you right-blink to bring up the context menu

(good question!)

waiting to know what does the eye roll gesture do

Honestly couldn't find anything better than devwulf.github.io/vso or app.g-script.io and run into bugs in both already..

All the node programming solutions are purpose built, and probably for a reason, daaamn these are painful to use..

@Jarno Montonen a little late but we built (but no longer maintain) something that might work for you: flower.aspen.cloud

You can work with tables and CSV files but can also just work with single number values

@Jarno Montonen one hard (and sad) conclusion I have reached while working on Flyde was that such actions are not suitable for node-based programming. I found that inline scripts (such as simple inline JS) is best for such operations

Matthew Linkous cool project! where can I read more about it (and the reason you stopped)?

PS: I see you were also using BlueprintJS for the UI 😉

Excel-like formulas are the gold standard for basic arithmetic from our research

We stopped working on Flower bc we realized it lived in this “uncanny valley” between business users who prefer working excel and developers who prefer a real programming lang. Especially because we learned how Excel PowerPivot basically serves the same need for non-technical folks

Thanks for sharing. Sounds somewhat familiar 🙂

Matthew Linkous thanks for sharing! I don't think this does boolean algebra though?

Can you give an example of what you’re imaging? Are you hoping for conditional paths?

Yeah, like the conditions in these. I wanted to try to implement this job billing calculator in the common no-code paradigms: blocks, nodes and spreadsheets and compare to how my structured natural language does against them.

I must be the most biased person in the world, but the test made me very confident about structured natural language for this kind of stuff. Spreadsheets certainly have their strengths, but Excel formulas are just painful to use. Today I spent the whole day working on a more complex excel thingy and o'boy did I wish I could've just used my editor for writing the formulas.

Well, tbf the example doesn't even have boolean algebra, but conditionals yes

Basically how’d you do it in Flower. You can use filters to create separate tables or use formulas to create new columns. In this case the formula is Wage * MIN(80, Hours) + MOD(Hours, 80) * Wage * 1.2 to setup pay. Unlike Excel we actually support column names

Okay, interesting approach! Don't think I've seen anything like that before. I was just looking for "greater than" node. btw, 80 hours a day would certainly warrant some extra pay 😄

Gonna burn the midnight oil (and warp time) when working at a startup lol

and won't need an overtime pay calculator at all..

too bad you couldn't find a product-market-fit for flower. it seems like it could be able to fix the difficulty of tracking what's happening in a more complicated spreadsheet while still benefiting from the strengths of tabular presentations

Yeah well it’s open-source and we’re executing on something much cooler now so it’s all good