#banktivity — Public Fediverse posts

I'm about to give up on the #Banktivity to #GnuCash migration. It's a complex transition and all the A.I. tools have failed. They get close, but still screw up transactions. I don't know if I could ever trust the migration. But I have enough data in GC now to look at its fugly reports. It really is a dated UI. Banktivity is much more of a Mac app. GC's use of decimal arithmetic is much superior to Banktivity's inexact floating point though. What WERE they thinking?

I'm about to give up on the #Banktivity to #GnuCash migration. It's a complex transition and all the A.I. tools have failed. They get close, but still screw up transactions. I don't know if I could ever trust the migration. But I have enough data in GC now to look at its fugly reports. It really is a dated UI. Banktivity is much more of a Mac app. GC's use of decimal arithmetic is much superior to Banktivity's inexact floating point though. What WERE they thinking?

I'm about to give up on the #Banktivity to #GnuCash migration. It's a complex transition and all the A.I. tools have failed. They get close, but still screw up transactions. I don't know if I could ever trust the migration. But I have enough data in GC now to look at its fugly reports. It really is a dated UI. Banktivity is much more of a Mac app. GC's use of decimal arithmetic is much superior to Banktivity's inexact floating point though. What WERE they thinking?

#ChatGPT: "I sure hope you enjoy my totally rewritten code where I mismatch arguments between functions, forget whole functions, and don't protect against null variables. Here are the 69 patches you should make. Say, have you considered upgrading to a paid plan so instead of just losing your sanity, you lose money too?"

I am getting so close to giving up on A.I. and trying to figure out the solution myself. Migrating from #Banktivity to #GnuCash is a … challenge.

#ChatGPT: "I sure hope you enjoy my totally rewritten code where I mismatch arguments between functions, forget whole functions, and don't protect against null variables. Here are the 69 patches you should make. Say, have you considered upgrading to a paid plan so instead of just losing your sanity, you lose money too?"

I am getting so close to giving up on A.I. and trying to figure out the solution myself. Migrating from #Banktivity to #GnuCash is a … challenge.

#ChatGPT: "I sure hope you enjoy my totally rewritten code where I mismatch arguments between functions, forget whole functions, and don't protect against null variables. Here are the 69 patches you should make. Say, have you considered upgrading to a paid plan so instead of just losing your sanity, you lose money too?"

I am getting so close to giving up on A.I. and trying to figure out the solution myself. Migrating from #Banktivity to #GnuCash is a … challenge.

#ChatGPT: "I sure hope you enjoy my totally rewritten code where I mismatch arguments between functions, forget whole functions, and don't protect against null variables. Here are the 69 patches you should make. Say, have you considered upgrading to a paid plan so instead of just losing your sanity, you lose money too?"

I am getting so close to giving up on A.I. and trying to figure out the solution myself. Migrating from #Banktivity to #GnuCash is a … challenge.

#ChatGPT: "I sure hope you enjoy my totally rewritten code where I mismatch arguments between functions, forget whole functions, and don't protect against null variables. Here are the 69 patches you should make. Say, have you considered upgrading to a paid plan so instead of just losing your sanity, you lose money too?"

I am getting so close to giving up on A.I. and trying to figure out the solution myself. Migrating from #Banktivity to #GnuCash is a … challenge.

I find it amusing that many tech people use #Claude for programming. To get my #Banktivity to #GnuCash conversion done I've been trying it, #Gemini and even #Copilot, but all have failed. Claude generated beautiful object-oriented code that took minutes to run. Gemini created mostly function code that was 75% of the size but runs in a few seconds. I'm using that as my base and trying to debug the rest myself since Gemini can't finish the project.

I find it amusing that many tech people use #Claude for programming. To get my #Banktivity to #GnuCash conversion done I've been trying it, #Gemini and even #Copilot, but all have failed. Claude generated beautiful object-oriented code that took minutes to run. Gemini created mostly function code that was 75% of the size but runs in a few seconds. I'm using that as my base and trying to debug the rest myself since Gemini can't finish the project.

