Actual Budget is a open source privacy-focused budgeting app designed for tracking your finances. I’ve been using it for a while and have picked up a few handy tricks along the way that aren’t covered in the docs.

I also run it with all the experimental settings turned on.

Read the Docs

Don’t read this without reading the official docs first.

Build your categories for cleaning up

Think about how you want to cleanup extra money from variable budgets at the end of the month. Don’t mix budget periods. This allows you to have cleanup rules on monthly budgets and it makes it clearer what kind of progress your making for things that stretch over multiple months.

Mastodon tries to give people nice link previews for any URLs shared in posts. It generally does so by looking for metadata on the linked page in a specific order:

1. JSON-LD
2. OpenGraph (OG)
3. Standard Meta Tags

When a page has data in these formats, Mastodon pulls the information it needs to display a title, description, image, and more.

What is JSON-LD?

JSON-LD is a way to embed structured data in a page using JavaScript Object Notation (JSON). It’s often used for things like Schema.org data or rich snippets. Mastodon scans for it first.

I’ve been using an interesting Android task app for a couple of months now called Simpletask (Source) [not pictured above] and I feel like I’ve used it long enough now to be able to give it a fair review over some of the other stuff I have tried for task management.

I’m still using a lot of other task management apps for things like software development and project planning, but Simpletask and the ecosystem it’s based on have some unique characteristics and advantages that can also potentially fit really well into your workflow.

This small tabletop chest was inspired from a design copied from the class project of Camille Larrey’s Intermediate Woodworking Class at ACC. It was made based off of a diagram of general parts required and the overall dimensions of 18x10x10’'.

In features 24 dovetails for the upper drawers and an additional 12 for the panels. In the rendering the cabinet panels are using the “Wood Cherry Original” material from sketch up while the drawer fronts “birds eye maple” and side panels, “cherry finished” from an article on wood grain textures1 however when it came down to purchasing lumber I only went with two species.

I’ve been neglecting my homepage for a while, and as a dynamic site written in Django, it is harder to manage and I just don’t want to spend the same amount of effort anymore to run a page I don’t frequently update.

To remedy this, I decided to throw everything into static files and build the static files when I do deploys of new content instead of dynamically rendering the pages on each request.