>Visual Basic allowed people with minimal knowledge of computers to write useful applications Over a weekend, I built a very useful application using only the

>Visual Basic allowed people with minimal knowledge of computers to write useful applications Over a weekend, I built a very useful application using only the `yad` [1] tool, sqlite3, and BASH scripts. Its a membership system with integrated Bluetooth, QR codes, Markdown for membership cards, and so on. I was impressed with how quickly it all came together. It was delightful to be programming forms, using BASH to validate the results, and then stuff things into a relational database - all with common tools available with ease on the newly installed Raspberry Pi. I was struck with how pleasant it felt to be coding this way. Immediate forms, very rapid validation logic, and a great set of tools to do data mangling. I even managed to convince ChatGPT to give me a "randomized test data" script that populated my nascent database with acceptable data for the purposes of continued development. Suddenly, rendering Markdown from the .sqlite3 database was fun! We've come a long way. I didn't have to fuss much to gain access to many of these tools. Of course it helps that I know a bit of `yad` to be dangerous, enough sqlite3 to be productive, and just enough BASH to tie it all together. I couldn't help but feel, somehow, that there was a way to make a GUI for these three tools, though .. [1] - https://github.com/v1cont/yad https://github.com/v1cont/yad