simonmic, 6 days ago to random

#ThisWeekInHledger

• -I can now be overridden by -s or check
• commands list updated
• doc updates: commands list, report start & end date, smart dates, balance command
• site updates: install, FAQ reorg
• Docker image for 1.33.1 is available
• more: https://hledger.org/news.html#this-week-in-hledger-2024-05-10

#hledger #plaintextaccounting

simonmic, 11 days ago to random

#ThisWeekInHledger 2024-05-03

• Released hledger 1.33.1
• parse include directives with trailing whitespace
• support ghc-debug for analysing memory/profile info
• commands list reorg
• check ordereddates before balance assertions
• provide a basic openapi specification of hledger-web’s HTTP-JSON API
• doc updates: github release windows install instructions, check command, Contributor Quick Start, Developer FAQ, misc site tweaks
  …more https://hledger.org/news.html#this-week-in-hledger-2024-05-03

#plaintextaccounting #hledger

simonmic, 15 days ago (edited 15 days ago) to random

Unreasonably pleased by a tiny tweak to #plaintextaccounting scripts. I keep most of them in a #Justfile. I have these useful help/h recipes:

list recipes, optionally filtered by REGEX.

@help *REGEX:
if [[ '{{ REGEX }}' == '' ]]; then just -lu; else just -lu --color=always | rg --pcre2 -i '{{ REGEX }}'; true; fi

alias h := help

and shell alias j=just; so to list foo-related scripts I’m often typing

j h foo

It's short, but… I added alias h='just help’, now it’s much better:

h foo

🎉

simonmic, 16 days ago to haskell

I'm pleased to announce hledger 1.33.1, with several fixes,
installability improvements, and doc updates.

• https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/releases/1.33.1
• https://hledger.org/relnotes.html#2024-05-02-hledger-1331
• https://hledger.org/install

#hledger is free, fast, reliable, multicurrency, double-entry,
#PlainTextAccounting software for unix, mac, windows, and the web,
written in #Haskell for reliability and longevity.
For help, join our chat or mail list: https://hledger.org/support

#PersonalFinance

simonmic, 17 days ago to random

#ThisWeekInHledger 2024-04-26

• run checks in a well-defined order, and tweak that order
• check ordereddates: drop --date2 support; check primary dates only
• balcmds: show digit groups marks in html output again [#2196]
• retire the main Makefile
• relnotes.hs: generate/update release notes from changelogs
• md-issue-refs.el: manage issue links in markdown
• examples: vanguard, fidelity csv rules updates
• doc updates
• more… https://hledger.org/news.html#this-week-in-hledger-2024-04-26

#plaintextaccounting #hledger

simonmic, 24 days ago to random

#ThisWeekInHledger 2024-04-19
Worked on release process, github workflows, platform build issues, mac arm release binaries, CLI commands list, a hledger add ANSI bug, misc doc updates, and released hledger 1.33.
…more: https://hledger.org/news.html#this-week-in-hledger-2024-04-19

#plaintextaccounting #hledger

simonmic, 29 days ago (edited 29 days ago) to PersonalFinance

I'm pleased to announce hledger 1.33!
Highlights: close enhancements, hledger-ui 'dark' theme, GHC 9.8 support, Apple ARM binaries, and the usual improvements/fixes. Many thanks to all contributors.

• https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/releases/1.33
• https://hledger.org/relnotes.html#2024-04-18-hledger-133
• https://hledger.org/install

#hledger is free, fast, reliable, multicurrency, double-entry,
#PlainTextAccounting software for unix, mac, windows, and the web. For help, join our chat or mail list: https://hledger.org/support

#PersonalFinance #haskell

simonmic, 1 month ago to random

#ThisWeekInHledger:
Investigated/refactored/discussed a problem with boolean query expressions; disallowed date: in OR expressions. Required process >=1.6.19.0 for HSEC-2024-0003. Updated docs: balance assertions, balancesheetequity.

plaintextaccounting.org updates: FAQ, Borrowing and lending, Investing and trading, Shared expenses, project ledger.

more: https://hledger.org/news.html#this-week-in-hledger-2024-04-12

#hledger #plaintextaccounting

simonmic, 1 month ago to random

#ThisWeekInHledger

Hail PTA fans! Doc updates on hledger.org and plaintextaccounting.org;
a new finance/donations page and public ledger for the PTA site and PTA forum, which is now hosted and seeking sponsors;
fixes for roi --value; a Go client for hledger-web, and more:

https://hledger.org/news.html#this-week-in-hledger-2024-04-05

#hledger #plaintextaccounting #golang

ellane, 1 month ago to Excel

Should software like #Obsidian, #Excel, and the various flavours of #PlainTextAccounting be wrestled into doing things that can often be done more easily with other apps, or with #analog solutions? Consider using the 3-step recipe from my latest newsletter for choosing tools that support your values and promote peaceful contentment.

