
Karan Sharma
@mrkaran_ • 5,679 subscribers
Tech @zerodhaonline. Backend, Ops, Infra stuff. Past: GSOC'16 w/ @ThePSF. Indie music nerd. Badminton. Cooking. Road Trips.
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Built a native macOS viewer for ledger plain-text accounting file format. Most expense tracking apps are built around lock-in. Proprietary formats, mandatory accounts, servers you don't control. When their VC funding dries up, they shut down or pivot, and you start over. Plain-text accounting takes the opposite approach: your finances live in a .ledger file. Open it in vim. Query it with awk. Put it in git and get a full audit trail of every change you've ever made. It's just a plain text file. Ledge is just a lens over that file. Fast, native, no cloud. Following kepano 's file over app philosophy
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