That’s the way it goes with the scale from simple to “something that fits our needs”. Either something is too simple or it is so complex that you can’t let your more challenged users at it. So you end up rolling your own solution.

That’s how many companies end up with monstrous Excel or Access applications.

The upside of having your own app that uses common open source components is that integration with other tools is easier later down the line. Make it web based and it can run on basically every computer on the planet. Use PostgreSQL or MySQL in the backend and you can easily add other frontends if needed.

Went on a date wearing crocs. At first she laughed at me. By the end she was wearing them.

I’m only upvoting because you provided without the paywall. Sincerely, thank you boss.

Aren’t all the archive services used as huge botnets? Except for archive.org of course.

If I had a nickel for every meteor that hit a house this month…

Isn’t Oracle still giving out free servers? They are known to pull the plug on those without warning, but it should be enough to play around with and set it up in a way that you can get it running again quickly if it goes down, which is very valuable knowledge.

Sounds like you’ve got an especially kinky date ahead of you.