TLDR: The Companion Pass is a low effort way to get a bunch of free flights on Southwest.
For the past 10+ years, around this time I either present my talk on financial independence at work or give this spiel for friends and family. So I figured I would codify it once and for all here. You can find more current and detailed guides, but here is my concise bullet point version.
Credit card churning... [read more]
When I start a new job I often spend the first day bookmarking all the important sites we use (email, ticketing, reporting, documentation, hosting, etc).
At my new place of employment, they rely on go links. Not my favorite tech, but it is an interesting alternate soultion to my bookmarking workflow. Go links have been around for decades and there are a ton of implementations, including my... [read more]
Back when I was in high school, my grandma got a call from a scammer claiming to be me. The story was I got caught in a bad situation and needed a bunch of money wired right away. To which she responded, "Well, you got yourself into this mess. You can get yourself out." (click)
Yeah, she did not mess with nonsense—scammers or not. But many do fall for these calls. As methods get more... [read more]
This is my perspective on using Nix (the OS, the package manager, and the language) as a main driver for the past 2 years. I have gone to conferences, engaged the community, donated, submitted bug reports, converted my home servers, and probably spent hundreds of hours in Nix configs. I consider myself well versed, but certainly no expert.
TLDR: In its current state (2025), I don't generally... [read more]
