I have been doing a lot of system/network admin lately using Claude Code on my NixOS config files. It has been amazing since I do not like the Nix language, but I love the Nix experience. Now I can really cruse on trying new things and implementing production fixes. I really need to write that update to Nix - Death by a thousand cuts. So much has changed in the past year.
One of the nice thinks... [read more]
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]