CLI on Creativity Hacker

I Caught Me An Assistant!

jeff@smithicus.com (Jefferson Smith) — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Don’t tell anybody, but I’ve finally lured a junior programmer down into my basement. He came for the promise of a few bucks and a little fun, and while he was poking around in my source code cellar, I quietly threw the deadbolt and locked him in.

He’s been there for a week and still hasn’t noticed. And you wanna know the best part?

We’re actually getting shit done.

Plim

jeff@smithicus.com (Jefferson Smith) — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 23:28:01 +0000

The old-timey way to manage your money:

Throw your cash into buckets
Spend the month shooting holes in them
And try not to let them run dry
Fun for the whole family.

A simple data system for planning personal budgets and tracking your spending. Works on Linux CLI and also as local web interface. The guiding principles are simplicity, verifiability, and minimal user effort for maximum value.

Data is taken directly from bank records, downloaded in CSV form and never modified. App user inputs are tracked in human readable CSV files and everything is tracked in a GIT repo to provide easy rollback.

The data is read directly from banking CSV files. Every month is completely isolated from the previous and next. There is no data carried from month to month, other than the unspent funds in the cistern.

Word Search

jeff@smithicus.com (Jefferson Smith) — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 11:16:27 +0000

One language learning tool that really worked for me (for a while) was LingQ. I especially like the ability to studying language materials one sentence at a time. But as I’ve gotten more fluent, I’ve come to find the implementation increasingly frustrating.