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Bill_French · Jan 01, 2023

A few days ago, I tried to help another Airtable enthusiast concerning a question about timelines. According to this community platform, I have written about 3250 posts since 2018, and despite my grandfatherly age, I recall one such post about Vega-...

Bill_French · Dec 27, 2022

This is a Tell; not a Show.Prompt engineering, also known as shaping prompts to get exactly what you want from GPT-3 and ChatGPT will eventually bite you.This post is here only so that I can say 6 months from now - I tried to warn you.The core model ...

Bill_French · Dec 27, 2022

The new Airtable community has many functional flaws, but this missive is about one that is purely a design choice that annoys me. Don't take it too seriously, but enjoy it and let me know your thoughts. Members are classified by planet names; Pluto ...

Bill_French · Dec 06, 2022

... it's because I'm walking away.I have honestly and with open-mindedness tried to use the new "community" in a productive and supportive manner, but it's just not working for me. There's something about this new Khoros platform that makes it diffic...

Bill_French · Oct 21, 2022

Continuing the discussion from No More Static URLs for Attachments?: No More Static URLs for Attachments? But I’ve now lost hope that this WON’T happen if we complain enough… I head back from the support team who said they would share my concern...

Bill_French · Jan 06, 2023

Bots now use AI to answer questions, and they're really getting good at it. They can also ferret out hidden fields using headless browsers - it's an arms race; you cannot win that war in this way. If you have so many bot entries in a database that it...

Bill_French · Jan 06, 2023

I don't typically write Airtable formulas because of this, but I'm sure a lot of people will like this.

Bill_French · Jan 03, 2023

@Jayme_Richardso, @itsmike used Simplescraper to collect every post I've made in this community into Airtable itself, and it found all 3,188 with author links, etc - cool stuff. Having a consultant who knows as much about Airtable as his scraping cra...

Bill_French · Jan 02, 2023

My thoughts: read on...

Bill_French · Jan 02, 2023

My thoughts: read on...

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