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shibel commented on Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)    · Posted by u/david927
shibel · 8 months ago
A custom Python/Django based mini-app (mini — at least for now) that will allow me to import transactions sanely and safely to my local GnuCash install.

I’ve been doing tedious manual entry for a bit over two years now and after having missed three consecutive months, the only other option was to bail.

As a start it should help with 3 main things:

- Translation, categorization: my source documents aren’t in English but my GnuCash entries are. This is one of the reasons I don’t use the built-in imports. (This should shave off at least 90% of time spent entering data)

- Human-error prevention: there were at least 5 times where it took me over 15 minutes to reconcile a discrepancy because I entered some number or some account wrong somewhere.

shibel commented on Ask HN: How do you handle VAT / Sales Tax accounting as B2C SaaS?    · Posted by u/throw_1VJ51pMb
shibel · 10 months ago
I happen to use Paddle. Happen because Stripe isn’t available in my country and Lemon Squeezy wasn’t around / was very new back then. It’s OK but it really irks me that they don’t really fight chargebacks. (I haven’t had many but the fee they throw on you automatically is so hefty for a B2C.)

Their V1 API (not Paddle “Billing”) is…not the best I’ve used.

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shibel commented on What UI density means and how to design for it   matthewstrom.com/writing/... · Posted by u/delaugust
shibel · 2 years ago
Off topic: I’m halfway through the article and can’t help but notice the relatively high number of times a word is erroneously repeated twice; wondering if it was “edited” by AI.
shibel commented on Show HN: CPU Prices on eBay   cpuscout.com/... · Posted by u/attilakun
gitinit · 2 years ago
Using Selenium, even headlessly, Amazon prices can easily be scraped. This could be turned into an API without much difficulty, I imagine.
shibel · 2 years ago
Yeah, my first lines of Python (or code) were Selenium/BeautifulSoup. The problems with these are sensitivity for (DOM) changes, speed, and scale (not that I'm too concerned with those at the moment, it's just a fun refreshing project).
shibel commented on Show HN: CPU Prices on eBay   cpuscout.com/... · Posted by u/attilakun
attilakun · 2 years ago
The Amazon PAAPI is "interesting" because to even access it, you need to have 3 qualified sales. But... I wanted to use the API to create a website where I'd post the affiliate links on. It's a chicken-and-egg problem. That's why I went with eBay.
shibel · 2 years ago
Yep, I don't have much experience with affiliate programs (I like to build more SaaS-like apps[1]) but from my research Amazon have gotten really stingy circa 2019. Happy to see an alternative.

[1] I didn't know about the 3-sales precondition either. I guess some people bought albums on Amazon on my other music-related app.

shibel commented on Show HN: CPU Prices on eBay   cpuscout.com/... · Posted by u/attilakun
shibel · 2 years ago
Yeah, I also wondered how quick would it be to ~~rip off~~ replicate “diskprices.com for X” and took a weekend (ok more) to build https://tvpricesindex.com (Also using HTMX).

TVs are much less of a “commodity” of course, but it’s a nice experiment that I’ll iterate on a bit more with time. Also, first deploy on Railway (was nice enough, definitely compared to Heroku, but they have a way to go), and using other libraries I wanted to learn.

Will probably start grouping models better soon, and offer other filters.

BTW: If you plan to do something like this with PAAPI (Product Advertising API), know that Amazon has the constant axe of banning you if you don’t generate “qualified” sales for 30 days straight.

shibel commented on Top suspect in 2015 Ashley Madison hack committed suicide in 2014   krebsonsecurity.com/2023/... · Posted by u/feross
shibel · 2 years ago
What’s the point of having [Spoiler Alert] in the opening paragraph if the spoiler is already in the title?
shibel commented on GitHub incident: ongoing issues with Actions, Issues and other Git operations   githubstatus.com/incident... · Posted by u/jaitsu
maccard · 3 years ago
Where'd you get this from?
shibel · 3 years ago
1) A friend in DevOps who supposedly has contacts there.

2) It's not like this push is a big secret: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/12/microsoft-github-relying-mor...

shibel commented on GitHub incident: ongoing issues with Actions, Issues and other Git operations   githubstatus.com/incident... · Posted by u/jaitsu
shibel · 3 years ago
Rumor has it Microsoft is pushing them to move their infrastructure to Azure, which explains much of the frequent downtimes lately.

u/shibel

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