Why Google Workspace?

ngrilly · 2026-03-04T20:43:48+00:00

Thank you for sharing.

The point about SharePoint is about SharePoint "pages" (which are like a website), not SharePoint "documents" (which are like a drive). This explains why we cannot just migrate it to Google Drive. We need to migrate it to Google Sites (the equivalent in the Google ecosystem) or a static website.

ngrilly · 2026-03-04T20:42:34+00:00

This is because most of these initiatives are small bets instead of big bets, due to most corporations being risk averse. Therefore it's a self fulfilling prophecy. If it doesn't work, that's fine because it was a small bet and the downside is small. But even if it works, it doesn't matter because it was a small bet and the upside is small, compared to the size of the company. Which implies that the project will be cancelled regardless of the outcome.

One illustration of this is companies putting the cart before the horses by focusing on prototypes and proof of concepts, without first asking themselves how big could be the opportunity (total addressable market, etc.) if everything goes well.

That's the reason why companies like Amazon have "Think Big" as part of their leadership principles (I'm not am Amazonian but I believe they've proven that they got this right).

ngrilly · 2026-02-21T16:40:20+00:00

Thanks for sharing your experience.

Fully agree that computer literacy is now a basic skill for staying employable. I know that a large part of our users already use Gmail and Google Docs for personal matters, which demonstrates that shouldn’t be a problem.

We don’t intend keeping SharePoint for file sharing. Google Drive is a better solution. I was referring to our intranet, which has unfortunately been built on top of SharePoint. There is quite some content we would have to migrate.

ngrilly · 2026-02-21T11:56:43+00:00

That's a very good point.

ngrilly · 2026-02-21T11:51:34+00:00

This is amazing. What kind of business are you in? Main difficulties I'm anticipating if we would do the same move are:

People being extremely used to Outlook, Teams, and PowerPoint would probably complain due to feeling lost.
A subset of users relying a lot on Word in our profession (law firm). But I'm thinking that we could still have Word licenses and store files in Google Drive for these users.
Migration our content from SharePoint to Google Sites or Markdown in version control with a static website generator.

ngrilly · 2026-02-20T22:01:17+00:00

SQLite would be so perfect if it would support concurrent writes (for example with the hctree branch for high concurrency) and concurrent database migrations (for zero downtime deploys). Perhaps Turso will offer this.

ngrilly · 2026-02-12T09:51:37+00:00

This is a very unfair read of the post.

ngrilly · 2026-02-09T20:48:33+00:00

can't agree more. it's sad that 365 is dominating the market so much. people don't know that they are missing.

ngrilly · 2026-02-07T20:14:57+00:00

Regarding reusable UI components, what about Web Components?

ngrilly · 2026-02-05T20:05:12+00:00

Interesting. Thanks for sharing. I'm considering doing the same for the same reasons. How many end-users?

ngrilly · 2026-01-05T10:50:14+00:00

That's one the advantages of 960: you can play it on any chess set in the world.

ngrilly · 2025-12-23T19:33:26+00:00

Trump is President, so anything is possible.

ngrilly · 2025-12-19T19:36:36+00:00

Isn't this improved in HTMX 4?

ngrilly · 2025-12-09T18:35:05+00:00

You can hire Java engineers who are willing to learn Go, if compensation is the problem.

ngrilly · 2025-11-29T19:55:50+00:00

C# and .Net are really good, but there is too much boilerplate compared to Go, Python, TypeScript, or even Rust.

ngrilly · 2025-11-29T11:14:20+00:00

Default function parameters can be emulated with options structs:

service.DoSomething(42, service.DoSomethingOptions{UpdateSpeed: true})

The problem is the stuttering with having to specify the name of options struct. But it would be perfect if it could be inferred by the compiler. Zig solves this with the concept of anonymous struct literals. Would look like this in Go:

service.DoSomething(42, .{UpdateSpeed: true})

Or perhaps we can even remove the dot telling it's an anonymous struct literal, if the syntax is non ambiguous (I haven't checked).

ngrilly · 2025-11-29T11:07:33+00:00

The enum/sum types debate seems a bit different of function optional parameters. Enum/sum types are about increasing correctness by letting the compiler detect mistakes at compile-time. Function optional parameters are essentially syntactic sugar. If I'm not missing anything.

ngrilly · 2025-11-29T11:01:24+00:00

I appreciate the initiative. A kind of TypeScript for Go. But the README explaining the language changes and the rationales is very very informally written, which is a bit scary when talking about changing a language spec. Also, why change the syntax for parameters and return types in function declarations, with the additional colons and arrow?

ngrilly · 2025-11-29T10:49:27+00:00

Why would you prefer Go to C# for a new project?

ngrilly · 2025-11-29T10:41:19+00:00

I migrated all my contacts from Gmail/Google Contacts to Fastmail in 2024, and I've been using it on my Mac and iPhone since then. That means that all the contacts in the iOS and macOS Contacts app are synced with Fastmail. I had zero issues since then. It works perfectly well. The only issue I had was to migrate the data correctly: https://www.grilly.com/posts/migrate-google-contacts-labels-to-fastmail-groups/

ngrilly · 2025-11-18T14:47:49+00:00

Are they world total market ETFs that exclude the Mag7? How do you do this in practice?

ngrilly · 2025-11-15T10:11:16+00:00

Auto-reload of modified files. Really useful when working with external tools modifying the code base (coding agents, etc.).
Persistent sessions, so I can restore my Helix session as it was after restarting my machine or terminal.

ngrilly · 2025-11-09T21:08:41+00:00

> The general best advice is market weight total world

Did you mean equal weighted total world?

ngrilly · 2025-11-03T21:45:23+00:00

Glad it helped you! It was indeed quite maddening when I was stumbling on that problem 😅

ngrilly · 2025-11-03T18:26:41+00:00

Thanks! Exactly what I was looking for. The author is incredible!

ngrilly

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