Bytestone on Bytestone Bloghttps://www.bytestone.uk/tags/bytestone/Recent content in Bytestone on Bytestone BlogHugoenTue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000Archiving family photographs: a format statementhttps://www.bytestone.uk/posts/2026-10-20-archiving-family-photographs/Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.bytestone.uk/posts/2026-10-20-archiving-family-photographs/What we capture when we scan a family photograph, what we keep, and how we expect it to still be readable in fifty years without any of the software that made it.<link>https://www.bytestone.uk/slides/notationnotes/</link><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.bytestone.uk/slides/notationnotes/</guid><description><h1 id="1-introduction-to-credits-and-debits">1 Introduction to credits and debits</h1> <h2 id="early-confusion">Early confusion</h2> <p>Accounting notations is confusing, mostly because early renniasance mathematicians did not like negatives numbers. So instead of using negatives they used Credit and Debit.</p> <p>So I am going to show how to do it with transfers. This is not my idea but Martin Kleppmann&rsquo;s who wrote a nice blog post about it in 2011.</p> <hr/> <h2 id="2-show-a-deposit-into-a-bank">2 Show a deposit into a bank</h2> <p>The question is how does the bank represent this in it&rsquo;s accounting system?</p></description></item><item><title/><link>https://www.bytestone.uk/slides/notation/</link><pubDate>Sat, 25 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.bytestone.uk/slides/notation/</guid><description><h1 id="1-introduction-to-credits-and-debits">1 Introduction to credits and debits</h1> <p>Credit and Debit notation is confusing.</p> <p>But transfers are conceptually easy:</p> <p><img src="../../svg/bankTransfer.svg" alt="Bank Transfer"></p> <hr/> <h2 id="2-show-a-deposit-into-a-bank">2 Show a deposit into a bank</h2> <p>This shows a customer depositing money into the bank into their own account.</p> <p><img src="../../svg/bankDeposit.svg" alt="Bank Deposit"></p> <hr/> <h2 id="3-accounting-notation">3 Accounting notation</h2> <p>Original transfer notation:</p> <p><img src="../../svg/bankDeposit.svg" alt="Bank Deposit"></p> <p>Accounting notation:</p> <p><img src="../../svg/bankDepositAN.svg" alt="Bank Deposit Accounting Notation"></p> <p>The net result is actually identical.</p> <hr/> <h2 id="4-simplest-bank">4 Simplest bank</h2> <ul> <li>Safety deposit box</li> <li>Piggy bank</li> </ul> <p><img src="../../svg/bankDeposit.svg" alt="Bank Deposit"></p></description></item></channel></rss>