Developer journal

Notes on shipped work, technical decisions, and lessons learned.

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Build Lists, a black-and-white nested-lists PWA with Goauth login Summary Built a React + Vite PWA with a Go (chi, sqlc, pgx) backend on PostgreSQL in a new lists schema. Users log in …

Show per-day totals in the Daily / Running table Summary Each date group header in the Daily / Running table now shows that day’s total spent, aligned with the amount column, computed in the …

Fix record page quick-entry rows and focus flow Summary Fixed Add subscription and Add row on the record page, which created nothing because the API rejects an empty category. They now open …

Ship reserve overlay ledger gates Summary Redesigned reserves movement dialogs so the accounting effect is the first readable line, kept funded expenses on one screen, and shipped a draft PR …

Complete the Reserves ledger feature Summary Completed the Reserves feature across foundation, split deposits, Income integration, reserve-only spending, transfers, archival lifecycle, …

Add direct reserve deposits with split allocations Summary Added atomic single and split reserve deposits, exact allocation validation, ledger-derived balances, filtered deposit history, and …

Finalize Reserves plan and implementation tickets Summary Explored the existing ledger architecture, refined the Reserves feature through iterative product decisions, wrote a detailed …

Convert completed events to transactions Summary Added atomic conversion of completed event costs into one dated cash expense transaction with a required date and expense section dialog, …

Evaluate Fourth Cross projects for Pennywise Summary Reviewed all 133 open-source projects listed by Fourth Cross Labs and produced a compact CSV describing each project, its potential …

Added Events planning and fixed tab-switch session reloads Summary Implemented and pushed the Events backend and responsive frontend, including sidebar navigation, itemized expected and …

Redesigned experience as company cards with dedicated detail pages Summary Replaced the long experience listing with five company cards using existing highlight headings and dedicated pages …

Expose free-money breakdown in dashboard API Summary Added nine monthly dashboard response fields covering spending sums, budgets, and remaining amounts for Essential, Subscriptions, and …