Labnotes (by Assaf Arkin)

When you're looking at your past expenses, you need to know how to filter them.

Cat (D.Burch) Connect to Expense There's a debate going on whether MCP is better than API/CLI access, since modern LLMs have access to the CLI and can do REST over HTTP easily.

The IRS wants foreign spending in dollars, converted at the rate for the day you paid.

A feature can be finished and still be unusable.

Neatnik "Everything can be accessible." 🎉🎉🎉 Fastmail just approved Expense’s OAuth client.

There are many ways for the same receipt to enter Expense: forward it by email, drag the file into the editor, let the MCP tool fetch it, connect a mailbox and have it imported for you.

The search box on the expense list in Expense understands fields now. report:, category:, and merchant: match exactly, case-insensitive, and description: matches anywhere in the description.

Steven Hoefer Fold I love this. ❤️ It's yet another one-person app coded with AI that solves the eternal todo list problem.

Every receipt that lands in Expense has to become structured data: merchant, date, amount, category.

Expense now has a command palette.

A nosy polar bear and a lucky squirrel: Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2026 shortlist Some wildlife photos for your viewing pleasure.

Most expense apps only auto-import receipts from Gmail accounts.

Clarissa "What if we kissed on the Cray supercomputer loveseat?"

And I made a cool thing in Expense that I find incredibly useful.

nivs I second that recommendation: An Update on Leaving Gmail for Fastmail.

How I Replaced USPS Informed Delivery With a Cleaner Email Digest So I read this article and I just thought, why not try it out myself?

Karel Titeca "Richard Scarry already summarized everything there is to know about cyber security, about 50 years ago."

Me just asking DeepSeek to make my app go faster, to which it replies with: The cumulative effect across all the changes so far: the list page went from 6 DB queries to 4 (removed merchants + cached rates + cached account), and the edit page went from loa…

a brief history of consumption This week I completed developing the expense report app.

$9.20 to steward an app into existence in one week.

Pixelcats "Opened the mail ..

I have an AI agent that helps me handle legal cases.

Laura Tech Stuff MacPaw releases CleanMyMac CLI for cleaning developer and AI environments on macOS I love that it's a CLI, super easy to use, and cleans up your developer caches, build artifacts, and AI coding junk. brew install cleanmymac Writing & Edit…