2024-01-01 Weekly Links
| Tags |
|---|
“The irony of man's condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of death and annihilation; but it is life itself which awakens it, and so we must shrink from being fully alive.” Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death
1. Kitchen Inventory App For The Win
Meal Prep App suggestions? - Link - DB
Going to try out the SuperCook website to inventory my pantry and fridge. Will report back.
Additional References
- Meal Prep Apps
- MealPrepPro The #1 Meal Prep App - Link
2. The Continuous Search for An Odds API
Best API for Live-odds? - Link - DB
The search for an odds API continues. I have had good luck with The Odds API. Some other options:
- Player Prop Odds API - Link - DB. Starter ($0) gets you 1,500 requests per month plus historical & realtime classic odds.
- BetBurger - Sports Betting API Pricing — JSON odds Feeds, best surebet and valuebet API | BetBurger - Link - DB
Additional References
- Note: I emailed The Odds API about whether they were
3. Mint is Dead. What now Tiller?
Mint, the Budgeting App, Is Going Away. Here Are Some Alternatives. - The New York Times - Link - DB
The 5,000 pound gorilla of personal finance apps is shutting down. It is just another reminder that you need to keep your own data your own data. Relying upon a billion dollar corporation to safeguard and keep your data is like Jack asking the Giant to merely store his family treasures. You gotta steal it back at some point (hopefully not at the risk of death).
It’s baffling how little access banks give you to your own transactional data. Sites like Yodlee and Plaid stepped into the ring to give companies away to immediately authenticate and access financial data. But good luck getting anything past 3 months transactions. The crazy part is that the dats is there and can be easily accessed; it’s just the financial institutions not allowing it.
So Mint is dead and now I am tasked with bringing over all my financial data to a new platform. Tiller is the front runner but that could change. More to come…
Additional References
- How to Cancel Your Credit Karma Account If You Hate the Intuit Acquisition | Reviews by Wirecutter - Link - DB
- GitHub - taylorfturner/personalFinancialBudgeting: Personal finance budgeting tool built in R. SQL database setup scripts along with a markdown report for use with RStudio. Analyze and customize the analysis of your personal finance with this repo! - Link
4. A List of Year End Lists
100 things that made my year (2023) - Austin Kleon - Link - DB
The best part of the end of the year (other than opening your Spotify Wrapped) is the deluge of End of Year lists.
Some highlights:
Additional References
- Book Mega Lists - Link
- Year-End Lists - A browsable archive of notable year-end lists - Link
5. I Hate Taking Surveys. And So Does Everyone Else.
Data Quality Is Getting Worse When We Might Need the Numbers Most - WSJ - Link - DB
A look at why data quality is declining. Maybe because we don’t want to answer a survey after buying gum at Walgreens?
Additional References
- None
Bonus Links
- GitHub - jhennin/crypto-arbitrage-bot - Link