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This is a blog post about how relying on coding agents are making software engineers who create every intricate function of a codebase, into farmers who grow codebases, doctors who…

I am Aswin ( https://aswinmohan.me ) and I am building Cycle. It's an integrated financial platform that combines business banking, an inbuilt accounting ledger and payroll. By com…

Hi HN, I am Aswin Mohan( https://aswinmohan.me ), a full-stack mobile/web developer. I have been working on WorkBill ( https://workbill.co ) for the past 6 weeks on the side and wa…

A modern QuickBooks, based on beancount, WorkBill ( https://workbill.co ). You can play with it at https://demo.workbill.co . Unlike traditional accounting platforms we expose the …

warmed my heart, wishing you a great life together

This blog started my love for mechanical watches. Love how intricate and cohesive the entire mechanism is.

My bad. The design is based on https://fragment.dev/docs#design-your-ledger . They have detailed docs about designing proper ledgers.

We use a proper ledger to track the flow of money. It was sizable technical investment to get the schema right, but it has made the subsequent implementations of features easier.

You are right about missing the web part. It's substantial space that we miss out on mobile. But mobile lets you enter transactions on the go, and is always there when you need it.…

Automated transaction reconciliation will be a major feature in the future versions of the app. I have yet to use an app that reliably does automatic transaction registration and t…

Thanks. Updated the data-collection section.

It's a characteristic of double-entry accounting. Everything is an account and transactions move money between accounts. When you receive money from your salary in your bank accoun…

Thanks for the catch. Fixed and pushed.

Hello HN! I am Aswin Mohan, full-stack mobile + web developer and I built PaperMoney( https://getpaper.money ). PaperMoney is a double-entry accounting based personal finance app. …

In India we use Aadhar, the associated phone number and a digi-locker app to verify our identity. Mostly used for governmental, financial and insurance verification. Works seamless…

I bought a mechanical watch after reading this blog post and it's been my daily driver since. It always brings a smile to look at it and see what fine craftsmanship and mechanical …

Does a system exist where we can train open source LLM models in this way? Maybe distribute it across a cluster of computers with credit points that can be later used for inference…

I use the Moonlander with a layout that doesn't deviate much from the standard Mac keyboard. Even though I sacrifice a little bit of single keypress magics that I can do on my Moon…

Mine is at https://aswinmohan.me

While working on my startup as a solo-founder I used to follow a TDD approach supported mostly by Integration tests. I mostly focused on the user happy paths with limited coverage …

I have ported a backoffice app from Phoenix LiveView to a Retool(Frontend) + Vercel(Api) + Supabase(database) collection and it's holding out really great. The primitives of Retool…