• 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works
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    4 hours ago

    everything is possible in excel… someone wrote a DOOM clone in excel.

    I once worked at a company where someone hacked together a PO generating tool in excel 10 years prior and it just kind of stuck around even though the company grew into a billion dollar market cap public company

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      2 hours ago

      I made a poc for a company that wanted to replace the way they programmed their pick and place robots that were powered by… Excel.
      ( the excel made an connection to the plc and wrote the data. It took 30+ minutes, while the poc took less than 3s xD )

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        2 hours ago

        That must have been terribly satisfying.

        I’m sure the workbook still exists somewhere, though, ‘just in case’. And someone argued that the new way is much less accessible than the workbook.