Why I created the hledger fan YouTube channel
Currently, there are 18 videos on my hledger fan YouTube channel, with the most popular video having some 3k views. How did this all start? There were three principal.
A not so capital idea for saving time
One timesaver I have noted for my workflow is that I can ignore capitalization when referring to account names. For example, I can have an account named Liabilities:Acme However,.
The richest hledger user in Babylon (part 3)
One of the lists in the book The Richest Man in Babylon is “The Five Laws of Gold.” The third law states: “Gold clingeth to the protection of the.
The richest hledger user in Babylon (Part 2)
The question of last week was “How can you apply some of the ideas in The Richest Man in Babylon as an hledger user?” Last week I discussed one.
The Richest hledger User in Babylon
Last week I mentioned the book The Richest Man in Babylon. This tome of financial advice is often regarded as a classic in the field. It occurred to me,.
Accounting before hledger
People have been doing accounting for a long time, way before hledger was created. I was reminded of this when visiting a museum this summer. One of the displays.
Atomic hledger habits
The book Atomic Habits recently caught my interest. As I learned about its central ideas, I started wondering how they could be applied to hledger. Here are three ways:.
hledger 1.31 now available, using “not,” awk part 2, podcast of the week
hledger version 1.31 now available I saw the recent announcement for the release of hledger 1.31, so getting the new version was one of my priorities for this last.
Trying my wings with Awk
Last week I described my goal of changing my hledger account names to lowercase (except for proper nouns). For example, instead of I wished to have In short, the.
Making changes with and without sed
As mentioned last week, I wanted to change my account names to lowercase. For example, instead of my current: Expenses:Groceries I wished to have: expenses:groceries I also had waxed.