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Cake day: June 18th, 2023

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  • I still love the trackpoint and use it almost exclusively if the notebook is not connected on the docking station.

    It is just awesome if you can control the mouse while still keeping the hands on the middle of the keyboard.
    It’s so much faster than to kove up and down and also more ergonomic, especially in the train when the laptop sits on my lap.
    The middle button enables easy scrolling on webpages (although the vim browser extention makes it even easier ther) or documents…

    Nothing else I used was able to beat this setup. And I used a lot of different devices over the tome





  • Since most budgeting tools I found didn’t satisfy my need (no cloud, automatic categorization of transactions etc.) I tried to create my own tool to categorize my transactions using camt.053 and csv files which I downloaded from my banks. Got bugged down with the presentation via bokeh, so it was pretty crude.

    I recently found beancount in combination with fava, which solved most of my problems I had with my own tool. And the good thing: I was able to re-use most of my ‘auto-categorization’ code with only small changes. Not sure how universal my importer is, but with a bit of python know-how it should be quite easy to create an importer for your specific bank export.

    From my experience, the csvs I got from my bank was insufficient for automatic mapping, which is why I’m using camt.053 where possible. As the camt.053 is not very common in many countries you could go for OFX files.










  • Also, there’s usually no reason as a user to pay monthly for a feature in a self-hosted application.
    The Dev has no monthly costs for that feature. Let me buy the application/feature, and if you need money for a new feature, create a feature that is worth buying again. No need to bully the user into a monthly subscription…




  • Yep just swapped over from a self hosted solution with gitlab and sublime… But that was to restrictive and the overall experience wasnt really good…

    I then found a post somewhere on lemmy a post abotu PKMS and what people are using… One was obsidian… So I tried it and I’m really happy

    Edit: I saw some comments about some missing self hosting. Since the notes are saved as standard md files you easily ca sync them with whatever you want… I set it up with my synology NAS and DS Drive, but any tool which can sync two-ways should be fine