ledger-pyreport: Formal accounting reports for ledger-cli

Ledger is a powerful command-line plain-text double-entry bookkeeping system. It is agnostic as to higher-level accounting principles, which makes it a very versatile tool for a wide variety of use cases, but does create challenges when extracting formal accounting reports. For example, Ledger struggles to… »

Incorrect accounting of unrealised gains in ledger-cli

Problem 1

Consider the following Ledger journal:

2019-07-01 Opening balances Assets:Current:Cash at Bank $1000.00 Equity:Opening Balances 2019-07-02 Application Assets:Current:International Account 100.00 EUR @ $1.10 Assets:Current:Cash at Bank 2019-08-02 Application Assets:Current:International Account 100.00 EUR @ $1.05 Assets:Current:Cash at Bank 2019-09-02 Redemption Assets:Current:Cash at Bank $57.50 Assets:Current:International

Broken Uno house rules; or, the importance of systems thinking, rather than ‘reasoning by Lego’

House rules are a staple of card and board games, and Uno is no exception. Recently with friends, we played some games of Uno, observing a common house rule:

House Rule 1. A player who incorrectly calls ‘Uno’ must draw two cards.¹ (Each player

Customising OsmAnd voice navigation to remove route numbers

OsmAnd is an open-source offline map and navigation app for Android, based on OpenStreetMap data.

In my experience, OsmAnd's voice navigation is the most polished of all open-source Android navigation apps. However, it has a frustrating habit of always announcing street names in conjunction with… »

MxR Plays had poor legal sense, but excellent YouTube sense

I am not a lawyer. I am not your lawyer, nor am I lawyers for MxR Plays or Jukin Media. This is not legal advice.

The Jukin Media and MxR Plays saga has come to an end, with MxR Plays and Jukin Media reaching a… »