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Hello DEV, I'm a shop owner who started writing his own tools

Hi everyone. I'm Eric, and I'm probably not the usual person here. I ran a small retail shop for eleven years, and I don't write code for a living. What got me here was a spreadsheet. For years I tracked cash flow, stock and pricing in one giant workbook that only I understood. Last year I started learning a little Python to clean it up, and somewhere along the way I got hooked on making small…

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