Thank you Fava
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Martin Blais
Jan 14, 2017, 1:16:06 PM1/14/17
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I open my email this Saturday morning and there's something like 30 threads of Beancount-related emails from Fava users and developers from the github repo. I'm finding it incredible how much activity is going on with Fava, I can barely keep up reading all of it. Forgive me if I don't participate in every thread.
It's also fantastic to see people discuss and build some of the things I've wanted but never had time to, and take this to the next level, and it's motivating me to continue investing time in it and tidying things up.
In 2017, I'm going to switch to semantic versioning to make your lives easier, hopefully sooner than later.
Anyhow, thank you! :-)
redst...@gmail.com
Jan 15, 2017, 1:59:20 AM1/15/17
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Right from its beginning, Fava has kept up this incredible pace of growing and getting better by leaps and bounds *all the time*, which I find amazing for any software endeavor at all. Huge thank you, Fava contributors! Fava is fantastic!
And let's not forget what I'm guessing inspired Fava: Beancount! Thanks Martin, for the solid foundation, and among other things, the great underlying design that is friendly towards extensibility and customization!
Dominik Aumayr
Jan 15, 2017, 4:06:12 AM1/15/17
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A little backstory:
In fall 2015 I was in a hospital bed, getting chemotherapy. I was reading HN on my phone, and came across a post about ledger-cli. I have never heard of plain text accounting before, but was always interrested in these topics. I did not really "get" how ledger worked that day, but a week later, again being bored in hospital, I started googeling again. As a Python-person I quickly came across Beancount, and this was the revelation for me: The documentation was awesome, the code readable and lots of examples in the tests. And when I opened bean-web for the first time, everything clicked: It all made sense, and it was all I wanted for my personal accounting. After playing with it for a while, and adding fake-transactions for a week (not much real business in hospital), I started to like it so much that I wanted to add my own ideas, make the styling more modern, etc. and thus - after consulting this very mailinglist for hints how to proceed - Fava ("beancount-web" back then) was born.
In the following months my condition got worse, and I was not really able to keep up with all the feature requests and changes, so I asked Jakob to join as a project maintainer. Thankfully he accepted and has done an incredible job ever since. He has taught me a lot about how to write good code and make good decisions on features, architecture, etc.
Late last August I spent my last day in hospital, and am fine now. During all this time Beancount and Fava have been one of the reasons to wake up every morning, checking my phone and seeing all the people contributing ideas, discussions, bug reports, code and examples. I'm deeply grateful for these projects and everyone involved. It really helped back then, and nothing changed: First thing in the morning I do is check all the activity, and trying to add, respond and answer.
Thank you, Martin, Jakob, and everyone involved!
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In fall 2015 I was in a hospital bed, getting chemotherapy. I was reading HN on my phone, and came across a post about ledger-cli. I have never heard of plain text accounting before, but was always interrested in these topics. I did not really "get" how ledger worked that day, but a week later, again being bored in hospital, I started googeling again. As a Python-person I quickly came across Beancount, and this was the revelation for me: The documentation was awesome, the code readable and lots of examples in the tests. And when I opened bean-web for the first time, everything clicked: It all made sense, and it was all I wanted for my personal accounting. After playing with it for a while, and adding fake-transactions for a week (not much real business in hospital), I started to like it so much that I wanted to add my own ideas, make the styling more modern, etc. and thus - after consulting this very mailinglist for hints how to proceed - Fava ("beancount-web" back then) was born.
In the following months my condition got worse, and I was not really able to keep up with all the feature requests and changes, so I asked Jakob to join as a project maintainer. Thankfully he accepted and has done an incredible job ever since. He has taught me a lot about how to write good code and make good decisions on features, architecture, etc.
Late last August I spent my last day in hospital, and am fine now. During all this time Beancount and Fava have been one of the reasons to wake up every morning, checking my phone and seeing all the people contributing ideas, discussions, bug reports, code and examples. I'm deeply grateful for these projects and everyone involved. It really helped back then, and nothing changed: First thing in the morning I do is check all the activity, and trying to add, respond and answer.
Thank you, Martin, Jakob, and everyone involved!
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Red S
Jan 22, 2017, 2:36:44 PM1/22/17
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Wow, that is an incredible story! I had no clue. So glad you're fine now :). If you ever visit the US, I owe you a beer or ten.
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