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Siddhant Goel
Personal blog · sgoel.dev/posts · on HN as siddhantprogrammingwebproductivity
Siddhant Goel's personal blog at sgoel.dev covers programming, web and productivity. Since 2020, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “10 years of personal finances in plain text files”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-25, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Siddhant Goel's posts on building Cython or C extensions and on moving from Beancount 2.x to 3.x. The migration guide is cited as the best available unofficial help for that upgrade.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Staff Software Engineer with decade plus experience building and managing production software. Active Maintainer of multiple Python open-source libraries with millions of PyPI downloads
Most-linked posts?
- 10 years of personal finances in plain text files2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-12-22
What Hacker News says?
Relevant: https://sgoel.dev/posts/building-cython-or-c-extensions-usin...
Comment linking /posts/building-cython-or-c-extensions-using-uv/
on “uv: An extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust”Submitted Trying out Zed after more than a decade of Vim/Neovim as a story · 188 points
HN discussionv3 is out now and v2 is officially deprecated: https://groups.google.com/g/beancount/c/iTdRuvZnE4E I found the migration pretty confusing and haven't found good documentation on how to go from v2 to v3. The best I've found is this unofficial write-up from an experienced Beancount user: https://sgoel.dev/posts/moving-from-beancount-2x-to-3x/
Comment linking /posts/moving-from-beancount-2x-to-3x/
on “My Beancount books are 95% automatic after 3 years (2024)”Submitted How you can track your personal finances using Python as a story · 140 points
HN discussionSubmitted 10 years of personal finances in plain text files as a story · 32 points
HN discussionSubmitted 10 years of personal finances in plain text files as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Htmx and Django make status polling trivial as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How you can track your personal finances using Python as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gift a Donation as a story · 1 points
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