--- title: I Will Fucking Dropkick You If You Use That Spreadsheet... description: The author strongly opposes using spreadsheets in automated processes and offers alternatives like databases and coding. They find the use of spreadsheets... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/i-will-fucking-dropkick-you-if-you-use-that-spreadsheet-ludicity-mtj7gpzvq twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: I Will Fucking Dropkick You If You Use That Spreadsheet — Ludicity | daily.dev og:description: The author strongly opposes using spreadsheets in automated processes and offers alternatives like databases and coding. They find the use of spreadsheets... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/i-will-fucking-dropkick-you-if-you-use-that-spreadsheet-ludicity-mtj7gpzvq og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/mTJ7GPzvQ.png og:image:alt: I Will Fucking Dropkick You If You Use That Spreadsheet — Ludicity og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # I Will Fucking Dropkick You If You Use That Spreadsheet — Ludicity **[Community Picks](https://daily.dev/sources/community)** · 7 min read · 18 upvotes · 4 comments ## Summary The author strongly opposes using spreadsheets in automated processes and offers alternatives like databases and coding. They find the use of spreadsheets unreasonable and are willing to provide professional help to those who seek alternatives. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@musicdev** · 2 upvotes > This article is for everyone who works in a corporate environment and sees this garbage all the time. > > It's more common than you think **@alperenozdemir** · 2 upvotes > I really enjoyed reading the article. I haven't read an article that conveys his thoughts with such strong expressions in a long time. In the same format, I would like to reveal my own troubles and ignored problems. It really inspired me about this. **@zhunfy** · 1 upvotes > tl;dr **@lukaskrimphove** · 1 upvotes > As someone working as an IT consultant in the German public sector, I feel this. ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#database](https://daily.dev/tags/database), [#automation](https://daily.dev/tags/automation), [#vb](https://daily.dev/tags/vb), [#sharepoint](https://daily.dev/tags/sharepoint) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/i-will-fucking-dropkick-you-if-you-use-that-spreadsheet-ludicity-mtj7gpzvq) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"I Will Fucking Dropkick You If You Use That Spreadsheet — Ludicity","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/i-will-fucking-dropkick-you-if-you-use-that-spreadsheet-ludicity-mtj7gpzvq","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/i-will-fucking-dropkick-you-if-you-use-that-spreadsheet-ludicity-mtj7gpzvq"},"datePublished":"2023-11-06T18:52:34.755Z","dateModified":"2023-12-07T12:02:45.284Z","description":"The author strongly opposes using spreadsheets in automated processes and offers alternatives like databases and coding. 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