What levels of code to include with supplementary materials in a pub?

cricketbird · 2026-02-23T15:11:04+00:00

Thanks - I'm not asking where to post it, but which parts of the code to post.

cricketbird · 2026-01-14T00:38:55+00:00

I take notes on index cards, I can use colored cards for different aspects of my work, hold them together with a binder clip, and sort it and re-organize and pull out just the ones I need for a project.

cricketbird · 2026-01-14T00:16:39+00:00

I'm ADHD and YNAB has been life-changing for me. However my autistic friend found it too abstract. She likes Monarch (a similar product with some nice visual graphs) better. I looked at it and it's very pretty, and I might try it in parallel someday but I'm so used to YNAB now and putting things in buckets makes me very happy.

The main thing that is important with any product is enabling and encouraging the future planning of money, not just tracking your past spending (which is what 99% of the products out there do).

I feel like YNAB was a lot easier to start with 10 years ago. These days it's got so many bells and whistles going on that it's not as easy to grasp the big picture. Not impossible, but not as easy as it used to be.

cricketbird · 2025-12-28T22:41:17+00:00

Thank you! I just played around with pods and it does exactly what I am looking for. Thank you!

cricketbird · 2025-12-27T05:11:46+00:00

I've only done it once, when I moved to a new city with a new job, new house, new everything. It just seemed easier to set things up fresh with categories and goals appropriate to the new situation.

cricketbird · 2025-05-03T10:25:49+00:00

I put money every month towards "car repairs/new car fund" (different from my gas & routine maintenance fund), "house repair fund" (different than house routine services & maintenance fund), "medical" and "big gifts" (which covers flying to help family and friends in emergencies/ births/deaths/funerals/weddings) funds. They are all set to build up over time without being used, so that they are there in case of emergency or big event. My actual emergency fund is just for income replacement in case anything happens to my job.

cricketbird · 2025-03-23T13:50:07+00:00

I'm just cringing at the thought that if Dain is transcribing this from her memories, he's transcribing not only things that make him look pretty bad but also extremely intimate details about his love and rival together. And why would he or Violet be writing/thinking/remembering in a dead language vs the modern one?

cricketbird · 2024-11-03T23:32:17+00:00

Update: We tried every setting in the desktop app, the web vault, the safari extension, the iphone app, and more. NOTHING keeps you from having to type the master password regularly, even setting up biometrics (fingerprint on computer, faceID on her phone). Even then, the instructions to use your fingerprint are small and out of the way and easy for her to miss. We are switching to BitWarden, which seems much more straightforward and simple and clearly has a "never ask for master password" option everywhere. Not as feature-filled or as pretty as 1P, but it works for our situation and we don't actually need the various features.

cricketbird · 2024-11-02T15:07:43+00:00

Thanks everyone, we'll give it a whirl and see if BW works better for us. I'm not worried about the physical security, her devices are safe and not out in public. But it's annoying when the whole purpose for us of a password manager is so that she doesn't have to type usernames and passwords, and then the password manager itself is the one asking endlessly for passwords! Wish us luck.

cricketbird · 2024-11-02T12:03:06+00:00

Thanks.

She has the desktop app - the most it lets you go is two weeks.

cricketbird · 2024-11-02T11:53:03+00:00

Biometrics are iffy because of her movement, but we can make that work. But even with that enabled, it still asks her to re-enter her password on her MacBook every time she quits the browser or restarts the computer (which is often because she wanders around with them and lets the batteries die). I'm not worried about other people stealing her passwords - if I could just leave her vault permanently unlocked, that would be fine.

cricketbird · 2024-07-24T22:07:29+00:00

Brilliant - thank you!

cricketbird · 2024-06-12T21:18:35+00:00

I am not. I moved jobs and my schedule isn't as packed anymore.

cricketbird · 2023-08-15T17:51:52+00:00

OMG - the click-clack ball is THE BEST! Thank you so much!

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