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siddhant

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About siddhant

https://sgoel.dev

Recent public activity

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    Comment #48889443

    I'm continuing to work on Personal Finances Python [1], a book that teaches software developers how to track their finances using the Python ecosystem, Double Entry Bookkeeping, an…

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    Comment #47714458

    This should be fixed now!

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    Comment #47701211

    Definitely something on my end. Thanks for the heads up! I’ll try to fix it tonight.

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    Comment #47701059

    I’m building ATProto Alternatives ( https://atprotoalternatives.com ). I started looking into AT Protocol recently and find it very interesting, so I started collecting a list of d…

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    Comment #46467720

    Thanks a lot for the shout out, Michael!

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    Comment #42821320

    I think I'm actively trying to not do anything dynamic/complicated. :) If Zed breaks things too much in the future (to the point that its JSON config doesn't let me do something I …

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    Comment #29550026

    Thanks for the feedback! You can find the TOC here: https://personalfinancespython.com/files/toc.pdf (will try to link to it from the website later during the day).

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    Comment #29549793

    This book mainly focuses on extracting data from CSV files. Generally speaking though, if the PDF statements your bank sends have a deterministic format, extracting data should be …

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    Comment #29549001

    Just added another comment with a link to a sample chapter. Thanks!

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    Comment #29548998

    And here’s a sample chapter: https://personalfinancespython.com/files/sample.pdf (I couldn’t modify the original comment or add replies to it anymore, hence posting a new one.)

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    Comment #29544720

    Thanks for the heads up! I’m trying to change it but apparently it’s not possible to adjust URLs after submission? Hoping one of the mods could help with this!

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    Comment #29544441

    About 4 years ago I started looking for a privacy-friendly way to keep track of my money across different accounts. While searching, I found Plain Text Accounting [1], which means …

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    Looks cool! This will definitely be of interest to folks using Beancount. I just added a link to it on https://awesome-beancount.com/#tools .

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    Comment #28422267

    Martin's blog post is awesome! It helped clear up a bunch of stuff for me too. And on a somewhat unrelated note: his book on building data-intensive applications is another goldmin…

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    That's actually a good point. You only need to write Python code if you're using the Beancount importers framework and intend to use bean-identify and/or bean-extract.

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