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Eventually consistent plain text accounting
Over the past six months, I’ve tracked my money with hledger—a plain text double-entry accounting system written in Haskell. It’s been surprisingly painless.
But after stumbling on Dmitry Astapov’s “ Full-fledged hledger ” wiki, it clicked— eventually consistent accounting. This transaction shows that on Jan 1, 2024, money moved from income:work into assets:checking —Payday. Spending over six months, generated by piping hledger → gnuplotBefore diving into accounting software, these were my goals:
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