Shashank Sabniveesu

3 Things for Sat Nov 25 2023 (Today I Learned Series Part-1)

1. Fractional Leadership is a setup where executives in senior roles can concurrently serve multiple organizations with their expertise. https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/24/startups-should-consider-hiring-fractional-ai-officers/

But why a special term than contracting/freelancing? Because these ‘fractional roles’ mean the person has more ‘skin in the game’ than a contractor. See https://www.divisional.co/blog/whats-fractional-employment-and-hows-it-different-from-freelancing#:~:text=Fractional%20employment%20is%20when%20an,the%20company%20compared%20to%20freelancing. - particularly the venn diagaram below it

1. I can write blog posts from GitHub Mobile app! Now that reduces friction in publishing my thoughts and things that I learn, such as this daily! https://github.blog/2023-03-07-file-editing-on-github-mobile-keeps-leveling-up/

2. I’m going to embrace ‘Actual Budget’ for tracking my expenses! https://actualbudget.com/open-source

• They have amazing docs explaining in just enough words the concepts seen in the app and their significance

https://actualbudget.org/docs/budgeting/

Talk about great documentation for an open-source app!

• Actul has categories, rollovers and even templates for categories i.e. you can say every 6 months, automatically budget some $500 for auto insurance! And automatically use any remainder to cover other categories you defined!

https://actualbudget.org/docs/budgeting/categories

All this comes with appropriate documentation too. Just keep pressing ‘Next’ in the documentation pages at the bottom for more concepts like ‘Reconciling’ etc.!

• Even when it was not open-source, Actual used a local-first approach despite being a web app! “It’s a local-first app using a fancy technology called CRDTs that syncs changes across devices.” https://actualbudget.com/open-source#:~:text=It%27s%20a%20local%2Dfirst%20app%20using%20a%20fancy%20technology%20called%20CRDTs%20that%20syncs%20changes%20across%20devices.

Wow for an app that I have use for and is available offline despite involving a remote server! Of course I haven’t used it pre-open-source but still!

Question: Does this mean, pre-open-source, if I used Actual’s remote server setup, data used to be stored on that remote machine? Need to find out from community