I'd recommend Metabase, we've used it for years with no issue. Very simple to use and business users can easily get the hang of it and build and filter their own reports.
While I'm at it, here's a killer Metabase feature that I haven't seen in other reporting tools I've used:
While you can save a report to folders and have pretty URLs (your.domain.com/sales-report), whenever you build a report or change an existing report, it gets its own unique URL. (It's long and ugly, but I don't mind.)
Here's how I use it and why it's cool:
- If you're building a report and make a mistake or want to try something else, the back button actually works!
- If you have an existing report (your.domain.com/sales-report) and just need to filter it quickly to (like show all sales above $10K closed by Sam this year) and send it to someone else for some quick troubleshooting, you just filter the base report and grab the unique URL and send it around! No need to save it to a folder.
- I have a library of SQL queries for specific things and I can quickly pop that into Metabase (rather than using the report builder) and send the URL to someone. Again, just not having to go through the motions of saving and naming everything that may only be short-lived is nice.
- Just generally love not having to save every little iteration or filtered version of a report as I often just need it for some quick troubleshooting or discussion. No need to have a junk folder of reports with stuff like ("Sam deals over $10K 2024").
Actually, yes -- if you enabled Lost Mode. I have some experience with this situation directly.
On the way home from a trip in December, I dropped an AirTag in the pocket my 3-year-old's stroller and forgot to attach it securely before I gate checked the stroller.
I got the stroller back when we arrived but realized a day later that the AirTag slipped out. I could see it at the AirPort but an ~hour of time trying to recover it wasn't worth it.
I put it in Lost Mode mostly for kicks and when you place it in lost mode you can give people a way to contact you. I left my number.
I watched the AirTag go from my home airport to Scottsboro, Alabama and I knew the lost luggage store was there, so I was confused.
A week or so later I got a call from a service company that handles lost and found for Southwest Airlines. There were able to use an iDevice (presumably) to get my contact information since I had placed the AirTag in Lost Mode. They mailed it back to me for the cost of shipped. I assume if they don't find the owner it goes to the lost luggage store mentioned in the article.
I've just stuck with a single printed page, placed inside the bag and it's outside pockets, with my flight and multiple sets of contact details. However, I haven't lost a bag over hundreds of flights while doing this, so am unsure of the effectiveness.... guess at least the ritual has been working in terms of heading off a loss proactively!
Interesting question! I just checked and, wow, I have 922 accounts in 1password. (From 10+ years of use.)
It’s funny you bring this up because I’ve thought about “cleaning up” 1password before. But all the extra accounts are not really in my way.
I never use oauth (like to create a new account / password for everything). All of my work-related accounts are in there from several employers. Lots of passwords for (probably dead) servers. I count 28 logins for salesforce.com from past employers, various sandboxes, and consulting gigs.
> I never use oauth (like to create a new account / password for everything).
Me too. I have 672. Lots are for accounts I set up for nieces/nephews, etc., so those don’t really count. I bet 100 are stale as well I’ll clean them up one day. Lol.
They've had this feature for sometime and it is pretty cool. :)
About a year ago there was an ask HN about conference room systems. I had just recently gone through the process of selecting and went with zoom. The "airplay" feature was one of the reasons why.
Edit to add one note: They recently (last six months or so) added a feature to allow you to share multiple screens at once. We've setup most of our conference rooms with two screens so it's really cool when two people in a room can wirelessly share their screens and you're able to see both at once.
Wow, thank you for the tip with owllabs.com -- that device sounds amazing (while being damned expensive...). Why do you still use another microphones when you have a 800$ webcam (with integrated microphones) in the room?
We only have a couple of rooms where we have the Owl plus another microphone, and those are rooms that are a little bigger than what is suggested for the owl so having the wireless mics help.
The owl pro seems to have been an improvement there. We only have one pro right now, but the speaker is much louder and mic a bit better.
Just went through this in the last year at my current job. Each conference room had a Mac mini with a keyboard attached and sometimes people used zoom, sometimes gotomeeting, sometimes hangouts. If you wanted to share a screen locally, it involved changing inputs on the TV and making sure you have an HDMI cable with the right dongle. As a result, the rooms were a mess.
Inevitably, it always took some kind of effort to get connected to the correct system and the meeting started.
After evaluating a few options, we’ve moved to zoom rooms. Our sales team was already using zoom and it was an easy decision to roll out zoom to everyone. In my opinion, it was best to have one way and only one way have a meeting. It’s paid off, because it’s now effortless and default. We're really happy with it.
The zoom room setup requires an iPad controller and a Mac or PC to run the zoom software. Everything is setup in kiosk mode and even on reboot, zoom automatically starts up. I don’t even keep keyboards in the rooms because there’s no reason to touch anything but the iPad controller (which is also in kiosk mode so you can't accidentally close the zoom software).
For sharing a screen locally it's done wirelessly and it’s as simple as clicking “share screen” and most of the time it picks up what room you’re in and starts sharing your screen (if not, you just type in the sharing code). No more looking for a cable and dongle. It's pretty cool to be across the room from the TV and be able to share your screen without friction.
We have 15 zoom rooms now in all of our office globally (New Orleans, Austin, Cairo).
We do dual-monitor setups in almost all of conference rooms, save for the smaller huddle rooms. In our new office, I did a 3 monitor setup for a large conference room. To be able to see faces and content being shared is great. Product/dev teams love it particularly because it's easy to review specs or code and see the face of the person you're talking to.
Mentioned elsewhere in this thread, we use Owls (owllabs.com) and have 8 of them in use globally. The team loves them. Particularly for cross-cultural conversations it’s helpful that the camera is in the center of the table and you can see the speaker’s face (vs. being a fly on the wall).
For microphones, we like the VTech VCS704 ErisStation with wireless mics. It’s trained everyone to think to grab a mic before beginning to speak. We put a pricey, high quality MXL AC-360-Z in our new conference room and I think I’m going to switch to a Vtech. There’s just something about the act of grabbing a mic and putting it right in front of your face. People tend to talk with a laptop in front of them, or hands in front of their face, or from the end of the room. There’s something about having a physical object that makes people stop and grab one before speaking. It’s made me think that microphone sound isn’t a tech problem so much as it is a people problem.
This is not my primary job but something I took on. Happy to answer any questions or provide more details about our setup.
This is awesome. Excel is such a valuable tool for its ease in prototyping and testing calculations, but the "classic" challenge is when/how to operationalize it.
And that's exactly the problem that SpreadServe address. A prototype spreadheet will operate far better in production as a scalable resilient SpreadServe server deployment than as a manually operated desktop spreadsheet.
I have a getting out the door in the morning with my running shoes on habit.
Whatever happens after that is a bonus. The goal is to just step outside in the morning ready for a run.