whey cocoa, guai, caf
vitamin - olive oil - yogurt
email backlog slog
continue polling Apr trx counts
low-hanging fruit approvals
dishes
vac
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(As seen ironically on a Meta channel)
Wired 03-21: HT avoid US-based digital services, and why
tl;dr - bc providers are colluding with investigative overreach, and science data retention is under attack
There's one thing that Alphabet does exceedingly well, that nobody else is quite competitive with yet - spreadsheets in the browser. As a data person, the spreadsheet is hands-down the killer app of my working life.
Grist is probably the closest to challenging the Alphabet/Microsoft duopoly.
Airtable is a distant second, perhaps pricing themselves out of that market.
The ultimate conundrum I keep coming back to though - it's super convenient to be able to access all my lists and analysis tools online, but how do you mirror them to an offline backup without clunky third-party "sync" widgets? Alphabet's sync driver never gets it quite right, so then you're back to Office365 which also errs too much on the side of intrusive promotion of eyeroller toy features.