Escaping Excel

I now kind of run of my local museum. Our current collection management system is a chaotic mess of Excel sheets where item descriptions, dimensions, and statuses are crammed intounorganizeds column. Commercial software vendors want an absurd amount of money to fix this. Screw that. @lumilla/archivemanager aims to be a open-source desktop app to fix this.

At this time I spent two and a half hours-ish drafting the foundation of what it will be. I opted to go with Rust to learn new stuff, and because it’s hot and trendy. I have never properly written anything like this before, so I read a lot of docs for my stack of choice (Slint, SeaORM). Learned a lot of new stuff, (e.g. Rust does not want a semicolon on whatever a function returns), came across weird “STATUS_HEAP_CORRUPTION” errors that ceased to exist the moment I tried to fix them.

Next up is the real functionality, currently the app is just a rough UI that creates a SQLite database.