MillionsCompass
Practical personal finance for freelancers and solo consultants, plus build-in-public solo-dev tutorials in C#/.NET, Angular, and Swift/SwiftUI.
Latest posts
The Emergency Fund as an Exit Ticket: Why 3 Months Is the Beginning of the End of the Rat Race
An emergency fund isn't a safety net for disasters. It's the first money in your life that lets you say no. How much you actually need, and where it belongs.
An ETF Plan Alongside Your 9-to-5: The Simplest Way Out of the Rat Race
Building wealth costs no free time. It costs one automatic transfer and the decision never to touch it again. Why automation beats good intentions.
The Payslip Trick: How Much Your Job Actually Leaves You to Get Rich
Gross pay is a negotiation, net pay is a flow. The number that decides your wealth appears on no payslip. You have to calculate it yourself.
From Your First Paycheck to Your First Million: A Realistic Timeline for Employees
No social-media promises — just a real calculation of how employees can build their way out of the rat race toward their first million, step by step.
Angular Signals: A Practical Introduction
A hands-on introduction to Angular signals for developers coming from RxJS-heavy Angular codebases.
Building This Blog's Backend in .NET: Build-in-Public Log #1
Kicking off a build-in-public series about a C#/.NET side project — what it is, why I'm building it, and what the first milestone looks like.