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VBA Has No Right To Be That Powerful
Programming Microsoft Databases Backend
12 days ago 189.6K 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
15 days ago 113.3K 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."

Santa's Database Security Is Coming To Town
Databases Security Microsoft Programming
25 days ago 102.2K 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.

When AI Offers To Help But Excel Has Other Plans
AI Programming Databases
1 month ago 106.1K 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
1 month ago 110.2K 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 92.9K 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 124.3K 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!

Either That Or A.I.
Microsoft Programming Databases
2 months ago 96.4K views 0 shares
Either That Or A.I.
The trillion-dollar financial industry's dirty secret? It's just a bunch of spreadsheets in a trenchcoat. Banks, hedge funds, and trillion-dollar markets all crucified on the cross of Microsoft Excel. One misplaced decimal, one broken VLOOKUP, and the economy tanks. Meanwhile, some 22-year-old analyst is frantically trying to fix their circular reference errors before the CFO notices. The modern economy: powered by a program designed in the 80s that crashes if you sort a column wrong.

Excel's February Existential Crisis
Microsoft Programming
2 months ago 115.4K views 1 shares
Excel's February Existential Crisis
The philosophical debate about half-empty vs half-full glasses PALES in comparison to the absolute EXISTENTIAL CRISIS that is February in Excel! While mere mortals contemplate optimism and pessimism, spreadsheet warriors are battling the UNHOLY TERROR of Excel thinking February 1st deserves MULTIPLE EXCLAMATION MARKS!!! Why? Because Excel is DRAMATICALLY SCREAMING about the shortest month like it's the apocalypse while your date formatting slowly crumbles into chaos. The spreadsheet doesn't care about your glass - it's too busy having a complete meltdown over 28 days of pure calendar ANARCHY!

True Excel Expertise Is Measured In Hatred
Microsoft Windows Programming
2 months ago 111.4K 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
2 months ago 103.3K 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
2 months ago 117.8K 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!"