gets to manually type out every field, guess the data types, and pray they didn't miss anything because zooming into cell B47 isn't helping. The frog's dignified expression perfectly captures the internal screaming while maintaining that corporate professionalism.

My Face When It's Data Migration Time
Databases Backend Debugging Programming Devops
7 months ago 521.6K views 0 shares
My Face When It's Data Migration Time
Database normalization? Foreign keys? Proper schema design? Never heard of her. When it's time to migrate that legacy database that's been held together with duct tape and prayers, you'll find yourself begging the data to just... be normal . But nope, Excel decides to show up to the party uninvited, screaming its head off with its CSV exports, date formatting nightmares, and those delightful cells that randomly convert everything to scientific notation. The real horror? When stakeholders hand you a 47-tab Excel workbook with merged cells, inconsistent data types, and formulas that reference other workbooks on someone's laptop from 2014. "Just import this into the new system," they say. Sure, right after I finish my therapy sessions.

Why Not?
Microsoft Debugging
8 months ago 446.8K views 0 shares
Why Not?
Excel really woke up and chose violence today. You're sitting there, innocently trying to do something completely reasonable with your spreadsheet, and Excel just hits you with the "We can't do that to a merged cell" error like it's personally offended by your audacity. No explanation, no helpful suggestions, just pure rejection wrapped in a passive-aggressive dialog box. The merged cell feature is basically Excel's way of saying "I'll let you make your spreadsheet look pretty, but the moment you try to actually USE it for anything, I'm shutting this whole operation down." It's the ultimate betrayal—Excel gives you the tools to create the problem, then acts shocked when you need to work with what you've created. Truly the most toxic relationship in software.