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Claude Code Bookkeeper Playbook

From Peat Bakke · peat@peat.org · Bluesky @peat.org

Fair warning: this is a very nerdy work in progress. It describes a system I built for my own household and my own small business, and it reflects my situation, my banks, and my tolerance for plain-text ledgers. It is not accounting, tax, or legal advice. If you run with it, you do so at your own risk, and please keep a real CPA in the loop.

That said, I'm happy to chat. Questions, feedback, and "here's what broke" reports are all welcome by email or on Bluesky.

A reconstruction guide for building a personal + small-business bookkeeping system that Claude Code operates. Give this whole document to Claude Code in an empty repository and work through it phase by phase (see Part 15, Build order).

Keybase proof

I hereby claim:

I am peat on github.
I am peat (https://keybase.io/peat) on keybase.
I have a public key ASC9lLkXvhz1GS6yTqkMobWjU1gqaiz6OoYHWhtR4PbZPAo

To claim this, I am signing this object:

Keybase proof

I hereby claim:

I am peat on github.
I am peat (https://keybase.io/peat) on keybase.
I have a public key whose fingerprint is 82FD 6E9D AC05 DF53 9B24 304C 4DCA 622A C4C4 D8AA

To claim this, I am signing this object:

	The third party CC scam works like this.

	There are three parties involved:

	a) The innocent buyer.
	b) The innocent seller.
	c) The con artist.

	Here's how it works:

	SMALL_WORDS = %w{a an and as at but by en for if in of on or the to v v. via vs vs.}

	def titleize( sentence )
	capped_words = sentence.downcase.split(" ").map do \|word\|
	SMALL_WORDS.include?(word) ? word : word.capitalize
	end

	capped_words[0] = capped_words[0].capitalize unless capped_words.empty?

	capped_words.join(" ")

	; To run these examples (assuming you have homebrew installed):
	;
	; $ brew install leiningen
	; ...
	; $ lein repl
	;
	; ... this drops you into the Clojure REPL (Read, Evaluate, Print, Loop).
	;
	; Copy and paste the lines below and play around.

	#!/bin/sh
	#
	# Pulls updates for your repos, including registered submodules.
	#
	# Put this file in the directory containing all yer git repos.

	GITS=`find . -type d -name .git`
	START=`pwd`

	for i in $GITS; do

	<link rel="openid.server" href="https://indieauth.com/openid" />
	<link rel="openid.delegate" href="http://peat.org/" />

	<a href="https://github.com/peat" rel="me">GitHub</a>
	<a href="https://twitter.com/peat" rel="me">Twitter</a>
	<a href="sms:+15037014135" rel="me">SMS</a>

	FOO=/long/path/to/some/file.rb
	echo ${FOO##*/}