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Al Chen

Former Googler. Live and die in spreadsheets. Building solutions at Coda.io.

Location New York City Joined Joined on  Personal website https://coda.io/@atc github website

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Solutions Architect at Coda

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10 features where Coda is 10X better than Notion in 2022

10 features where Coda is 10X better than Notion in 2022

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Analyze your Peloton workout stats with real-time updates (template and scripts)

Analyze your Peloton workout stats with real-time updates (template and scripts)

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Interviews with entrepreneurs and digital nomads from Tim Ferriss' The 4-Hour Workweek

Interviews with entrepreneurs and digital nomads from Tim Ferriss' The 4-Hour Workweek

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How to build tasks dependencies with durations in Google Sheets, ClickUp, Monday, Wrike, SmartSheet, Notion, and Coda

How to build tasks dependencies with durations in Google Sheets, ClickUp, Monday, Wrike, SmartSheet, Notion, and Coda

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How to export and analyze Jira issues in Google Sheets vs. Coda

How to export and analyze Jira issues in Google Sheets vs. Coda

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How to extract data from tables in multiple Google Docs and combine into one table in Coda

How to extract data from tables in multiple Google Docs and combine into one table in Coda

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How to sync data from Coda to Google Sheets (and vice versa) with Google Apps Script tutorial

How to sync data from Coda to Google Sheets (and vice versa) with Google Apps Script tutorial

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Dear Analyst #29: Working with dynamic array functions and formulas that spill

Dear Analyst #29: Working with dynamic array functions and formulas that spill

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On mastering your tools

On mastering your tools

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How Playing StarCraft Can Teach You About Startups and Life

How Playing StarCraft Can Teach You About Startups and Life

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5 Ways to Succeed As A New Remote Worker

5 Ways to Succeed As A New Remote Worker

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Simpler, cleaner, faster. Coda 2.0 is ready for your team.

Simpler, cleaner, faster. Coda 2.0 is ready for your team.

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Interview about being a remote worker on Remote Tools

Interview about being a remote worker on Remote Tools

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4 Reasons No-Code Hackathons Are The Best Type Of Hackathons

4 Reasons No-Code Hackathons Are The Best Type Of Hackathons

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How to deploy Craft CMS with Postgres on Heroku

How to deploy Craft CMS with Postgres on Heroku

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How I Stumbled Into Remote Work And Never Looked Back

How I Stumbled Into Remote Work And Never Looked Back

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Hacker Ethic from Building the ITS system in the 1960s

Hacker Ethic from Building the ITS system in the 1960s

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Review of Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World

Review of Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World

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How to sync data between Coda docs (and Google Sheets) using Google Apps Script

How to sync data between Coda docs (and Google Sheets) using Google Apps Script

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Count the number of blank values in a range in Excel

Count the number of blank values in a range in Excel

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Future of Work: The Maker Generation

Future of Work: The Maker Generation

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The overlooked benefit of no-code tools

The overlooked benefit of no-code tools

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Coda 1.0 publicly available

Coda 1.0 publicly available

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Why I Dislike Paste Special Values In Excel

Why I Dislike Paste Special Values In Excel

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Increasing Productivity By Opening Your Data with APIs

Increasing Productivity By Opening Your Data with APIs

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The hotness of O RLY Cover Generator

The hotness of O RLY Cover Generator

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How To Build A Live Audience Polling and Voting App

How To Build A Live Audience Polling and Voting App

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How To Build a Product Plan Example or Roadmap

How To Build a Product Plan Example or Roadmap

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I created Tim Ferriss' dreamlining and fear-setting exercises in Coda

I created Tim Ferriss' dreamlining and fear-setting exercises in Coda

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I Never Learned How To Code

I Never Learned How To Code

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How To Choose Time-Tracking Software

How To Choose Time-Tracking Software

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