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Embedding Observable notebooks into a blog

Paul Carleton

Jul 2, 2020 • 1 min read

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BeanCat

A black cat accountantIn about the 17th iteration of me working on a personal finance app, I'm setting up a plaid integration. The tooling setup roughly looks like: Beancount as the resulting data formatFava as the viewbeancount-import to help automatically categorizingPlaid to download transaction data (they support OpenBanking now!)Beancount

Paul Carleton Nov 12, 2022 • 1 min read

Rust: What to pick for the Error type when writing your own Result type

The Result type in rust is great! Combined with the ? operator, it makes error handling much more concise than other languages. Consider ? vs: Go: if err != nil { return nil, err }Java: try { ... } catch { ... } & throwsWhen defining my own Result<T, E> type, leaving the T generic is really

Paul Carleton Apr 28, 2021 • 4 min read

Observable + bean-count

Two of my favorite tools lately are Observable (observablehq.com) (a long time favorite for quickly prototyping javascript and creating interactive visualizations) and bean-count (a more recent addition for doing "hobbyist double entry accounting" (a special form of "fun")). fava is a great open source web UI for bean-count that

Paul Carleton Apr 20, 2021 • 3 min read

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