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deepmacro··on Show HN: Tenno – Markdown and JavaScript = a hybrid of Word and Excel
Thanks, great suggestions, and some of them were already on my todo list.
deepmacro··on Show HN: Tenno – Markdown and JavaScript = a hybrid of Word and Excel
Thanks, I'll definitely reach out!
deepmacro··on Show HN: Tenno – Markdown and JavaScript = a hybrid of Word and Excel
Hi there, thanks! Send your comments here https://forms.gle/A8Q8WAG8zj4sLvwQ7 and put your email in there, I will definitely reach out with updates. If you're up to it we could even meet sometimes for a coffee!
deepmacro··on Show HN: Tenno – Markdown and JavaScript = a hybrid of Word and Excel
Nice, I saw this years ago!
deepmacro··on Show HN: Tenno – Markdown and JavaScript = a hybrid of Word and Excel
Tables are something I want to tackle and I'd like to do them right because (as you point out) are crucial. I didn't get there yet...

I want to make it such that you can code on the left and then hide everything and share that with non technical folks. That's why I did not use a Colab, creating something interactive with it (and I did that quite a lot in the past) it's a bit of a PITA.

deepmacro··on Show HN: Tenno – Markdown and JavaScript = a hybrid of Word and Excel
I think having to use a tool different than excel is hard because people have been used to that type of UI for 40 years.

The problem I have is that once you go beyond a simple thing it becomes messy and you never know what you are dealing with. The way you present things graphically and they way you organize data to perform computations are tangled, making hard to read IMO.

deepmacro··on Show HN: Tenno – Markdown and JavaScript = a hybrid of Word and Excel
Nice work!
deepmacro··on Show HN: Tenno – Markdown and JavaScript = a hybrid of Word and Excel
I was hesitant to call it a variable because most people that only use excel are not going to be familiar with that concept. Suggestion for other names?
deepmacro··on Show HN: Tenno – Markdown and JavaScript = a hybrid of Word and Excel
Glad you like, I'll keep you posted for new updates in case you're interested.
deepmacro··on Show HN: Tenno – Markdown and JavaScript = a hybrid of Word and Excel
Good idea, thanks, I'd also like to prevent edit mode on mobile so one can only see the HTML rendered part.
deepmacro··on Show HN: Tenno – Markdown and JavaScript = a hybrid of Word and Excel
In Italy it's at the end, hence my interpretation
deepmacro··on Show HN: Tenno – Markdown and JavaScript = a hybrid of Word and Excel
Thanks! I was always told the dollar is a prefix unit while the euro is not, but perhaps between european countries there are differences in that...

Anyway, yes the editable thing is a known problem that could be fixed by switching to a view mode rather than an edit mode. The problem right now is caused by keeping in sync the edit field and the code on the left side.

deepmacro··on Show HN: Tenno – Markdown and JavaScript = a hybrid of Word and Excel
It can execute arbitrary JS in your browser using eval(), that could be why.
deepmacro··on Show HN: Tenno – Markdown and JavaScript = a hybrid of Word and Excel
nice I did not know about this, thanks for sharing!
deepmacro··on Show HN: Tenno – Markdown and JavaScript = a hybrid of Word and Excel
I was trying to get a sense of what people like and find useful. Your suggestions and comments are helping to figure that out.

I am planning to add support for entire tables, like one coming from a gSheet, and then present data from it. But not there yet, if you have suggestions, please add them to the feedback form https://forms.gle/A8Q8WAG8zj4sLvwQ7

deepmacro··on Show HN: Tenno – Markdown and JavaScript = a hybrid of Word and Excel
Thanks! Yeah, I kind of want to integrate with gSheets so you can have a place where you can dump the data and then operate on it.

Also need to find a nice and easy way to deal with local tables, I'll look into the extension you suggested.

deepmacro··on Show HN: Tenno – Markdown and JavaScript = a hybrid of Word and Excel
The idea was to have a more linear way to express your thoughts and adding calculations. Another big problem for me was that in excel when you want to create various plots for the same multi-variate problem you have to create a ton of copies of your data and formula.

For sharing files, it could be as simple as sharing a text file. You can also imagine a future where you create something and you only share the nice looking html view that is still interactive.

Running locally? not a problem, I already tested packaging this into a OSX app and it was like 4MB and has the same functionalities.

deepmacro··on Show HN: Tenno – Markdown and JavaScript = a hybrid of Word and Excel
Ah, yes, I just fixed that. While you edit, if the code is not valid now it will prevent from crashing the whole thing (band-aid fix).
deepmacro··on Show HN: Tenno – Markdown and JavaScript = a hybrid of Word and Excel
Honestly, no. I heard of it but I never used it. I am sure it has a lot of features that can inspire Tenno, I'll look more into it. One of the main points here was making it more approachable, but it depends on who the audience is.
deepmacro··on Show HN: Tenno – Markdown and JavaScript = a hybrid of Word and Excel
+1 this! I think writing helps you create a narrative that disambiguates the mess you can create in Excel. It also forces you to think more about what you do. Good suggestions! Thanks
deepmacro··on Show HN: Tenno – Markdown and JavaScript = a hybrid of Word and Excel
Yes, a responsive layout it's something I'll tackle in the future, but I think that in 90% of use cases people should use this on a laptop. Check it out again on a laptop if you can!
deepmacro··on Show HN: Tenno – Markdown and JavaScript = a hybrid of Word and Excel
I'd have to look more into it, one thing for sure is that Tenno does not try to be something like Jupyter. The cells execution order is sorted out for you.
deepmacro··on Show HN: Tenno – Markdown and JavaScript = a hybrid of Word and Excel
Right, I did not put a lot of checks in place for such failures. Does it keep happen if you refresh? I've never seen it TBH https://tenno.app/docs
deepmacro··on Show HN: Tenno – Markdown and JavaScript = a hybrid of Word and Excel
Actually I did some very simple search and most results were about my local lake, so I figured that the context was different enough, we'll see.
deepmacro··on Show HN: Tenno – Markdown and JavaScript = a hybrid of Word and Excel
Thanks! That's why I posted this here to see if people would resonate with this or not... I've only worked a couple of weeks on this and I had the same questions!

Can I ask what you ended up building? Is there a website for it?

deepmacro··on Show HN: Tenno – Markdown and JavaScript = a hybrid of Word and Excel
Cool, didn't know that, but I can assure you it's also the name of a lake close to where I live
deepmacro··on Show HN: Tenno – Markdown and JavaScript = a hybrid of Word and Excel
Right, something that's potentially difficult with Jupyter is sharing something that looks nice with non technical folks where they can easily change values and see the result change immediately without having to execute cells.
deepmacro··on Show HN: Tenno – Markdown and JavaScript = a hybrid of Word and Excel
Didn't know about this! Will look into it, one nice thing here is that you do not need "ordering" like in imperative programming when you define your cells.

Is that possible too in Obsidian? Or perhaps it's not useful...

deepmacro··on Show HN: Tenno – Markdown and JavaScript = a hybrid of Word and Excel
Yeah, at the moment I only have line charts but I can add other charts using ChartJS. I also think it could be useful to share some initial prototypes with less technical folks.
deepmacro··on Show HN: Tenno – Markdown and JavaScript = a hybrid of Word and Excel
Good to hear! There is a form to collect feedback, feel free to add comments in there! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf0senRYfIo_034Ukno...
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