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Guides and essays on keeping your financial data where it belongs — on your own machine.
Bank-linked trackers ask you to hand over read access to your entire financial life. A local-first net worth tracker keeps that data in your browser instead.
A plain-English walkthrough of the crypto a local-first tracker uses: PBKDF2 key derivation, AES-256-GCM, and why the vendor can never read your vault.
Bank-linked trackers trade your financial credentials for convenience. Here is how a no-Plaid net worth tracker works, and what you give up.
A subscription audit you can finish in half an hour: find every recurring charge, kill what you do not use, and set up a system so it never piles up again.