Discussed on lobste.rs and Hacker News.Two people. Eighteen accounts spanning checking, savings, credit cards, investments. Three currencies. Twenty minutes of work every week.One net worth number I actually trust.The payoff: A single, trustworthy net worth number growing over time.No app did exactly what I needed, so I built my own personal finance system using plain-text accounting principles and a powerful Python library called Beancount. This post shows you how I handle imports, investments, multi-currency, and a two-person view.How I got hereIt all started during the 2021 tax season. I had blocked out an entire weekend and was juggling statements, trying to compute capital gains, stressing about getting the numbers mixed up. “This is chaos”, I thought. “There must be a way to simplify this with automation”. Being a software engineer, I did what felt natural and hacked together a bunch of scripts on top of a database.

I gave a talk at the 2025 Tracing Summit last month titled “Perfetto: The Swiss Army Knife of Linux Client/Embedded Tracing”.

Overview of gemini protocol. Includes comparison to gopher.

Scientists and researchers from respected institutions lay out the case against age verification as we’re beginning to know it.

Hundreds of models

Quentin Stafford-Fraser’s blog

Excellent dance composition.

I use chezmoi for my dotfiles. To find out why and how to get started, check out my talk from Chemnitzer Linuxtage 2025 .Within chezmoi, you can use the file .chezmoiexternal.toml to download archives or git repositories during updates. This is particularly useful for managing external dependencies. Let me walk you through some common use cases.

Friedrich Merz hat sich mit seiner Haltung zu Belém nicht gerade beliebt gemacht in Brasilien. Man möge es ihm nachsehen. Am liebsten ist er daheim.

You probably sensed it, but weren’t able to articulate what was happening. Your loved ones think you’re losing your grasp on reality. For the last six months I’ve been incrementally changing the color scheme on my website every single day. I boiled you like a frog! Mu-wa-ha-ha. Don’t believe me? Try for yourself…