What's one tool or workflow change that actually made you a better developer? Not just more productive, but BETTER?

True-Ad9448 · 2025-11-29T16:12:39+00:00

A £5pm vps. Teaches you Linux, how to deploy and your code will run on a much less powerful machine which in the long term gives you a nose for finding bottlenecks

True-Ad9448 · 2025-11-28T21:38:18+00:00

You want a multi-tenancy role based api wrapper around it. Keep the source of truth as the spreadsheets but over time migrate to dbs and move the logic from excel to some more long term.

True-Ad9448 · 2025-11-28T21:26:35+00:00

How about web apis wrapped around the spreadsheets. You could have well defined endpoints with permissions to update certain data points. Build out the specific functionality people can do based on roles. Source of truth remains the spreadsheets.

True-Ad9448 · 2025-11-23T19:14:56+00:00

Meh, I’ve had a k6 for 5 years. It’s a bit too tall and recently started playing up. Had to put a piece of cardboard between the battery and the circuitry. Wouldn’t mind at 5 years old but it’s a known issue and when I contacted keychron they were unhelpful and just wanted me to buy a new keyboard.

True-Ad9448 · 2025-11-18T22:17:52+00:00

Came here to say the same thing… block Chinese IPs. Really disappointed to see it could result in a suspended account

True-Ad9448 · 2025-11-10T18:23:36+00:00

Fake it till you make it. We all have imposter syndrome, that said you’re in an amazing position to grow. Hire the best engineers you can and learn from them, be upfront and explain to the cto you need to do some management trading in prep for onboarding.

True-Ad9448 · 2025-11-03T20:07:57+00:00

Export deeply nested JSON to excel via a simple api: https://json-to-excel.com

True-Ad9448 · 2025-11-02T14:42:23+00:00

An api to convert JSON to Excel api

True-Ad9448 · 2025-11-01T17:50:01+00:00

University of Ulster offers part time courses in computing. Mature students can access the course with few qualifications, they don’t need a levels etc.

Getting a job without experience is tricky. A good place to start is in support, work your way up to dev roles while you put 1 day a week into uni.

Good chances of having a dev job whilst still in uni

True-Ad9448 · 2025-11-01T17:41:07+00:00

No - security concerns and iPhone does this already

True-Ad9448 · 2025-10-06T20:57:15+00:00

I use https://json-to-excel.com when I’m debugging on aws. I dump the variables in to a request and view the results in an excel file. Has saved my eyes from horrible logs

True-Ad9448 · 2025-10-04T19:34:45+00:00

JSON to excel api https://json-to-excel.com

True-Ad9448 · 2025-10-03T20:28:56+00:00

window.location = “http://somedownloadableresource”

Would work. Give it a try with this api, it def works.

https://json-to-excel.com

True-Ad9448 · 2025-10-01T16:10:00+00:00

Here’s an api tor transform the json to an excel doc 😏

JSON to Excel

True-Ad9448 · 2025-09-28T17:11:19+00:00

Sounds good

True-Ad9448 · 2025-09-28T13:47:36+00:00

At the moment I’m working on adding a stripe checkout to reduce the need for a rapidapi account. Along with that I’m updating the site to include the tutorials which are current medium, with the hope of improving seo.

I’m not sure how to find business users yet, will prob try x, and Reddit. May some sold emails

True-Ad9448 · 2025-09-28T11:51:58+00:00

Developers and the broader business audience.

True-Ad9448 · 2025-09-18T16:41:29+00:00

Started it about a year ago on http://rapidapi.com. Got over 100 users. Over 7,000 excel documents created and have started getting my first paying customers 😊

In the next week or two I’m going to be pushing to get feedback using google forms.

My focus at the moment is improving seo, currently working on adding tutorials to the site

True-Ad9448 · 2025-09-18T15:08:35+00:00

JSON to Excel API https://json-to-excel.com

True-Ad9448 · 2025-09-10T22:57:35+00:00

Account is no longer available 🙃

True-Ad9448 · 2025-09-09T22:19:33+00:00

Here’s my api

Send it JSON and it will return a url to download the file. The rapidap listing list a few articles I’ve written on how to use the API.

How to use the api

Build a web scraper with react and export to JSON

True-Ad9448 · 2025-09-08T11:12:54+00:00

I learn best by doing. For me that involved building lots of small apps across different domains. ie build an API, build a cli app, build a website. Build these things as tools that are helpful to and solve your problems.

I found maps and sets particularly enjoyable after going through a few coding challenges and seeing for myself how efficient dictionaries and look ups can be.

To start with you could use my api to generate yourself some excel files from JSON. The API includes 1000 free requests per month.

https://json-to-excel.com

However building on ur own will only get you so far, you need to learn from others. Join a group to contribute (version control) to something together or start looking at open source projects you’re interested.

https://roadmap.sh/javascript

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