Plain Text Accounting
Take control of your personal finances the open-source way

Daniel González Lopes
Daniel is a Staff Software Engineer at Grafana Labs, where he works on making Grafana k6 a top-tier tool in the testing space. Previously, he was an early maintainer of Grafana Tempo, Grafana’s distributed tracing backend.
Passionate about observability, reliability, and open source, Daniel enjoys building high-quality products that help teams ship better software. When he’s not working, you’ll find him experimenting in the kitchen or getting lost on his motorbike.
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Managing your personal finances shouldn't require proprietary software, locked-in ecosystems, or subscription-based tools.
Plain text accounting offers an open, auditable, and hackable way to track every transaction with full control over your data. In this talk, we'll explore the key concepts and open-source tools (like hledger) you need to be dangerous enough to take control of your finances.
I’ll also share how I’ve been tracking mine for the past two years, along with some automations I’ve built to make stuff easier.
- Date:
- 2025 June 21 - 10:00
- Duration:
- 45 min
- Room:
- Sala Sierra de Yeguas
- Conference:
- OpenSouthCode 2025
- Language:
- Spanish; Castilian
- Track:
- Difficulty:
- Easy
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