Al Chen

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

New York City Joined on Nov 23, 2018 https://coda.io/@atc

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Solutions Architect at Coda

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Mar 4

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

#discuss #coda #notion #productivity

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Published a lengthy blog post walking through building task d...

Oct 5 '20

Best free resources to learn React in 2020

Awesome list, didn't know about the Egghead tutorial. Checkin...

May 29 '20

How to deploy Craft CMS with Postgres on Heroku

Hey Andrei, I actually didn't explore doing database backup...

Jan 23 '20

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Awesome to see two of my favorite communities come together...

Jan 22 '20

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*Wrote a technical tutorial on setting up Craft on Heroku f...

Oct 5 '19

How to deploy Craft CMS with Postgres on Heroku

Lot of additional steps that I had to discover on my own. F...

Oct 2 '19

Measuring Event Success; Entering the Matrix

Thanks Amanda, appreciate the detailed response!

Jul 31 '19

Measuring Event Success; Entering the Matrix

Thanks for the article, Amanda. Two questions: 1) How did ...

Jul 30 '19

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Al Chen

Jan 15 '21

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

#googleappsscript #peloton #python #javascript

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Nov 20 '20

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

#productivity #books #career

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Oct 5 '20

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

#projectmanagement #productivity #tutorial

19 min read

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Sep 4 '20

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

#coda #productivity #googlesheets #jira

8 min read

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Aug 19 '20

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

#tutorial #automation #workflows

10 min read

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May 4 '20

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

#googlesheets #coda #googleappsscript #tutorial

31 min read

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Apr 13 '20

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

#excel #googlesheets #data #podcast

3 min read

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Mar 11 '20

On mastering your tools

#discuss #productivity #programming #motivation

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Jan 28 '20

How Playing StarCraft Can Teach You About Startups and Life

#discuss #career #startup

10 min read

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Jan 13 '20

5 Ways to Succeed As A New Remote Worker

#career #productivity #remotework

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Oct 24 '19

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

#news #startup

5 min read

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Oct 7 '19

Interview about being a remote worker on Remote Tools

#discuss #career #remotework #productivity

9 min read

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Oct 2 '19

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

#nocode #inclusion #prototyping #hackathons

8 min read

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Oct 1 '19

How to deploy Craft CMS with Postgres on Heroku

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Sep 10 '19

How I Stumbled Into Remote Work And Never Looked Back

#remote #career #productivity #remotework

6 min read

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Jul 3 '19

Hacker Ethic from Building the ITS system in the 1960s

#discuss #computerscience

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Jun 10 '19

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

#discuss #programming #computerscience #writing

2 min read

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May 21 '19

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

#productivity #javascript #googlesheets #googleappsscript

17 min read

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May 1 '19

Count the number of blank values in a range in Excel

#excel #productivity #tutorial

3 min read

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May 13 '19

Future of Work: The Maker Generation

#makers #meetup #coda #producthunt

3 min read

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Feb 15 '19

The overlooked benefit of no-code tools

#discuss #nocode #productivity #beginners

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9 min read

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Feb 6 '19

Coda 1.0 publicly available

#discuss #productivity #webdev

6 min read

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Jan 31 '19

Why I Dislike Paste Special Values In Excel

#excel #database #automation #spreadsheets

9 min read

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Jan 11 '19

Increasing Productivity By Opening Your Data with APIs

#api #saas #opensource #productivity

4 min read

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Dec 21 '18

The hotness of O RLY Cover Generator

#discuss

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Dec 14 '18

How To Build A Live Audience Polling and Voting App

#productivity

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Dec 10 '18

How To Build a Product Plan Example or Roadmap

#productivity #programming #agile

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9 min read

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Dec 1 '18

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

#productivity #career

1 min read

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Nov 26 '18

I Never Learned How To Code

#discuss #career #beginners

3 min read

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Nov 28 '18

How To Choose Time-Tracking Software

#productivity #software #excel

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