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- Ultimately, I ran into some bugs with things in the standard library. There's still a lot of warts and a lot of vague error messages. Hopefully this has improved since I last touched it.

- No windows support. Much of my hobbyist time is spent dabbling with gamedev so it always felt like eventually this would be a dealbreaker.

- I found it hard to grasp some of the type grammar. Mixing the looseness of Ruby syntax with strict typing can sometimes result in weird ergonomics.

That said, I think if/when it matures further I plan on going back to it. Macros were really cool and at the end of the day I just really like working in ruby style languages. The community was also super helpful on Discord.

Comment · 3 years ago

Thanks for the info -- this is really good to know. I'll keep pressing on as far as I can!

Comment · 3 years ago

Correct me if I'm wrong but some of the banks don't work in developer mode at all (at least, it doesn't seem to work with Chase).

Comment · 3 years ago

I'm in the middle of going down this path right now. It kind of works, except for certain banking institutions require more rigor than just getting accepted into the developer platform.

The steps, as far as I can tell, look something like this:

1) Sign up for Plaid developer account

2) Request developer access (without it you can only play with sandbox data)

3) Request production access

4) Submit application information including a name, website URL, and logo

5) Add a legal company entity name and address to my plaid account

6) Sign an MSA contract (no idea what its about)

7) Fill out a security questionnaire.

I'm at step 3 currently but I'm not sure how much further I'm realistically going to get. I'm not sure I could reasonably fill the rest without stretching the truth quite a bit and it seems to get deep into legal territory that I'm not sure I'm comfortable with.

There's also apparently different API behaviors depending on the bank: https://plaid.com/docs/link/oauth/#institution-specific-beha...

I don't have a lot of hope that this is going to pan out. I'm considering just scraping Chase with a headless puppeteer script instead.

It's possible that this may be simpler for other banks though, I've only tried Chase since that's my primary bank.

Comment · 3 years ago

Wow. Did you figure out what your next steps are? (understood if you don't want to discuss)

Comment · 3 years ago

I don't feel that way. I went through a pretty big exercise slump over covid and I bought an apple watch at the start of 2021. If you make your goals modest at first, the numbers will be easy to hit and every couple of weeks the fitness app will suggest you raise them - if you raise them each time it suggests, you'll eventually hit a manageable goal where you're spending 30-60 minutes exercising per day.

The gamification aspect was really good for me to get off the couch and actually do something but now that I have good habits going I naturally enjoy the extra walk/yard work/gym workout. I don't really pay that much attention to my daily goals anymore, but if I look down and it's 4 PM and I see that I'm a bit short on today's exercise goal, I might consider taking the dog for a second walk or making an unplanned trip to the gym. It's not the end of the world if I don't make it, but it's pretty cool when the month ends and I get the "you hit your exercise goal every day for august" notification.

Comment · 3 years ago

How did I change it's meaning?

DHH said:

> very few programmers are typically interested in having their opinion on typing changed. Most programmers find themselves drawn strongly to typing or not quite early in their career, and then spend the rest of it rationalizing The Correct Choice to themselves and others.

IME, my story doesn't seem to be that unique among typescript advocates thus I do not relate to DHH's statement.