smichael

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   by smichael 5y ago

   These two are quite interesting: - https://github.com/martinvonz/jj - https://pijul.org
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   by smichael 5y ago

   Try other browsers; grid view still works in some of them (Chrome IIRC).
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   by smichael 5y ago

   https://hledger.org/mobile-apps.html gives some ideas.
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   by smichael 5y ago

   Off topic: why does this happen ? I thought the point of Cloudflare is to prevent it.
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   by smichael 5y ago

   You can do it with Canonical's multipass, for one.
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   by smichael 5y ago

   I moved from Python to Haskell, when I had had enough of debugging runtime failures. Excellent choice, go for it.
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   by smichael 5y ago

   Thanks for explaining. My thinking was: by (optionally?) allowing the usual extra characters (#!python3 -> #!/usr/bin/env python3) it remains standard, avoiding an unnecessary roadblock for existing scripts and programmer
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   by smichael 5y ago

   I like it, thanks for sharing. Why not a standard unix shebang line at top of index.py ?
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   by smichael 5y ago

   The linked Tour is part of the documentation, which at a glance looks extremely extensive. You mention some issues; are you saying these docs are too hard to discover and lacking a good-enough TOC or index ?
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    by smichael 5y ago

    https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/issues/1684
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    by smichael 5y ago

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28420797 can be useful.
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    by smichael 5y ago

    Thanks for these comments, good to know!
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    by smichael 5y ago

    By all means - see you in one of the chats! https://plaintextaccounting.org/#mail-listsirc
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    by smichael 5y ago

    > I mean I want to log income, spendings, exchanges in multiple currencies (or commodities), and then be able to see reports in a single currency - All the major PTA tools support this - perhaps the chat could help ? > my net worth, m
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    by smichael 5y ago

    http://xbrl.squarespace.com aims at this problem, I think ?
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    by smichael 5y ago

    Here's my quick partial history of Plain Text Accounting (PTA), to catch you up: - 2003: John Wiegley creates the field with the Ledger command line tool and its file format. - 2007, 2008: I and Martin Blais create two new "ledger
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    by smichael 5y ago

    > and input validation Emacs users should look into Flycheck integration, eg https://hledger.org/editors.html#flycheck-hledger . Real time indication of parse and balance errors as you edit is nice!
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    by smichael 5y ago

    Another advantage over spreadsheets I forgot: more guide rails and more common ground (shared practices, howtos, support) with other users. Spreadsheets are a tabular report construction kit, PTA is an accounting system construction kit.
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    by smichael 5y ago

    https://hledger.org/mobile-apps.html PS a little daily-ish data-entry-and-reconciling ritual, with a pleasant tool setup, can be quite satisfying! I actually look forward to it. (That right there is part of my PTA success s
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    by smichael 5y ago

    True! I will look into it, thanks for the report.
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    by smichael 5y ago

    ledger-mode in Emacs has some excellent account and description auto-completion (warning, may require a bit of configuration to suit your taste). hledger add, hledger-iadd and hledger-web are some of the data entry uis with auto completion.
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    by smichael 5y ago

    Do you mean, in the sense of https://hledger.org/investments.html#a-more-correct-entry ? balancednoautoconversion validation may be relevant, if so ( https://hledger.org/hledger.html#strict-checks )
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    by smichael 5y ago

    It is a good question to ask. You say the FAQ has addressed it... I guess it was not convincing ? (If you remember where, please point me to it..) PTA tools, some of them at least, can scale well from beginner-level single entry accounting,
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    by smichael 5y ago

    Some possibilities: * Use a version control system - keep journal files in eg a github repo; control access, manage pull requests, audit changes in the usual way. * Use multiple files - the journal can be composed from multiple files, each
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    by smichael 5y ago

    I have not used the SQL output, but I hope it's like all other hledger output: the number formatting is configurable (following your data format by default, but overrideable).
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    by smichael 5y ago

    Another data point: 95% of my data entry (all but cash) is automatic CSV download (using plaid2qif) and mostly-automatic deduplicating import (I tweak the import rules when needed). So, a daily `make import`. I have also run this from a nig
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    by smichael 5y ago

    Spreadsheets have lots of strengths. I believe one of the difficulties is (a) managing an increasingly large number of transactions over time, with (b) an uncertain number of postings to (c) arbitrary accounts in a hierarchy. Though I haven
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    by smichael 5y ago

    Currently yes. hledger has rudimentary SQL export ( https://hledger.org/hledger.html#output-format ).
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    by smichael 5y ago

    Site maintainer here. Thanks for the link! Suggestions are welcome for next time I'm tweaking the site.
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    by smichael 5y ago

    My favourite of all the posts here. I would love to read a how-to for ignorant techies, describing all the details and how it takes hardly any time.