Comment by DaveZale

You need to write a book on these topics. You've already got the outline. I'll be first in line for a signed first edition. Seriously. A lot of us old timers who grew up with simpler, more user friendly software that nearly any user could streamline with their own code (even if it was just stacking macros into a small file)- a lot of us miss what was lost. Keep up the good work.