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True Excel Expertise Is Measured In Hatred
Microsoft Windows Programming
9 hours ago 58.9K views 0 shares
True Excel Expertise Is Measured In Hatred
The universal truth of Excel expertise: the more you know, the more you despise it. Nothing says "power user" like the burning hatred that comes from understanding Excel's dark corners. The HR person immediately recognizes this as advanced proficiency—because only someone who's spent years wrestling with VLOOKUP failures and circular reference errors could harbor such authentic resentment.

Excel Logic (Now With 100% Less AI!)
Microsoft Programming Databases
1 day ago 53.2K views 0 shares
Excel Logic (Now With 100% Less AI!)
While humans debate philosophical perspectives on water glasses, Excel is over there screaming "FEBRUARY 1st!!!" because it thinks the 1st of February is somehow more exciting than New Year's. Classic Excel—where dates are stored as serial numbers since 1900, and February 1st is literally just the number 32. No nuance, no philosophy, just pure, unbridled enthusiasm for being exactly one month into the year. It's the spreadsheet equivalent of that coworker who celebrates their "half-birthday" with the same energy as their actual birthday.

Excel Logic: Where Everything Becomes A Date
Microsoft Programming Debugging
4 days ago 60.9K views 1 shares
Excel Logic: Where Everything Becomes A Date
While philosophers debate whether the glass is half empty or half full, Excel is over here interpreting your liquid level as a date because why not? This perfectly captures Excel's notorious habit of converting anything remotely numeric into dates whether you want it to or not. Type "1/2" meaning one-half? Nope, that's January 2nd now. Your simple fraction? Sorry, it's February 1st. The eternal struggle of every data analyst who's ever screamed at their screen: "NO EXCEL, THAT'S NOT A DATE!"

When Your Uncle Thinks Spreadsheets Are Production Databases
Databases Microsoft Programming
9 days ago 83.5K views 0 shares
When Your Uncle Thinks Spreadsheets Are Production Databases
The doctor asked a simple question. The patient gave a response that would make any database administrator reach for the defibrillator. Using Excel as a database is the tech equivalent of performing surgery with a butter knife. Sure, it might work for small cuts, but once you hit an artery (or 10,000+ rows), you're just watching a slow death unfold. The real tragedy? Somewhere right now, a Fortune 500 company is running on a critical Excel spreadsheet that only Dave from accounting knows how to update. And Dave is on vacation.

When Conditional Formatting Breaks Reality
Microsoft Programming Debugging Testing
11 days ago 69.7K views 0 shares
When Conditional Formatting Breaks Reality
The perfect visualization of conditional formatting in spreadsheets. One snake sees a purple wall and insists it's pink, while the other swears it changes color when you blink. It's exactly like when you set up those Excel rules that make cells change color based on values, and then your coworker opens the file and goes "why is everything green?" Meanwhile, you're staring at a sea of red cells wondering if you're both looking at the same damn spreadsheet. The turtle is just QA, silently judging everyone's reality.

Santa Is Too Professional
Databases Security Programming
1 month ago 111.8K views 0 shares
Santa Is Too Professional
Little Tim tried to pull a classic SQL injection attack on Santa's naughty/nice database. The kid renamed himself to "Tim'); INSERT INTO [NiceList] SELECT * FROM [NaughtyList];--" hoping to move everyone from the naughty list to the nice list. But Santa's not some rookie DevOps elf. He proudly runs his global gift operation on "several dozen interconnected Excel spreadsheets, like a professional." The ultimate enterprise solution that's immune to SQL injection because it's too chaotic to be hacked. This is why North Pole IT has 364 days of downtime every year. They're still recovering from last Christmas.

One Man Show
AI Programming Databases
1 month ago 119.0K views 0 shares
One Man Show
The corporate data science dream team standing around watching one guy with Excel do all the actual work. Classic case of "we hired seven specialists with fancy titles to stare at a hole while the person who's been using VLOOKUP since 2003 actually solves the problem." This is why your company's $2M data infrastructure still ultimately feeds into someone's spreadsheet that crashes every third Thursday. The Excel guru probably makes half what the AI consultants do, but knows where all the bodies are buried in your database.