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https://joyful.com/jj#Do+I+have+to+let+jj+auto-track+files+i...

You can turn off auto-tracking.

I didn't understand what you meant by "haskell and lisp don't scale". Are you saying their library ecosystems are weak ?

This is great, thanks.

You can turn that off (I do). In your config file:

    [snapshot]
    auto-track = "none()"

Bonus tips:

    # show help by default, as the subcommands do
    [ui]
    default-command = "-h"

    # more readable log (also affects jjui)
    [templates]
    log = 'builtin_log_oneline'

You can turn off the auto-tracking, and add your files manually.

And in case anyone else finds this thread: I tried the app, and it's great!

Mine do. The phone's lightning connector socket has become "flaky" (from age, or lint..), and at this point I must hold the phone in hand rather than in pocket while walking, for uninterrupted playback.

Ah, that makes sense.

It sounds cool, congrats!

If it's based on hledger, you'll need to license your source code under GPLv3, won't you ?

The linked blog post about making this is an excellent read.

Think of it as an intuitive alternate notation. + means debit, - means credit.

This seems good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRoYKBXWJes

Some recent notes, somewhat mac-specific:

"I'm having trouble finding one true activity monitor on mac. I tried all of these on mac with certain criteria in mind (reliability, renicing, good UX):

- Activity Monitor: doesn't update charts when in background, doesn't show nice value, doesn't allow renice, doesn't hide idle processes

- Apple's top: non-standard, information overload, no nice/renice/idle/filter

- htop: doesn't show accurate process cpu usages (known bug awaiting release), no idle hiding. (Use latest release to avoid crashes.)

- btop: hangs (known bug awaiting release), no nice/renice/idle hiding

- bottom: basic

- gotop: I forget

- glances: pretty good, supports nice & renice. That or htop seem to be the only options for that. glances is CPU-heavy.

- zenith: also good, faster, and at least shows nice. (Crashes if you sort by it, known bug awaiting fix.)"

I went with zenith.

Lauding with faint blame ? :)

You're speaking of "GHC haskell" there. Yes that is the main stream - and this will get solved there sooner or later - but you can also do a fair amount of Haskell without GHC. Eg MicroHs is getting increasingly capable and I believe is highly bootstrappable.

I always liked https://www.extrema.is/articles/haskell-books/haskell-tutori... . But there's a lot out there. Have a look at https://joyful.com/Haskell+map . Or: read code. Or, just build practical stuff and seek help in the chats/fora when you hit problems.

Yes, it's still a thing.

https://joyful.com/Haskell#What+are+some+Haskell+apps

I had the same question. The demo video does not look like half blocks. More details of the terminal, font, window config used would be illuminating.

Not loading for the last two days, but also available here: https://web.archive.org/web/20250717160838if_/https://www.ha...

When Gnucash did something, I was never sure what actually happened. And sometimes it would crash. Was all my data safe? Hard to tell.

You express it exactly, I felt the same way with Gnucash, Quicken, and all the other non-plain-text accounting apps I tried. Finance was stressful enough without also worrying about messed-up data. That was perhaps the biggest motivation to switch to Ledger, when I found it.

Later, I often could not figure out how to make Ledger do something I knew it could do, and I often was surprised by a crash or wrong behaviour when it saw some new combination of features and data that hadn't been tested or implemented yet. This was a big motivation to write hledger.

They are different - though often tried for the same kinds of use case. Here's https://hledger.org/hledger.html#secondary-dates (hledger's name for effective dates) vs https://hledger.org/hledger.html#posting-dates. (Both features come from Ledger.)

https://plaintextaccounting.org/Investing-and-trading summarises the current options, and https://joyful.com/hledger+lot+tracking has design notes, some of them recent.

You said book, but I wouldn't rule out the docs on hledger.org (and perhaps plaintextaccounting.org); of which https://hledger.org/hledger-by-example.html is book-ish, and https://hledger.org/accounting.html leads to some good general accounting resources.

Also, again not what you asked for exactly, but the hledger chat room can be a very useful extra resource, to keep things moving along.

And here's one I found useful, though with more of a business flavour: "Accounting Savvy for Business Owners: A Guide to the Bare Essentials" by Philip B. Goodman CPA.

Sounds frustrating. Report it for investigation, please.

jj's auto staging isn't always desirable. I feel jj docs and evangelists should make clearer that it's easy to turn off by default, by adding this to ~/.jjconfig:

    [snapshot]
    auto-track = "none()"

That's a very clear up-to-date intro, great work.

Super advice, essential reading for FOSS maintainers.

stack does generally have better UX. cabal hasn't supplanted it (and won't). But each has their strengths, the right tool for the right job.