Raspberry Pi, hledger, and openSUSE Tumbleweed
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Raspberry Pi Pico W SDK Adds Bluetooth Support
The Pico W launched in June 2022, but it is just getting Bluetooth support now.
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Jonathan Dowland: HLedger, 1 year on
It's been a year since I started exploring HLedger, and I'm still going. The rollover to 2023 was an opportunity to revisit my approach.
Some time ago I stumbled across Dmitry Astapov's HLedger notes (fully-fledged hledger, which I briefly mentioned in eventual consistency) and decided to adopt some of its ideas.
new year, new journal
First up, Astapov encourages starting a new journal file for a new calendar year. I do this for other, accounting-adjacent files as a matter of course, and I did it for my GNUCash files prior to adopting HLedger. But the reason for those is a general suspicion that a simple mistake with those softwares could irrevocably corrupt my data. I'm much more confident with HLedger, so rolling over at years end isn't necessary for that. But there are other advantages. A quick obvious one is you can get rid of old accounts (such as expense accounts tied to a particular project, now completed).
one journal per import
In the first year, I periodically imported account data via CSV exports of transactions and HLedger's (excellent) CSV import system. I imported all the transactions, once each, into a single, large journal file.
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openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2023/06
Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,
7 days – 7 snapshots. No surprise there, is it? Tumbleweed keeps on delivering snapshots in predictable ways. Nevertheless, there was a small surprise to me this week: a new glibc version (2.37) was submitted. I already feared that this would be blocking staging for weeks to come. But wrong I was! Just 54 hours after the SR was created, the update found its way into openSUSE:Factory – and 24 hours later it’s available to the users to install after passing openQA. Of course, that’s not the only thing that happened though, it’s just the most recent thing that stunned me.