How many work presentations have you sat through that were so boring you could have fallen asleep? How often do you think people are immediately forgetting what you are presenting!? Let's change that. With just a few simple tips, you can make your work presentations more engaging and memorable for your audience, and hopefully others will follow suit and make their presentations more engaging as well.
Last year I wrote about building single-page apps (SPAs) using Svelte on top of Google Apps Script. I've since improved my approach and I am continuing to find lots of new use cases for this approach.
Spreadsheets are arguably the best thing to come out of the computer age. Spreadsheets were the first killer app for computers. Good spreadsheets are powerful, well organized and, most importantly, useful. Decorative spreadsheets, on the other hand, give the appearance of being useful but in reality resist any kind of deeper analysis or utilization. Let me clarify what separates the two and help you avoid creating the latter.
Earlier this year I wrote about my love of Google Apps Script to automate Calendar, Docs and Sheets. I recently looked into taking Google Apps Script even farther, leveraging its ability to serve HTML. Specifically, though, I wanted to see if I could build single-page apps (SPAs) using Svelte, my preferred UI framework. Turns out, you can and it’s really easy!
The narrative that AI will replace developers is everywhere, but it's fundamentally wrong. AI makes developers more productive, which increases their ROI. Basic economics tells us you should invest more, not less, in high-return assets. Companies cutting developers because of AI are either admitting they lack vision or are just making excuses to cut costs.