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Ellisande
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Solo founder making financial ledgering software. I'm a huge gamer, lover of typescript and BDD. https://string-theory.finance
For the first time in probably 5 years I got the tree up more than a day before Christmas
November 30, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Just dropped a cool new post about the different currencies that companies invent for themselves.

We talk about the most complex case, where the value of each set of units is variable, like concert seats or real estate.

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Non-Fungible Currencies
Think your company doesn’t have its own currency? Think again. From loyalty points to hours worked, many businesses are unknowingly managing non-fungible currencies: units with unique values that trad...
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October 29, 2025 at 9:35 PM
When I set out to create a financial ledger where its impossible to lose money, I never expected it would make it safe and easy to intentionally risk money.

My latest blog post talks about how lossless systems turn every incentive into a controlled experiment.

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Risking Fearlessly
Take calculated financial risks to grow your business with confidence. We'll walk you through how lossless systems allow you to make smart bets with your money without ever opening yourself up to cata...
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September 4, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Giving a talk on type safe, state safe, BDD in TypeScript using a new library I built at #phoenixJs on March 19th. If you are going to be in the Phoenix metro area and are interested in BDD you should stop by!

#phoenix #typeacript #bdd

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PhxJS - Step Forge: Type-safe, state safe, BDD in TypeScript, Wed, Mar 19, 2025, 7:00 PM | Meetup
Phoenix JavaScript will have Justin Dragos go over the following agenda: \* Talk about what BDD is \* Briefly cover Cucumber JS and how it works \* Talk about how Step For
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March 5, 2025 at 6:37 PM
After using copilot in VSCode and being pretty happy with it for over a year, a savvy friend of mine suggested I try Cursor. It's so far beyond copilot for what I do that it was shocking. I knew the first day I wasn't going back
December 5, 2024 at 3:53 PM
My holiday project is to write a nice type safe wrapper around my Cucumber tests, which requires deeper typescript then I'm used to. I thought I had a handle on mapped types, but this always resolves the properties to `never`. Anyone have thoughts on how to fix it? #typescript
November 30, 2024 at 5:10 PM