When I was a teenager, my best friend Hugo invited me to join him on his family vacation with his parents. There was one condition though, I had to learn bridge so we could play every night. His parents tried to get his brother and sister to play, but they denied, so I had to […]
On changing your mind: Black Pete
This is me in blackface ‘Zwarte Piet’ (Black Pete) in 2010. At this party, a Chinese colleahue approached me and basically said that this was kinda no ok. And I was like “what? no! this is a party!” But now, I would not do blackface again! Slowly over time I have come to realize that […]
People on the internet…
Recently, I had a discussion with someone who refused to believe that bias against minorities is a thing, despite me explaining several scientific studies that prove that bias exist. The problem is not that this was a specifically ignorant person (in fact, he has a PhD, so you would think he understands scientific outcomes and how […]
Define your own functions in Excel using names
This post explains how you can make your own functions in Excel without VBA. Suppose you have a spreadsheet like this: Ugh! That is an ugly formula! Wouldn’t it be nicer if we could write something like =getCity(A2)? Of course, we could make a user-defined function (UDF) with VBA. VBA is powerful enough to create functions, […]
Expector 1.0.0.7 released
We just released a new version of Expector, with a number of bug fixes (thanks for all the reports!) but also a few new features: Test quality Clicking this button helps you determine how well your spreadsheet is tested. Expector calculates what percentage of non-empty cells in your spreadsheet that are covered (refered to) by at least […]
