Siddhant Goel

Staff Software Engineer with decade plus experience building and managing production software. Active Maintainer of multiple Python open-source libraries with millions of PyPI downloads

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10 years of personal finances in plain text files

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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.