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Programmatically Speaking
Personal blog · programmaticallyspeaking.comprogramming
Programmatically Speaking is a personal blog at programmaticallyspeaking.com about programming. Since 2019, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-07-16, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog for its post on diffing Excel files with Git, which covers using an Excel diff driver for version control of XLSX files. The comments only cite it as a how-to.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A blog about software development
What Hacker News says?
If you are using XLSX files (Excel 2007 and later) you can use an Excel diff driver with Git for not terrible version control - http://programmaticallyspeaking.com/git-diffing-excel-files....
Comment linking /git-diffing-excel-files.html
on “The SaaS Opportunity of Unbundling Excel”Submitted Enumerable.Concat brought down a production server as a story · 1 points
HN discussionWell... diffing at least is possible :) https://programmaticallyspeaking.com/git-diffing-excel-files... Git is flexible!
Comment linking /git-diffing-excel-files.html
on “A second look at "no code" tools (2019)”