Setting up my finances…the cool way 😎

I’ve embarked on a journey to manage my finances better, 6 months late is still fine huh? I had started something in Python but eventually left that one to collect dust in favor of learning Actual Finance. It’s a docker container that will spin up an app for you to create accounts, categorize finances and help you budget. It strictly follows YNAB(You need a budget) principles but you can configure it to just track expenses, I’m good with that since all I want to do is be mindful of my expenses and making choices to bring down a specific category like restaurants(it’s always food with me)

I’m still around!

Hey everyone! It’s been a long time since I posted and the blog has been a little lonely. We gotta fix that with different posts. I will start with a couple of life updates. I finally hung my spurs of being a sysadmin for natural gas plants and became a Senior Security Operations engineer at Western Midstream! My main goal is heading up the Identity Access Management efforts.

The Expense Trackers Conclusion

Several months ago, I had expressed wanting to get a handle on my expenses cause I have no real budgeting techniques. After downloading all my statememts, I embarked on a journey to make my own expense tracker in Python. I had a pretty good start with a good concept and the database was fast with DuckDB.

Of course, life happens and I got more focused on the pick a gun and some recent career shifts, the expense tracker was not getting any love. However, my problem still persists. I was watching some video with Linus Torvalds and the speaker opened that he had made Linux in the 90s and git was created in 2005. He was asked that it’s been too long since he made something impactful, so when is he gonna release the next big thing? His answer was a hopeful one for developers at large. He had created his projects because he had problems and no solutions existed for it so he solved it himself. Linus, like other people who are lazy, hopes for other people to solve his problems and he hasn’t felt a need to create something.

Setting Up Logging Middleware for Re4-pick-a-gun

We are at a pretty good spot with setting up a REST API for the pick-a-gun server. I have some routes and I’m able to get new JSON’s. The overall plan is to throw this inside a docker container but I need one important thing. Logs, the make or break situation to determine if our application is actually doing something or giving us important error messages along the way. I want to use Kibana for monitoring these logs so we’ll form our JSON to make it Kibana friendly. Technically, kibana will receieve any JSON for standard output but we have a nice little tool for making that easier.

Windows, let me go!

When I installed Manjaro on my desktop, I got a new ssd and hard drive so I wouldn’t have to risk wiping the original windows SSD I’ve had for 8 years. I thought I’d install Manjaro and once I’m up and running, I’ll read in the data now that I have larger drives. Well, I faced a simple reminder that Windows isn’t gonna let me leave without a fight and will attempt to hold my data hostage. Drama aside, we can’t have that.