I’ve been using hledger for personal accounting for a while now, and one thing that always bothered me was accessing my financial reports when I wasn’t at my main computer. I wanted to check my balance or look at my spending patterns from anywhere, but I didn’t want to set up and maintain a server just for this. The hledger-web command exists, but it requires keeping a server running somewhere. That felt like overkill for what I needed — just readonly access to my reports from time to time. Read more

Discovering Plain Text Accounting I’ve always found finance management and budgeting difficult. I don’t enjoy spreadsheets, I’ve never used Excel properly, and most budget tools felt either too simplistic or too complicated. When I started building my house, this weakness became a real problem. I had to keep track of large expenses, plan ahead, and make sure I didn’t overspend. So I started looking for a tool that could help me do that. Read more