Linking issues and doc is pretty much nice feature.
I don't have Atlassian experience but I feel Notion databases slow to interact and with unnecessary animations and transitions. Sure regular Notion pages are fast to load.
Coming from extensive excel user teams, Sheets is really hard for me to navigate.
We're building a collaborative platform to gather and share best coding practices.
In short, it helps us highlight code snippets from the IDE (JetBrains, Visual Studio, VS Code), discuss them in Slack (or MS Teams or Discord or Mattermost), and document them with contextual examples.
I think this is one of the core pain points. Google workspace is like being default for most startups tied to email but then GW don't have enough tools or high quality enough? I would rather use notion than writing in google doc for e.g.
I am on the other end of the scale. I don't like excel and spreadsheets for anything non-data related information. I usually decline clients if they follow "spreadsheet driven software development" process specially if combined with frequent long meetings.
I experienced this in Scrum planning, daily standups, and other rituals were done with Excel shared via Zoom (or similar) meetings.
The Scrum Master would ask each team member a question (e.g. estimation, etc.) and then fill the Excel while online, wasting everyone's time.
Same with planning, there will be some basic template for a sprint, and it will be filled with the estimations/Jira tickets during the online meeting!
Given said that, there are some valid uses for shared spreadsheets in Product/SDLC.
One method I used is specific for data engineering projects: the product fills Excel/Google Spreadsheet with the example input, output shapes in the form of tables, and the developers asking question while they arriving to common spec.
Another is called Decision Matrix (almost as old as Periodic Table;), which was recently popularized by Rich Hickey in his talk Design in Practice[1,2].
Another valid usecase for shared spreadsheets is Use Cases table.
Just checking around, tried a simple 'python' search and got a bunch of non-working urls [0] but I did check out that blog and found it interesting.
I'd also suggest to highlight sites [1] in your comment. I don't have a personal suggestion to contribute, but [2] [3] [4] might be worth checking out for you.
Another suggestion would be to add some random interesting search, something like the examples in explainshell [5]
I agree that tech has projects and ideas you could do yourself @home.
Now my question is ... why local structural engineers or other professionals rarely write a blog or an essay sharing their knowledge and experience or just normal expressive posts like you would see on mainstream social media?
I don't think there's that much innovation in those fields (esp. on individual contributor level), so there's considerably less to write about. The old professions are standardized to a large degree and they're unlike tech where new approaches to literally everything are invented (or, should I say, unleashed upon the world) regularly.