I find it amusing that many tech people use #Claude for programming. To get my #Banktivity to #GnuCash conversion done I've been trying it, #Gemini and even #Copilot, but all have failed. Claude generated beautiful object-oriented code that took minutes to run. Gemini created mostly function code that was 75% of the size but runs in a few seconds. I'm using that as my base and trying to debug the rest myself since Gemini can't finish the project.

I asked Claude to convert #Banktivity to #GnuCash by exporting directly from SQLite database to database. It thought a long time and produced a script that came pretty darn close with some glaring weirdness. Transaction dates in the GnuCash database look fine, but they're displayed months different. Also, the GC database is much smaller so I'm wondering what's missing. This at least looks promising.

I asked Claude to convert #Banktivity to #GnuCash by exporting directly from SQLite database to database. It thought a long time and produced a script that came pretty darn close with some glaring weirdness. Transaction dates in the GnuCash database look fine, but they're displayed months different. Also, the GC database is much smaller so I'm wondering what's missing. This at least looks promising.

I asked Claude to convert #Banktivity to #GnuCash by exporting directly from SQLite database to database. It thought a long time and produced a script that came pretty darn close with some glaring weirdness. Transaction dates in the GnuCash database look fine, but they're displayed months different. Also, the GC database is much smaller so I'm wondering what's missing. This at least looks promising.

I’m trying to move away from #Banktivity. #GnuCash was a disaster. I heard about #Beancount but I was skeptical; how could a flat text file have any performance? But I was willing to concede they knew something I didn’t. I fought like hell to import my QIF export and although there were problems, enough worked for me to try it out. It is stunningly … slooow … as expected. It takes 8(!) seconds on an M4 Mac mini to open a single transaction! I deleted the whole awful mess. Still searching.

I’m trying to move away from #Banktivity. #GnuCash was a disaster. I heard about #Beancount but I was skeptical; how could a flat text file have any performance? But I was willing to concede they knew something I didn’t. I fought like hell to import my QIF export and although there were problems, enough worked for me to try it out. It is stunningly … slooow … as expected. It takes 8(!) seconds on an M4 Mac mini to open a single transaction! I deleted the whole awful mess. Still searching.

I’m trying to move away from #Banktivity. #GnuCash was a disaster. I heard about #Beancount but I was skeptical; how could a flat text file have any performance? But I was willing to concede they knew something I didn’t. I fought like hell to import my QIF export and although there were problems, enough worked for me to try it out. It is stunningly … slooow … as expected. It takes 8(!) seconds on an M4 Mac mini to open a single transaction! I deleted the whole awful mess. Still searching.

I'm trying to import a QIF file exported from #Banktivity into #GnuCash and it does import, but the account balances are wildly wrong. One nasty bug in GC's importer is that if a split transaction has two items and one of them doesn't have a category, GC uses the category from one item and the amount from the other as a single non-split entry. It just throws away the categorized amount. I 💩 you not!

HTF does this get by testing? What other horrors await as I try to resolve this mess?

I'm trying to import a QIF file exported from #Banktivity into #GnuCash and it does import, but the account balances are wildly wrong. One nasty bug in GC's importer is that if a split transaction has two items and one of them doesn't have a category, GC uses the category from one item and the amount from the other as a single non-split entry. It just throws away the categorized amount. I 💩 you not!

HTF does this get by testing? What other horrors await as I try to resolve this mess?

I'm trying to import a QIF file exported from #Banktivity into #GnuCash and it does import, but the account balances are wildly wrong. One nasty bug in GC's importer is that if a split transaction has two items and one of them doesn't have a category, GC uses the category from one item and the amount from the other as a single non-split entry. It just throws away the categorized amount. I 💩 you not!

HTF does this get by testing? What other horrors await as I try to resolve this mess?

