Comment on This Week in Self-Hosted (12 January 2024)

savedbythezsh@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• krash@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve been using it for a while without any noticeable problems. What issues did you run into?

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  • machinin@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Out of curiosity, what do you use it for?

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    • krash@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      All kinds of stuff. I use it when I need a way to structure my data:

      • I use it to keep track of software / libs that are of interest, what they are an alternative to. See example here: ibb.co/ncsdt0W
      • I’ve also tried to recreate the functionality of a personal relational management (a la MonicaHQ, or per this post: medium.com/…/my-homegrown-personal-crm-87dffbcf54…) but found it to be an overengineered solution.
      • I also used it to interact and store data through my python apps, to avoid dealing with it directly in python.
      • You can also use it as a Kanban board
      • Also, I’ve been trying to use it as an excel replacement - which is an overengineered solution but you get impeccable dataquality.

      Nocodb is a bit wonky, but it is quite easy to work with (front- and backend) and since everything is in the database format you choose - you’re in control of how you want your data.

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      • machinin@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Thanks, this is very helpful.

        So, is it kind of a replacement for MS Access, except a non-relation db?

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  • savedbythezsh@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t remember exactly, it was around 2 years ago. It was easy to set up, but I found the feature set to be lacking some essentials, and I ran into a couple of big bugs. Couldn’t really replace my airtable setup yet. Happy to give it another try though!

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