tjchear

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by tjchear 6y ago
@ Facebook engineers: to my knowledge, Facebook still adopts a monolith architecture for their servers. How do you deal with regression in one area potentially bringing down the whole system?
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by tjchear 6y ago
If it helps anybody, this is what I learned from my time at G. Suppose you are given an objective. Now you drive a project to achieve said objective. For starters: 0. Identify project requirements and scope. 1. Identify stakeholders. These
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by tjchear 6y ago
Ah I see what you mean. I was confused when you said encapsulating code generation in function calls, but what you're saying is better abstraction that saves you from writing boilerplate code and also does not force you to do things a
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by tjchear 6y ago
What is an example of: 1. files that you had to delete? 2. code generation in a function call? 3. better abstraction?
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by tjchear 6y ago
I can't speak for the entire org, but when I was in Display Ads, promotion went to people who moved the needle on certain metrics, e.g processing latency, revenue, throughput, resource usage, etc. More often than not, impacts like that
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by tjchear 6y ago
And if the source architecture and destination architecture use identical endian-ness.
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by tjchear 6y ago
Hi abhayhegde, I just added more social media icon links to all of the UI components, so you can add links to social media. Circular frame coming soon!
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by tjchear 6y ago
I think with the exception of Sheet2Site (and SheetUI, of course), the aforementioned platforms do provide write to sheet as well. Judging by the fact that they've been around for a while, I believe there is a market for platform with
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by tjchear 6y ago
Nothing wrong with them at all! They're each filling a different niche. Very well done too. I'm considering some of them as backend, actually. My niche happens to be to quickly create a single visually pleasing web page from a she
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by tjchear 6y ago
These are great ideas! I'll add them to SheetUI's feature roadmap. Definitely reach out to me at tjchear (twitter/linkedin/gmail) and we can talk about what you need.
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by tjchear 6y ago
I have not run across this issue before. How are you accessing the sheets though? Cloud Sheets API, or the json-in-script endpoint?
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by tjchear 6y ago
I agree with this to some extent. The aesthetics, even if it does almost nothing for functionality, unfortunately does influence people's impression and opinion, and ultimately, their decision to open their wallet. When the SaaS world
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by tjchear 6y ago
Whoops. That was a mistake I made from copying that section from another project. Corrected it to per month now.
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Sheet is retrieved and parsed client-side. React lets me iterate faster. I also use Next.js, so where possible I can do server-side rendering before sending the rendered bits down the wire.
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It's most certainly not too much of an ask. I'll make the changes!
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I googled for javascript read google sheets. A few libraries showed up and I tried them. They weren't very polished so I wrote my own instead.
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by tjchear 6y ago
Ooh I have some opinions about this, and I largely agree with you (crazy, I know). One idea I have is to go back to the simpler days of MSDOS GUI. We can generate such a UI using some custom markdown, and for the most part it does simple CR
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by tjchear 6y ago
They are currently used as private use webpages for either private communities or to clients. I do not have a publicly viewable website I can show you, because frankly SheetUI is fairly new and no one has used it for that yet.
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by tjchear 6y ago
A subscription model on more template choices, read/write capabilities, and external integrations. Complete site/app generation from sheets is not out of the question :)
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by tjchear 6y ago
I use Next.js, but the sheet is loaded client side :) My next iteration would switch to Cloud sheets API though. That said, I wish I had stumbled upon your library when I first started out. It looks better designed than the one I initially
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by tjchear 6y ago
That is the perfect use case! Sheets already got a lot of features baked into it, no point re-inventing.
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by tjchear 6y ago
That's a good point. I should cache the generated sites or the sheet's data in case the sheet server goes down.
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by tjchear 6y ago
Never heard of it, but it looks really well done! It also mirrors Google Sheet's UI closely for easier onboarding. I guess at this point you can say SheetUI is a pale copy of it and I'd have nothing to counter. That said, their ma
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by tjchear 6y ago
Thank you! I hope all is well with you and your project!
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by tjchear 6y ago
Thanks! These products are great (I can see myself using a couple of them). I think when we look across all industries that use spreadsheets, we'll find a market that's so big that any player can find their own profitable niche. I
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by tjchear 6y ago
Yes, that is a great use case! Let me know how it works for you. Feel free to reach out to me at tjchear over twitter/linkedin/gmail.
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by tjchear 6y ago
There is always room for improvement! For now, SheetUI doesn't do the same thing as Sheet2Site (they generate an entire website, whereas SheetUI generates only single web page per sheet). Considering how many people across so many indu
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by tjchear 6y ago
Got any examples of such products? I'd love to learn from them, and hopefully find my own niche :)
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by tjchear 6y ago
Far from it! The backend is provided by Google Sheets. Much of what I do with SheetUI is to provide an easy-to-use editor and a beautiful front-end to visualize the data coming from the sheets.
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by tjchear 6y ago
Like it or not, it's the reality we're in. It's not going away anytime soon, but we can always achieve incremental improvements towards that ideal through HTML standardizations. React and GraphQL (both great products from fb)

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