{"id":1125,"date":"2023-03-22T20:38:10","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T03:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.ca\/?p=1125"},"modified":"2023-03-22T20:38:10","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T03:38:10","slug":"nerd-reversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2023\/03\/22\/nerd-reversion\/","title":{"rendered":"Nerd Reversion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/countabout.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/countabout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/CountAbout_Logo-1536x349.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" height=\"87\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I had been using Quicken for bookkeeping since 2000.  As I moved away from Windows and retired those devices, it became more difficult and inconvenient to continue using Quicken.  I searched for cloud-based alternatives and finally found CountAbout last year.  The basic plan costs only $9.99 US per year and it does everything I need.  I highly recommend this service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the past year of using CountAbout I had occasionally thought about developing an equivalent application myself, not to save money but as a fun project.  Two weeks ago, with nothing else to do, I finally started prototyping and today my replacement application does everything that I had imagined.  I learned OO PHP and Javascript, and used extreme programming techniques to create the prototype.  My application is not pretty but the UI is efficient and I improved on some of the CountAbout workflow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the project I reverted to the obsessive software engineer that I used to be.  I resented interruptions and was constantly thinking of the various technical problems that I was facing.  While that&#8217;s how I got things done, it didn&#8217;t make me a better person.  I like myself better as a gardener.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We arrived in Garden Bay on March 21.  Today, March 22, was sunny and I spent the afternoon outside cleaning fallen branches and inspecting my messy garden.  Next priority will be rose bush pruning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had been using Quicken for bookkeeping since 2000. As I moved away from Windows and retired those devices, it became more difficult and inconvenient to continue using Quicken. I searched for cloud-based alternatives and finally found CountAbout last year. The basic plan costs only $9.99 US per year and it does everything I need. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2023\/03\/22\/nerd-reversion\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Nerd Reversion&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}