Fileformats

I’ve been experimenting for months on different ways to convert podcast content into a form I can use in Frankie. I’ve found several solutions, but along the way, I’ve left the resulting file tree in absolute chaos. I’ve got files in a dozen directories and an equal number of formats. There are fragments of scripts and clips and tools scattered throughout the hierarchy like bodies left to rot on a medieval battlefield, but there’s also no consistency, little documentation, and worse, still no definitive process.

Well it’s time to loot those bodies, gather the useful bits into a proper plan, and bury whatever is left.

To me, budgeting is fun - until something goes wrong - and then it’s like herding fish. Money is always in constant motion, so it’s hard to look at just a single frozen moment - to examine all the parts and see how they fit together - before everything changes again.

Funds go in and out of your accounts a hundred times a day. You get pay deposits, cash withdrawals, you buy stuff on credit or with cash, you pay bills. Then there are the transactions that happen without you even being involved, like automatic bill payments, subscription services, charitable donations… And let’s not even talk about our kids and spouses out in the world spending more money while you’re still in the basement trying to get a handle on what they spent yesterday.

As mentioned here, I recently got some exciting features working in console mode, but now I have to get them working on my phone. Getting the new code there should be easy enough - I can just pull the git repo - but delivering the lesson content is going to be a bit more complicated.