[-] deeroh 7 points 8 months ago

Nice! I've been hoping for something like this for a while now. 10GB of storage is pretty abysmal if you have any kind of media in your vault, e.g. I have a bunch of old scanned PDF's that don't compress well taking up a few GB.

Also cool to see that they're bumping existing subscribers up to 50GB! Won't need to move up to the next tier at this rate.

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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by deeroh to c/ynab@lemmy.world

End of an era. I'm sure many people here started their personal finance tracking with Mint. I certainly did, and I was using it all the way up until switching to YNAB early this year.

The CEO of a competitor, Monarch Money, posted a great article about the shutdown (different from the OP link). The article ends in a plug for Monarch, but he makes a great point about subscription-based services. I'll copy-paste a snippet here.

[...] After 25 years in the technology industry, I’ve seen firsthand how a company eventually becomes its business model. Google is no longer a search company, but an advertising company. Facebook is no longer a social network, but an advertising company. Similarly, Mint and Credit Karma are no longer personal finance companies, but advertising companies.

If you’re an existing Mint user and wondering how you should best manage your finances going forward, I would strongly encourage you to consider a subscription-based personal finance app instead of a free one.

A subscription-based app:

  • Aligns company interests with your interests. It’s hard to overstate the importance of this. When you are paying for the service, you are the customer. You call the shots, and the company builds what you want and need. If it doesn’t, you cancel your subscription. This aligns incentives and ultimately leads to a much better user experience. The opposite is true in a free service, where ultimately the advertiser is the customer as they are the ones paying the bills. [...]

(As well as a few other bullets that follow). Worth the read too.

[-] deeroh 32 points 10 months ago

If you have to write Objective-C for some unfortunate reason - http://fuckingblocksyntax.com/

If you have to write Objective-C for some unfortunate reason and your IT infrastructure doesn't like fun - http://goshdarnblocksyntax.com/

[-] deeroh 12 points 10 months ago

I'm impressed, and I love how this project is pushing the boundaries for keyboard layouts, but damn if this doesn't make me uncomfortable

[-] deeroh 3 points 10 months ago

Nice! Yeah I've been doing this for about a year, and I've been really happy with it. Minimal overhead, but I don't lose any information (and I don't have a mess of hidden categories at the end).

[-] deeroh 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

My take:

  • I don't want to have my normal spending statistics messed up by vacation spending (food, going out, etc).
  • I do like to see how much I've spent on travel overall.
  • When I'm out, I don't want to think about categorizing expenses (especially if I'm somewhere where I'm using mostly cash). Vacation is for vacation, not for stressing out about categories.

That's how I feel anyway, so how I do it is:

  • I have a category group for Travel.
  • When I have a new trip coming up, I create a new category for it and fund that.
  • During the trip itself, I charge everything to that category.
  • Once I get back and transactions have settled, I add something to the memo of the transactions (e.g. #2023-10-my-trip), then I delete the category and move all those transactions to a generic Travel category.

This way, I can still differentiate between trips if I want to go back and look, but I also get to see an overall view of my travel spending (without cluttering my everyday categories).

Pretty painless, works well for me.

[-] deeroh 4 points 10 months ago

I'd guess that most people with public social media accounts would be susceptible to something like this. As long as there are videos available with the person speaking, which are plentiful by way of instagram reels / tiktoks, the rest of what the commenter described above sounds totally feasible.

[-] deeroh 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I'm sure individual interviewers have their own styles, but yeah I'm with you here. Few things are more frustrating for me during an interview than wasting 30 minutes going in circles on something because the candidate isn't being honest with me.

Our role (low level software) is going to be full of things they haven't seen before. I would rather have a candidate who can quickly identify that they don't understand something, and likewise quickly try to fill that gap so they can move on to the next thing, than have someone try to bluff their way through.

I understand that there's a level of "fake it til you make it" during interviews, but the goal of the interviewer is to get as much signal on you as a candidate as possible. Admitting you don't know something may not feel good, but then it gives the interviewer the opportunity to test you on different things that could really highlight your skills. For example, we ask questions on multithreading during our panel. If you don't know how a semaphore works, and you tell me that upfront, that gives me the opportunity to explain the concept to you and see what your process is like working through new information.

[-] deeroh 4 points 11 months ago

Nice! He puts out some great designs, and his prefabbed stuff is top knotch.

[-] deeroh 8 points 11 months ago

Cool! I think GM had (has?) something similar, which is great.

I'm personally holding off until I can get a V2H charger, but if I didn't have charging at work as an option, I'd jump on this.

[-] deeroh 6 points 11 months ago

Similarly, I've been trying to purchase less on Amazon, but the brick and mortar stores around me are also giants (namely Walmart). I haven't been doing a good job of it, but I feel like part of the process of getting away from Amazon is also accepting some inconvenience and seeking things out from local shops.

Things though like detergent, toilet paper, etc, I really don't know who sells them other than big box stores.

[-] deeroh 5 points 11 months ago

oh boy... yeah WoW was around 3 hours a day x 5 days a week for about 4 years. Some days were more, some days were less, and I took a few breaks here and there. That comes out to around 100 days.

[-] deeroh 11 points 11 months ago

oof. Given how desensitized we've become with the constant inundation of garbage he spews, I forgot how bad this quote was.

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