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Sometimes it is faster to copy text from websites or apps than typing. For example, addresses, phone numbers and Asian language texts. Also, copying is less prone to typing errors.

Surprising air ticket prices for travelling between Japan, Taiwan and US.

My travel guide for Japan 日本. The guide includes the following cities: Tokyo 東京, Hakone 箱根, Osaka 大阪 and Kyoto 京都.

Python versions 3.11+ ship with a version of Tomli: the tomllib standard library module.

Short answer: an error.

In a previous post, I shared why I chose Beancount to track financial data. I have been an user for some time. I have not found importers for Japan financial institutions so I wrote my own.

Typically, programs have default configurations. Often, we want to override the defaults partially. Let see how easy this is with TOML in Python.

Many Youtube videos have subtitles. How do you share a Youtube video that plays with a specific language subtitle turned on?

Here is a table listing some of Vanguard mutual funds and their Vanguard ETF equivalents.

By labeling financial transactions with categories in Beancount, the tool automatically calculates the subtotals of each category, from which fava generates useful visualizations.