Tabula Scripta: A spreadsheet for small data-driven apps

DRANK

One of my hobbies of the last two years has been writing webapps. Last year, in December and part of January, I wrote an app called Gills, a journaling tool written in Go. One feature I added to it was the ability to define custom pages for Gills written in Lua. Since then, I’ve used that ability to shape Gills in a lot of different ways.I’ve written pages that link to the cadre of webcomics I like, pages to keep a checklist of what I need to use on caters when I was working on Qdoba, pages that gave me overviews of blog post drafts, pages that keep track of notes on a backlog, and so on.Point is, over half of the appeal to Gills for me was having a CMS that I could script from my phone or a chromebook. The main problem with Gills-as-CMS, rather than Gills-as-Journal or Task management-lite, is that, at it’s core, Gills has two fundamental types of data: Notes and Scripts. Adding any kind of other idea means adding in a parsing layer over that.The inciting itch for Gills was the re…