DrCr, a double-entry bookkeeping tool

I present DrCr, a self-contained cross-platform open-source double-entry bookkeeping tool, written using Rust and Tauri, with Vue.js on the frontend, and Luau for scriptable plugin support.

DrCr provides an easily navigated GUI which facilitates exploring financial information. Unlike more minimalist ledger-likes, DrCr embraces… »

Moving beyond plaintext accounting – why I wrote my own double-entry bookkeeping tool

Since 2017, I have been using open-source double-entry bookkeeping tools to manage personal finances – initially GnuCash, and from 2019, the plaintext accounting tool ledger. Ledger, and plaintext accounting generally, sported a number of appealing features – the software is lightweight and performant,… »

A dynamic, extensible approach to implementing double-entry bookkeeping

Motivation

Double-entry bookkeeping is the foundation of modern accounting. I have recently been developing DrCr, open-source software for double-entry bookkeeping, which has proved fruitful – a further article about the software will be forthcoming. In simple terms, generating accounting reports from double-entry transaction data… »

A modern theme for cgit

cgit is a lightweight web frontend for git repositories. As opposed to modern git forges such as GitLab, Gitea and Forgejo, cgit provides view-only access, and does not have attached bells and whistles such as issue tracking or pull requests. This allows cgit to be… »

htmlcc: Statically compiled HTML templates for C

This article presents htmlcc, an HTML templating engine for C utilising static compilation.

Motivation

Web applications are not commonly written in C; one notable counterexample is cgit, a web frontend for git repositories. HTML output in cgit is implemented from scratch, using bespoke… »

Foreground segmentation with JBIG2 for improved PDF compression: pdf-segmented

Motivation

JBIG2 is an efficient image compression format for bi-level (bi-tonal) images, which is supported by the PDF file format and common PDF viewers. To date, tooling for producing documents using JBIG2 (particularly open source tooling) has been limited; I have previously presented file-jbig2pdf,… »