vitalikpie

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   by vitalikpie 3mo ago

   Yeah this is exactly what I do under the hood. All the data is stored as Ints, charts use double for speed, views use decimal to display stuff properly in the user locale. P.S. Doubles are absolute evil for calculations: @Test fun
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   by vitalikpie 3mo ago

   Thanks. After all I'm a human too. I'm prone to AI psychosis.
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   by vitalikpie 3mo ago

   Thanks :)
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   by vitalikpie 3mo ago

   I was contemplating between hledger and GnuCash for a while and then choose GnuCash because it has pretty good UX for transactions entry. The missing piece for me was a mobile app. So trying closing this gap with HandsOnMoney. But I'll
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   by vitalikpie 3mo ago

   In hindsight do you think it was an right decision or too "pure"?
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   by vitalikpie 3mo ago

   Thanks for idea. I think I'll do another more techy article on this.
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   by vitalikpie 3mo ago

   Agree on this. Current situation is kinda broken: - people do not trust Plaid and Finicity - data is captive inside of bank portals - each damn CSV has it's own format
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   by vitalikpie 3mo ago

   God damn it! I did not bother to check the treasury. Thank you for catching mistake - I will correct it. I knew there will be something to hunt minor units.
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   by vitalikpie 3mo ago

   Yeah. Likely so. While at the same time, they may have some other reason - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9S6qD_Wylw
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    by vitalikpie 3mo ago

    Did not know that. Will update the article. Thank you!
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    by vitalikpie 3mo ago

    I'm using a free version, so if an LLM suggestions slipped in - it only a couple of them.
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    by vitalikpie 3mo ago

    Thanks for the info! But did you guys thought about fractional commodities those days? Or was it clear that it is going away?
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    by vitalikpie 3mo ago

    I think it's because thought-process is done in Russian, translated into English and the checked for grammar mistakes with Grammarly.
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    by vitalikpie 3mo ago

    Thanks! I believe blogs and indie products should have personality - otherwise it so easy to overlook them.
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    by vitalikpie 3mo ago

    Thanks!
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    by vitalikpie 3mo ago

    Do you do budget in GnuCash or somewhere else?
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    by vitalikpie 3mo ago

    Yeah, I'm just a developer mostly chatting with LLMs. I hope I'll develop a distinct style some day.
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    by vitalikpie 3mo ago

    Yeah, I thought about it when I first saw the coin cut into pieces - https://www.pirateglossary.com/glossary/pieces-of-eight But then why didn't they cut it into 10 pieces - https://etc.usf.edu/cli
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    by vitalikpie 3mo ago

    hm, I don't have any other ways to prove it. The thing is - I thought this is something LLM can't write about. Just imagine a prompt: "Hey Claude, go ahead and come up with idea why GnuCash stores numbers as fractions and com
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    by vitalikpie 3mo ago

    Yeah, sorry. It's kind of intentional. Did not want to give it a boring name like "Storing fractions vs decimals".
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    by vitalikpie 3mo ago

    yep, I'm Ukrainian
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    by vitalikpie 3mo ago

    haha, true. Thing is - I'm not a English speaker. But I chat a lot with Claude/ChatGPT - i feel like I'm picking the style from them unintentionally.
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    by vitalikpie 3mo ago

    Agree. I wish banks have their APIs open. It's 2026 and we have OIDC. But I used to actually pull the CSV once a week and feed it to GnuCash. It's pretty good at auto-categorization. Also I simplified my finances to only a couple
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    by vitalikpie 3mo ago

    Lived through something like this after USSR collapsed and before Hryvnya was introduced. Boy I remember the bread cost - 10,000,000 :D
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    by vitalikpie 3mo ago

    Curious what made you think it's AI slop?
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    by vitalikpie 3mo ago

    Yeah this one is my attempt to write without LLMs rewriting my thoughts. P.S. Came to the decision after going through https://thebullshitmachines.com/
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    by vitalikpie 3mo ago

    huh, sorry I'm really bad at writing - this is one of my first attempts
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    by vitalikpie 3mo ago

    It is :) No AI slop. I'm intentionally trying to write without LLM (my previous blog posts clearly disclose it).
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    Spanish traders set the standard for GnuCash database design(handson.money)

    133 points by vitalikpie 3mo ago|81 comments
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    by vitalikpie 6mo ago

    Well I'm seriously jealous about these posts. I rewrote this and that. One 10x engineer + Claude did everything in an hour. It feels like I'm getting gaslighted. I use AI at work with C#/Python - it fine. It can write some gl