tomfunk

still working on my local-first, byok personal finance tool. feels like a lot of sanding at this point.

i've been working on a personal finance app. it started out strictly tui (using ink) but i recently added a gui using electron. i still like the tui but i know it's not for everyone.

it's all free, open source, and local-first. you can get a hobbyist tier plaid account and sync your accounts, or use csvs. rules-based categorization, spending trends, FIRE/savings-rate health view, etc.

there's also an mcp server so you can hook it up to claude/cursor and just chat about your finances. and a "canvas" feature where you describe a financial question and an agent builds you a custom calculator for it (e.g. amortization, compounding, what-ifs).

honestly it has all the features i want so i'm not sure what's next. i have a few contributors, always welcoming more.

https://github.com/tomfunk/fungible

Update: put up a proper landing page at https://thisisfungible.com/ if you want a quick overview before diving into the repo.

done and done. thanks

its partial read access. transactions, balances, etc. it can't buy stuff.

added

it uses ink so it should play nice

i turned off copilot when i did a trial of an alternative and when the trial ran out i just stopped using either. i still use chatgpt over stackoverflow but i don't miss the proactive prompts.

what financial instruments?

I think of critique in two ways: 1) Did the author, filmmaker, etc. effectively achieve what they were trying to do? and 2) Did I like it?

So, in the first sense, I don't think it is "bad" because I believe this is exactly what the author was setting out to do in writing it. In the second sense, yes, it is a bad book in that I don't like it.

my coworker begged me to read gravity's rainbow with him so i did. it was a slog. there are so many nuggets of interesting ideas and brilliant prose but the utter hostility to the reader made it possibly one of my least favorite reads in recent memory. i don't recommend it to anyone.

iirc that's one of Michael Shellenberger's points in Apocalypse Never.

i feel like he has a specific agenda so it's hard to take everything he says at face value but that point seems reasonable.

The year the fund started (e.g. a 2022 vintage fund is a fund that started in 2022) https://www.investopedia.com/terms/v/vintage_year.asp