In this episode of Programming By Stealth, Bart Busschots as usual works through his solution to the challenge from last time, and as usual I learn a lot more about how to use jq to solve problems. He takes a bit of a detour to explain a fun email we got from Jill of Kent […]
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Dumb Question Corner – How does a Database Solve a Problem a Spreadsheet Can’t?
Ron Heiby wrote a “dumb question” in our slack (at podfeet.com/slack): Just listening to the “In a Few Minutes” episode from Feb 14 and heard you mention about using Airtable for tracking the streaming stuff you have in-process. I know almost nothing about Airtable, having just looked at their web site’s main page a bit. […]
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I Finally Understand Databases Because of the Free Airtable App
You know I’m a huge fan of Excel and all things spreadsheets. Pivot tables, complex equations, they all make my heart go pitter-pat. But I’ve never really understood databases. I can explain what they are and why they’re not like spreadsheets, but only at a very surface level. I haven’t ever grokked them because I […]
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