SheetJS

@patio11 … or the project you can't pursue because of legal. github.com/SheetJS/sheetjs and the supporting company exist to a large extent because a Microsoft employee couldn't get approval to use a real license. In a funny twist of fate, Microsoft now uses our project in Office 365!

It’s useful having a mental model for it even if you don’t work at AppAmaGooBookSoft. “The project you can’t pursue because you won’t get promoted for it is my opportunity.”, to snowclone Bezos.

Not that interested in Kubernets per se myself, but would flag that this is a good thread discussing how market microstructure (here, around promotions) has downstream impacts on the types of decisions firms can and cannot execute on.

@rauschma The `xlsx` module actually ships with a bin script: $ npx xlsx --xlsx in.csv # writes XLSX -> in.csv.xlsx $ npx xlsx --xls in.csv # writes XLS -> in.csv.xls $ npx xlsx in.csv -o out.xlsx # writes to out.xlsx (output format deduced from filename) $ npx xlsx --help # for more info

I have to batch-convert CSV to XLS (or XLSX). Current favorite—an npm package that I can invoke as needed: github.com/Aternus/csv-to… Is there anything else (that runs on macOS without MS Office)?

@sheetsj "Jeff Sheets" is a great name for a future SheetJS mascot! Or a future SheetJS teammate ...

Maybe I was meant to be sheetsj a Java spreadsheets library and i have simply fumbled this opportunity my whole life 🤔

I feel like sheetjs.com is really just profiting by typo squatting from my enormously popular sheetsj.com

Thank you @rock37024185 for your initiative and incredible work translating the SheetJS open source README to Simplified Chinese! github.com/rockboom/Sheet…

@patio11 "Spreadsheets" are unbundling. If you start from "Excel is a tool for data analysis", you get Tableau. Starting from "Excel is a tool for list making" yields Trello. "Excel is a database" becomes AirTable. All are the "quite innovative new approaches" on spreadsheets.

It is a little wild how both Superhuman and Hey managed to come up with quite innovative new approaches on email while Gmail, with all the king's horses and all the king's LaCroix, has barely changed in 15 years. What other things look like this? Spreadsheets feel like one.

@tylertringas Hi @tylertringas SheetJS is focused on spreadsheet mechanics (reading/writing/editing real spreadsheets, executing formulae and recalculating complex workbooks, etc). Our software is used by government agencies and companies that avoid Google Sheets for a whole host of reasons.

Is there a "better" version of sheetjs.com? Super polished, managed, SaaS-ified platform for syncing data between Google Sheets and a web app?

#Office365 uses SheetJS!

@sseraphini @github @githubhelp this is affecting many popular projects and the messages are basically the same. The most recent spam user 'heken375' submitted to @getbootstrap @typescript and @webpack among other projects

hey @github where can we report a spam issue ? like this: github.com/SheetJS/sheetj…

@YoArgentino2012 email hello@ or pro@ (sheetjs dot com)

@SheetJS Do you have an email for a question about SheetJS PRO? Thanks!

@linode you know you're in the big leagues when phishers think it's profitable to spoof your company. Congrats? (further commentary omitted for obvious reasons) The links direct to the subdomain /login.linode.com.login.return.to.https.***.***.net (PS: we're happy customers :)

Time flies ...

@patio11 @gtank__ @WAptekar Analyzing spreadsheets is a 90/10 problem (easy to address common use cases, extremely difficult in general). INDIRECT and the new spill formulae make static analysis difficult since you need to look at the sheet values It's probably better suited for a consultancy than a SaaS.

@gtank__ @WAptekar No specific recommendations, but would love to hear about anything happening here.

@WAptekar (shameless plug) along with our spreadsheet I/O libraries we offer a special JS formula calculator that evaluate Excel formulae. You can change values in the worksheet and recalculate the dependent values. Testing is hard thanks to algorithmic changes between Excel versions

@Path2SharePoint The Pro offering includes support for many niche yet technically complex features like "Charts", "VBA code", "Power Pivot", and "calculating expressions", but most use cases only need a small subset of those features. As a result, it's better to have an upfront discussion

@SheetJS Why are you keeping pricing a secret? I would hope for more transparency.

@SheetJS where could I find pricing information on the Pro package?

@patio11 There's an even shorter supply of people who can inspire those of us 2 years into that grind. Your advice from our 2015 conversation (which started from twitter.com/patio11/status… ) was coincidentally 2 years into my pursuit and is a huge reason why SheetJS is still a thing in 2019

There is a crushing undersupply of people in the world who can pursue an arbitrary goal for two years, particularly in the absence of a well-trod social script for pursuing that goal.

Internet fist bump to the entrepreneur who, in April 2017, asked me how to go about doing an extremely ambitious company and who has sent 2 years worth of updates titled: $COMPANY: $MONTH $YEAR The last one: "We did it! Finally have $NUMBER in the bank!" (Now the work begins.)

@TarasNovak @code Unfortunately many developers think ODS is ODiouS. We'd love to support LibreOffice more but there are deep and irreconcilable philosophical differences regarding the importance of exact calculations (see bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?i… )

marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName… is a very slick open source VSCode extension for viewing spreadsheets and other files, using SheetJS libraries under the hood :) vscode-data-preview in dark mode is visually pleasing compared to Excel's garish dark mode. Thanks @TarasNovak !

@TarasNovak We are :)

@bernard_cheng shoot an email to pro@sheetjs.com

@SheetJS Looking to get preliminary pricing info on 'Pro' version - got info?