Here’s a thing I wrote last month: jwzsheet.

It is a small and self-contained PHP and JavaScript library for generating HTML tables of spreadsheet-like reports, including arithmetically-computed cell values.

I did this while refactoring some of DNA Lounge’s internal business systems to have simpler code and less duplicated logic. This let me delete so much code!

But it took me a while to actually bite the bullet and do it. “I am not going to write a spreadsheet”, I kept saying to myself, “that’s stupid.”

“Ok, maybe just a little bit of a spreadsheet. This far no farther.”

“Ok, maybe just a little bit more.”

As the Big Black song says, “I tell myself I will not go, even as a drive there.”