Post #3609676

I haven't published my accounting tools because they're probably the most idiosyncratic software I maintain, and I'm not sure they'd be useful to anyone else! Ways in which I am a weirdo here: - I balance all of my accounts every month because financial trauma from growing up in an endless series of recessions. - I do my personal books with double-entry accounting, mark-to-market, and a large portion of GAAP rules. (I studied accounting at community college during my first startup, thinking it would help; it didn't really.) - My tools are entirely command-line and generate nicely formatted ASCII financial reports. - All records are kept in git. "Received" records are stored as immutable files (CSV, PDF, whatever). Adjustments are typically expressed in text files containing RON, or as "sidecar" CSV files adding metadata (thanks for that name, photography tools). - Adding a new financial institution, or handling a change in their output format, requires writing Rust. Now, all this being said, the uxn ecosystem demonstrates that sometimes releasing a very individual, very idiosyncratic toolset can be inspirational. Though I think accounting is less of an attractor than gamedev.