A bit over a year ago Hemispheric Views launched the default apps thread. Inspired by the wave of posts that followed, and by the time of year that somewhat leads us to make lists and assessments, I decided to compile a list of my default apps. ✉️ Mail Client: Proton Mail Proton has been my main mailbox for just over a month. So far I’m satisfied, although the accessory services have several shortcomings. ...
In previous post I introduced you to Ledger by showing you its basic functionality, how movements are tracked, and how to query it to extract useful information. I also mentioned how the potential of this software was much wider. Today it’s time to show you how to use it to track your investments. What is a commodity From an economic/financial point of view, the term commodity indicates a good whose value does not vary according to its source. So the euro can be seen as a commodity because a euro is always worth the same regardless of who we receive it from. The same applies to a gold bar or a barrel of oil. Apples, on the other hand, are not really commodities because their source also influences the quality of the product. In Ledger, commodities are defined in a broader way and can be seen as the unit of measure of transactions. In the first post I told you that within a Ledger journal money movements between accounts are tracked, but actually the concept can be generalized as it is possible to use transactions to move things from one account to another. ...
This post might seem anachronistic to you. In the world of social networking and web apps still with RSS feeds? There’s no denying that RSS feeds have gone out of style, but unlike their more modern counterparts, they are standard, free and open. What is an RSS feed Simplifying as much as possible, an RSS feed is an XML file that, through a standard, computer-understandable format, allows you to track updates to a website. Once you subscribe to a blog’s RSS feed you will be able to receive a notification whenever new content is available on the blog. This way you’ll never miss any posts, so this technology is useful for both those who create content and those who enjoy it. ...
I already explained to you in a previous post how passwords have become a very important aspect of our digital lives. I told you how to build an effective password and how to use Bitwarden to store them without losing our minds. We should have solved the password problem for good, right? Right! Sorry to disappoint you, but there’s still one more step to take: enable two-factor authentication. What is two-factor authentication When we log in to a website we are authenticating ourselves on that site, meaning the site is trying to figure out if we really are who we say we are. In almost all cases, recognition is done through the use of a username and password. As we have seen passwords are insecure and some of our behaviors1 make them even less secure. To try to solve this problem we thought to recognize users not only through the knowledge of a password, but also through an additional factor. ...
If you are used to paying everything by card you will surely have less difficulty in finding the answer to the title question. By now almost all banks allow you to automatically categorize your expenses and have a monthly statement. But do they allow you to customize the process? Can you change the category of an expense? Can you add new categories? Can you have categories and subcategories? If you use multiple banks how do you merge the data that comes from the various apps? The goal of this post is to answer all of these questions through the use of Ledger. ...