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One of the most common forms of personal financial data is a paper receipt. In the past, I’ve tracked these by hand. That process is time intensive and annoying. I’ve always wanted a way to capture a paper receipt at the time I receive it and automatically ingest it into my personal ledger. Now, after some iteration, I’ve landed on an approach that involves 3 clicks on an iPhone and about $0.01 per use on AWS. Here’s how it works. ...

Picture this: someone tells you “You should have a website where you can post about your projects.” Some great advice right there. Two overengineered attempts later and I’m finally hitting the mark. Here’s the thing I understand now that I didn’t when I started. You can have a custom pretty site that looks and works exactly how you want it, but it will cost you much more time, sanity, and energy than is worthwhile. The core requirements of a site to demonstrate your work are: ...