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Personal accounting management is a tedious task: logging in to each bank’s web portal, checking for new PDF documents to download, then downloading for each account a “computer-friendly” record of transactions since the previous visit. And this is only to get the data…

All banks seem to agree on using the PDF format for “official communication”. For files intended to be imported into accounting software, however, anything is possible: csv, qif, ofx, or even nothing (that’s Oney…). Besides, the downloading process is not always satisfactory: the HTML forms to fill may be a bit buggy, the downloaded files sometimes have the wrong encoding, the included labels may not be as informative as those found on the web site…

Then I discovered boobank, from the Weboob software collection. This awesome tool can automatically login to each bank, and then convert the web site’s paged list of transactions into a standard format, such as ofx!

(yes, the title is a nod at something… guess what!)

You are aboard a space-ship, and you crash on the nearby planet after hitting an asteroid. Thus begins the tale of Blackvoxel. From the wreckage, you salvage a base machine, and you are still under the protection of your space-suit. Much like Matt Damon in The Martian, you are alone, and you have to make do with your environment and the salvaged equipment…

The Chrome web browser won market-share fast, and still is. But people tend to forget who is behind Chrome. Now Google (or should I say Alphabet?) decided that their Chrome browser feeling faster is worth breaking web sites and going against the established standards that make the Web an open  […]