Wow, that is an incredible story! I had no clue. So glad you're fine now
:). If you ever visit the US, I owe you a beer or ten.
On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 1:06 AM, Dominik Aumayr <domi...@aumayr.name> wrote:
> A little backstory:
>
> In fall 2015 I was in a hospital bed, getting chemotherapy. I was reading
> HN on my phone, and came across a post about ledger-cli. I have never heard
> of plain text accounting before, but was always interrested in these
> topics. I did not really "get" how ledger worked that day, but a week
> later, again being bored in hospital, I started googeling again. As a
> Python-person I quickly came across Beancount, and this was the revelation
> for me: The documentation was awesome, the code readable and lots of
> examples in the tests. And when I opened bean-web for the first time,
> everything clicked: It all made sense, and it was all I wanted for my
> personal accounting. After playing with it for a while, and adding
> fake-transactions for a week (not much real business in hospital), I
> started to like it so much that I wanted to add my own ideas, make the
> styling more modern, etc. and thus - after consulting this very mailinglist
> for hints how to proceed - Fava ("beancount-web" back then) was born.
>
> In the following months my condition got worse, and I was not really able
> to keep up with all the feature requests and changes, so I asked Jakob to
> join as a project maintainer. Thankfully he accepted and has done an
> incredible job ever since. He has taught me a lot about how to write good
> code and make good decisions on features, architecture, etc.
>
> Late last August I spent my last day in hospital, and am fine now. During
> all this time Beancount and Fava have been one of the reasons to wake up
> every morning, checking my phone and seeing all the people contributing
> ideas, discussions, bug reports, code and examples. I'm deeply grateful for
> these projects and everyone involved. It really helped back then, and
> nothing changed: First thing in the morning I do is check all the activity,
> and trying to add, respond and answer.
>
> Thank you, Martin, Jakob, and everyone involved!
>
>
> > Am 15.01.2017 um 07:59 schrieb redstre...@gmail.com:
> >
> > Right from its beginning, Fava has kept up this incredible pace of
> growing and getting better by leaps and bounds *all the time*, which I find
> amazing for any software endeavor at all. Huge thank you, Fava
> contributors! Fava is fantastic!
> >
> > And let's not forget what I'm guessing inspired Fava: Beancount! Thanks
> Martin, for the solid foundation, and among other things, the great
> underlying design that is friendly towards extensibility and customization!
> >
> > On Saturday, January 14, 2017 at 10:16:06 AM UTC-8, Martin Blais wrote:
> > I open my email this Saturday morning and there's something like 30
> threads of Beancount-related emails from Fava users and developers from the
> github repo. I'm finding it incredible how much activity is going on with
> Fava, I can barely keep up reading all of it. Forgive me if I don't
> participate in every thread.
> > It's also fantastic to see people discuss and build some of the things
> I've wanted but never had time to, and take this to the next level, and
> it's motivating me to continue investing time in it and tidying things up.
> >
> > In 2017, I'm going to switch to semantic versioning to make your lives
> easier, hopefully sooner than later.
> >
> > Anyhow, thank you! :-)
> >
> >
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