Become a sponsor to Simon Michael
Hi! I'm Simon Michael, an independent software consultant and FOSS developer, currently based in Hawaii.
I created and lead the hledger project - a powerful, robust, user-friendly Plain Text Accounting system for personal and business finances. Other projects include plaintextaccounting.org, darcs hub, shelltestrunner, Zwiki, and the old Zope Wiki (zopewiki.org). Some FOSS communities where you may have seen my activity are: Plain Text Accounting, Haskell, Darcs, Squeak Smalltalk, and Zwiki/Zope/Python.
I've been a FOSS contributor and project leader for perhaps 20 years. As a freelancer/consultant for most of that time, I've been able to give a lot of "spare" time to the community in this way. This is a pretty big investment of life energy, but it makes me happy, and it's one of the ways I try to be of service in the world.
I hope that at least hledger, or my Plain Text Accounting writings, have saved you some money, time, and stress.
If you have enjoyed or received benefit from my work - software, project management, community building, writing, teaching, support - or if you'd like to see it continue, and accelerate - I ask for your help. Remember that some form of "tithing" is a time-honoured and powerful way to seed the idea of prosperity and mastery over money in your consciousness. Giving to each other makes us all richer. From me and my family, thanks a lot for your support!
Featured work
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simonmichael/hledger
Robust, fast, intuitive plain text accounting tool with CLI, TUI and web interfaces.
Haskell 2,891 -
simonmichael/hledger_site
The repo for hledger.org, the hledger project's website.
CSS 60 -
simonmichael/shelltestrunner
Easy, repeatable testing of CLI programs/commands
Haskell 127 -
simonmichael/quickbench
Easily time one or more commands with one or more executables and show tabular results
Haskell 21 -
simonmichael/ZWiki
A featureful wiki engine based on Zope 2
Python 17 -
simonmichael/haskell-atom-setup
How to set up and use the Atom IDE for Haskell development in 2016. 2020: Obsolete, use VS Code instead.
HTML 83