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10 years of personal finances in plain text files
I've been tracking my finances using Beancount in plain text files for 10 years. Here are the numbers, the workflow, and why I believe plaintext accounting will outlive any app.
Siddhant Goel
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Trying out Zed after more than a decade of Vim/Neovim
After 15 years with Neovim, I'm trying out Zed as my daily driver text editor. In this post, I share why I'm switching and what my initial impressions are.
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How you can track your personal finances using Python
In this post, I'd like to describe how you can track your personal finances using a workflow that is highly focused on data privacy, is 100% self-hosted, and uses only the Python ecosystem.