Medium (includes Friend link) https://medium.com/produclivity/ptpl-098-one-tool-for-everything-or-separate-simple-solutions-85f8c963d62f
Blog (no paywall) https://www.blog.plaintextpaperless.com/p/ptpl-098-one-tool-for-everything

simonmic, 1 month ago to random

#ThisWeekInHledger 2024-03-29

Doc rewrites, error message improvements.

Misc:

• More discussion of hledger-interest, a call for improvements,
  and a pull request by Dmitry Astapov.
• Some discussion of exporting to Excel/spreadsheets.
• How much attention to bookkeeping is just right ? blog post

Feel free to share your experience reports or interesting links (they don't have to be new) on the PTA forum.

... more: https://hledger.org/news.html#this-week-in-hledger-2024-03-29

#hledger #plaintextaccounting

simonmic, 1 month ago to random

https://forum.plaintextaccounting.org/t/pta-forum-news-2024-03-18/207

#plaintextaccounting

simonmic, 2 months ago to random

#ThisWeekInHledger:
No hledger dev work this week. The new PTA forum continues to work well. docker-finance, a new cryptocurrency-supporting workflow system using hledger-flow, and the older workflows Full-fledged hledger, hledger-flow and rtrledger,
have been added at https://plaintextaccounting.org/#workflows.
More: https://hledger.org/news.html#this-week-in-hledger-2024-03-15

#hledger #plaintextaccounting

zenitram, 2 months ago to random

There was only a single bank that I knew of, Wise, that let a customer use their APIs to read your account transactions... but not anymore, because of regulation 🫠

In the EU, that's how PSD2 forces you to "buy" API access to your own personal bank account transaction data through a third-party🤦‍♂️

#gdpr #psd2 #data #api #banks #plaintextaccounting

simonmic, 2 months ago to random

#plaintextaccounting fans, I'm pleased to announce a new venue for PTA-related discussion!

https://forum.plaintextaccounting.org

See the pinned "Welcome..." and "A trial of Discourse..." posts for background. In short, don't want our collective knowledge locked in and monetised by Reddit, and also I'm ready for modern UX and features, and I think some of you may feel the same way.

You can search, read by web or RSS, and if you sign up, read/post by web or email. Hope you’ll drop by and help make it great!

simonmic, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

I'm probably getting ahead of myself, but

https://discuss.plaintextaccounting.org/t/a-trial-of-discourse-for-plain-text-accounting-discussions

Discourse for #plaintextaccounting discussions - any thoughts ? (See link for rationale)

simonmic, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

#hledger news hounds, it's a bonanza issue #ThisWeekInHledger !

A lot of work this week: bugfixing, updating for GHC 9.8, and improving docs. We weren't ready to release 1.33 on March 1st, but it's near.

• support unicode space characters in numbers
• add close --round option, like print
• more private stats output, add memory stats
• dev builds now on ghc 9.8
• bug fixing, doc improvements
  …more:
  https://hledger.org/news.html#this-week-in-hledger-2024-03-01

#plaintextaccounting

simonmic, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

holy god that #hledger manual is a wall of text.

(Maintenance/web-publishing/UX constraints tend to keep it as one big document per executable.)

Today I used a good vertical monitor which let me see more of it, helping me to improve the flow a bit, which I'm pleased about.

In markdown the manual is currently at 53000 words, or 60000 if you include hledger-ui and hledger-web. Making it a novel, not a novella. 😅

#plaintextaccounting #techwriting

simonmic, 2 months ago to random

Here's what happened #ThisWeekInHledger:

• use a symbolic link's target's directory for relative include paths
• interpret glob patterns in $LEDGER_FILE
• implicitly declare the date/date2/type tags
• add close --assertion-type option
• tweak close --assert's default description
• various doc updates
• hledger-ui dark theme (Jonathan Dowland)
  Read more... https://hledger.org/news.html#this-week-in-hledger-2024-02-23

#hledger #plaintextaccounting

simonmic, 2 months ago to random

There's our #PlainTextAccounting community wisdom being monetised:

> Reddit signs $60M content licensing deal with AI company https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39409499

> Reddit has filed for an initial public offering … it generated $804M in revenue in 2023 … Content on Reddit, which had over 73M daily active users ... has become particularly important for training artificial intelligence models. "We believe there is an emerging opportunity in data licensing" ... just inked a content licensing deal with Google

18+ jfdm, 2 months ago to random

Does anyone in my circles have experience/advice for using #hledger to track, locally, grant spending?

simonmic, 2 months ago to random

Learn from my mistake, make your #PlainTextAccounting scripting life easier: I really, really wish I had not used spaces in account names.

Added to https://plaintextaccounting.org/Choosing-accounts .