This Week In Hledger 2024-04-12

[Simon Michael]

This Week In Hledger 2024-04-12

https://hledger.org/news.html#this-week-in-hledger-2024-04-12

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Investigated/refactored/discussed a problem with boolean query expressions; disallowed date: in OR expressions #2178.

Required process >=1.6.19.0 for HSEC-2024-0003.

Updated docs: balance assertions, balancesheetequity.

plaintextaccounting.org updates:

FAQ,

Borrowing and lending,

Investing and trading,

Shared expenses,

project ledger.

Misc

• Hacker News: Double-entry bookkeeping as a directed graph
  

You can see recent discussions at:

https://matrix.hledger.org,

https://list.hledger.org,

https://forum.plaintextaccounting.org/latest,

https://www.reddit.com/r/plaintextaccounting/new,

https://fosstodon.org/search -> #hledger.

Feel free to share interesting links (they don't have to be new) at the PTA forum.

Quotes

There are few things better than doing my taxes every year and being able to confirm every number on every form with simple #hledger queries (which lets me double check both my records and the forms themselves). --Michael Rees

I combine hledger csv output with Jupyter to generate the specific reports and charts I need. I.e business specific versus combined for taxes. --abhiyerra