The First Rule of Microsoft Excel: Don’t Tell Anyone You’re Good at It

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  • gtoolkit

    Glamorous Toolkit is the Moldable Development environment. It empowers you to make systems explainable through experiences tailored for each problem.

  • prolly a bit outside the mainstream but -> https://gtoolkit.com/

  • TiddlyWiki

    A self-contained JavaScript wiki for the browser, Node.js, AWS Lambda etc.

  • What we need is easier ways to create simple, cross-platform, stand-alone applications. RInno (https://ficonsulting.github.io/RInno/) seems like a nice options (local R shiny app + electron) but I guess the files will be huge and platform-dependent

    TiddlyWiki (https://tiddlywiki.com/) is another good example; I can make something great, just send it by mail and know the recipient can open and use it.

  • SurveyJS

    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

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  • RInno

    How to install local shiny apps

  • What we need is easier ways to create simple, cross-platform, stand-alone applications. RInno (https://ficonsulting.github.io/RInno/) seems like a nice options (local R shiny app + electron) but I guess the files will be huge and platform-dependent

    TiddlyWiki (https://tiddlywiki.com/) is another good example; I can make something great, just send it by mail and know the recipient can open and use it.

  • VBAChromeDevProtocol

    VBA (Excel) based wrapper for Chrome Developer Protocol (CDP) - sorta a VBA version of Puppeteer/Selenium

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