#apple #macapps
> #timing for time tracking
> #sip for color picking
> #drafts for all quick text
> #scrivener for long form text
> #alfred for launch bar
> #tripmode for bandwidth monitoring
> #hazel for automated file.. filing
> #devonthink for all documents
> #bartender for menubar cleanup
> #cleanshotx for screenshots
> #applemotion for motion graphics
> #keynote for animation
> #banktivity for finance
> #kyno for digital asset management
> #spark - mail
> #istatmenus - system monitoring

#apple #macapps
> #timing for time tracking
> #sip for color picking
> #drafts for all quick text
> #scrivener for long form text
> #alfred for launch bar
> #tripmode for bandwidth monitoring
> #hazel for automated file.. filing
> #devonthink for all documents
> #bartender for menubar cleanup
> #cleanshotx for screenshots
> #applemotion for motion graphics
> #keynote for animation
> #banktivity for finance
> #kyno for digital asset management
> #spark - mail
> #istatmenus - system monitoring

#apple #macapps
> #timing for time tracking
> #sip for color picking
> #drafts for all quick text
> #scrivener for long form text
> #alfred for launch bar
> #tripmode for bandwidth monitoring
> #hazel for automated file.. filing
> #devonthink for all documents
> #bartender for menubar cleanup
> #cleanshotx for screenshots
> #applemotion for motion graphics
> #keynote for animation
> #banktivity for finance
> #kyno for digital asset management
> #spark - mail
> #istatmenus - system monitoring

#apple #macapps
> #timing for time tracking
> #sip for color picking
> #drafts for all quick text
> #scrivener for long form text
> #alfred for launch bar
> #tripmode for bandwidth monitoring
> #hazel for automated file.. filing
> #devonthink for all documents
> #bartender for menubar cleanup
> #cleanshotx for screenshots
> #applemotion for motion graphics
> #keynote for animation
> #banktivity for finance
> #kyno for digital asset management
> #spark - mail
> #istatmenus - system monitoring

@andricheli @agngw
> #timing for time tracking
> #sip for color picking
> #drafts for all quick text
> #scrivener for long for text
> #alfred for launch bar
> #tripmode for bandwidth monitoring
> #hazel for automated file.. filing
> #devonthink for all documents
> #hedge for disk copies
> #bartender for menubar cleanup
> #cleanshotx for screenshots
> #applemotion for motion graphics
> #keynote for animation
> #banktivity for finance
> #kyno for digital asset management

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@andricheli @agngw
> #timing for time tracking
> #sip for color picking
> #drafts for all quick text
> #scrivener for long for text
> #alfred for launch bar
> #tripmode for bandwidth monitoring
> #hazel for automated file.. filing
> #devonthink for all documents
> #hedge for disk copies
> #bartender for menubar cleanup
> #cleanshotx for screenshots
> #applemotion for motion graphics
> #keynote for animation
> #banktivity for finance
> #kyno for digital asset management

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@andricheli @agngw
> #timing for time tracking
> #sip for color picking
> #drafts for all quick text
> #scrivener for long for text
> #alfred for launch bar
> #tripmode for bandwidth monitoring
> #hazel for automated file.. filing
> #devonthink for all documents
> #hedge for disk copies
> #bartender for menubar cleanup
> #cleanshotx for screenshots
> #applemotion for motion graphics
> #keynote for animation
> #banktivity for finance
> #kyno for digital asset management

Out of space.

@andricheli @agngw
> #timing for time tracking
> #sip for color picking
> #drafts for all quick text
> #scrivener for long for text
> #alfred for launch bar
> #tripmode for bandwidth monitoring
> #hazel for automated file.. filing
> #devonthink for all documents
> #hedge for disk copies
> #bartender for menubar cleanup
> #cleanshotx for screenshots
> #applemotion for motion graphics
> #keynote for animation
> #banktivity for finance
> #kyno for digital asset management

Out of space.