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title: "Spreadsheets and Small Software"

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*or why we need more spreadsheets.*
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As a software engineer, I like to write and appreciate <em>good</em> software (no, I pine for it) – easy to work with, easy to understand, amenable to change, and reliable. The sheet was none of these things.

I was compelled to take a close look at why it was so. It's been a few months since. This is a quick summary of things I've found, some of my thoughts and what I’ve been up to with them.
I was compelled to take a close look at why it was so. This is a quick summary of things I've found, some of my thoughts and what I’ve been up to with them.

## My Spreadsheet problem
If you’ve spent enough time on a sheet you’ve seen these: copy-paste errors, finicky date formats, a mixup with a relative/absolute reference, some rows at the bottom missing from an average[^spreadsheet-programming-problems], awkward VLOOKUPs, INDEX-MATCHes, workarounds for circular references[^dont-circular-ref] and mega-formulas[^mega-formulas]. Put a few of these in a sheet and it gets messy very quickly.
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section: ["HTML","RSS", "JSON"]

params:
description: "Bean – A spreadsheet playground"
description: "Bean"
dateformat: "2 January, 2006"
feedlinks: true
imageMaxWidth: 400
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