TestFlight is now open for the next Bills to Budget release!
The next update makes it easier to bring one-time and irregular income into your plan, and to review your accounts before small mismatches turn into bigger ones.
Try it now!
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It’s so bad, I’ve gone back to wearing my Rangers hat. At least they’re not losing anymore.
Just realized that Codex's 'Review' tab is a GitHub-style code review interface that let's you chat about changes with the AI, collecting comments, and then submitting them all together. Not sure if this is a new feature, or if it's been there forever, but it's exactly what I've been looking for!
Sad to have missed it - hoping to be back next year!
Yeah, I looked into gh actions at one point, but didn’t get far. I’d love to run it on my Synology, but I don’t think there’s a way to do it. Mac mini might be in my future eventually
Sounds like a winner!
I’m just running it locally, but I might look into CI/CD eventually — CI/CD tends to be non-standard and expensive
and I get charged for each one of them. I finally told Codex to run my script, and I had the whole thing done in 15 minutes. 🤬
Does Apple use this system? It's always bugged me that such a slow service charges based on time, but the random failures — which they also charge for — are mind numbing.
each archive to AppStore Connect using the ASC cli. Rock solid, and takes about 15 minutes total. In the last week since Xcode Cloud usage has reset, each build costs me about an hour in usage, and has random failures. Today, I had 3 completely different failures in a row on the same commit…
Xcode Cloud is such shit. Last month, I hit my 50 hour limit, and instead of overpaying for more time, I had Claude write me a script that replicates the entire process — clones my 'main' branch in a temp folder, runs all of my unit tests on iOS and visionOS, archives on each platform, and uploads…
Big changes to the Bills to Budget Account View coming up, designed to make it simpler to see what coming up for any account, and to give you a full account of all of your past transactions - both expenses and income.
Release expected in early May - Test Flight coming soon!
For sure - they have a ‘ship fast’ culture, and a lot of the things have been shit. I had been trying to find a use for Cowork for weeks, but kept running into obvious little issues with the UI. All of this came to a head a few weeks ago, and broke the tool that they’ve been making their name on.
... will end up shifting back and forth every so often, so I'm trying to keep my workflow portable. Luckily, they all copy each other, so things like agent skills and MCP's are easy to move from one toolset to another.
A few weeks back, I had the 5-hour session limits on Claude 5 times in 1 week, after having not hit them at all for months.
Now I'm back to Codex, and watching it just do the thing like Claude used to. I've only my 5-hour limit once, but that was on Codex's $20/month plan.
I suspect that this...
Agreed - Claude _had_ been just doing the thing, and they were releasing amazing things at an incredible rate, but didn't have the scale to keep up. Going to the 1M token context window, and allowing powerful agent teams _demands_ higher session limits, but instead, they reduced the limits.
🧵
They are taking serious advantage of some of Anthropic's recent missteps
That’s… that’s a lot of code! 😳
I have a set of scripts that basically do this for me, but I haven’t had to use them once CC got native with tree support. Might go back to that with Codex, but the flow isn’t as natural with the apps as it is with the CLI’s
lol - I commonly throw 2-3 jobs at it, as long as they’re reasonably independent. I tend to be able to manage this context switching reasonably well, on the same project. As soon as I realize Codex had used the same branch for two sessions, though, it all comes crashing down
I did as well, and had some good scripts to manage it all, but once CC added support for work trees, I’ve barely used them. I could go back to that, but with the app (either one), it’s not as natural a flow
It claims to, but I don’t see it happening. There’s no setting to automatically create work trees, but there is a setting to automatically delete them.
For me, the list of work trees that it’s created is empty, even though it has done so when asked. I assume this means it’s not cleaning them up.
surprised me on a few occasions, and means that when I'm testing changes from a session, it may or may not be isolated from other sessions, depending on where the work was done.
Do others struggle with this? Have you developed strategies?
Folks who enjoy working with Codex over Claude Code — how do you handle branching/worktrees?
Claude Code generally handles this automatically, creating a new work tree for a new session. Codex seems to do most of its' work in 'main', and only creates a worktree when it commits. This has… 🧵
Oh boy — I put together my todo list for the day not 30 minutes ago, and I already have no idea what one of these items means 😳
It's payday and your balance looks great. Then the bills clear and suddenly it's tight. Every. Week.
It's not bad luck, you're just looking at the wrong number.
Bills to Budget shows your real balance — after the bills, before the surprises. Now you know where you stand, and what you can spend.
The next release of Bills to Budget lets you see and forecast your income right alongside your expenses
Set up a Pay Schedule and your income is tracked automatically. Add one-time transactions for irregular income too. It's never been easier to know exactly where you stand.
Shipping later month!
Most people find out it's a tight week after it's already tight.
Bills to Budget shows you what's due and where your balance is headed before the week arrives.
Bills, due dates, cash flow — laid out so there are no surprises.
It’s different for everyone, but you’re right, it’s all important. Balance your budget first, then work out how to build an emergency fund, pay debt and add to savings
Bills to Budget is about handling these early steps. The budget work will lay the foundation for some ‘human touch’ items as well
I built Bills to Budget because I needed a way to track spending with intention, not automation.
Bill tracking has been top tier since day 1, but budgeting has always been tricker to solve. I think I'm finally getting at the heart of the issue - super excited for the next release!
I've been testing this for the last week, and it's clicked for me - makes the regular account and budget review simple and (mostly) painless.
TestFlight coming soon!