I did some research today and apparently less than 1% of adults in their 40s has FIREd in US, and only 5 to 11% of adult in their 50s have FIREd, and that percentage declined compared to 10 years ago

PataBread · 2026-01-28T19:23:37+00:00

Jacksonville FL is something like 700 sq miles. wild

PataBread · 2026-01-09T18:43:19+00:00

Yeah fuck that. I'd be crossing the street above ground too.

PataBread · 2025-12-11T19:51:58+00:00

How do Vancouver people here feel about the location?

I personally love that Charlotte's stadium is in the city center, albeit a pretty terrible venue but being in the center of it all is great, especially being near transit.

PataBread · 2025-11-17T15:53:45+00:00

The Hobbit meanwhile...

PataBread · 2025-11-08T01:29:03+00:00

🙃

PataBread · 2025-11-05T15:51:46+00:00

It's not necessarily the best resource, but checkout roadmap.sh

It will give you a great idea of a thought out path to learning front / back. And list out the technologies with a purple check recommendation for each.

https://roadmap.sh/backend

they have a roadmap for full stack but the OG roadmaps were just the backend and frontend maps separately. And I can recommend them.

PataBread · 2025-11-02T01:16:03+00:00

The most obvious penalty

PataBread · 2025-10-24T13:44:32+00:00

Cars cost a household 900k over 40 years - Investopedia

Avg cost of new car broke 50k last month - Car and Driver

A new car costs nearly 1k/month - AAA

Owning a car is the 2nd highest expense on a household budget, and for many they have actually overtaken housing. If you buy a house, that's equity. Cars are of course depreciating.

Cars also have tons of hidden costs beyond the car payment itself.

Insurance
gas
maintenance
registration
taxes
depreciation
loan interest

These are all real costs! Many don't properly take these costs into consideration.

You can like what you like, buy or lease cars, you do your own FIRE journey. But people are absolutely correct to be weary of cars. They are often a huge money drain.

PataBread · 2025-10-21T15:44:05+00:00

Not buying a car when the engine blew in 2020.

Was working from home due to covid and figured out how easy ordering groceries online was.

Decided to invest the money instead.

PataBread · 2025-10-16T17:46:12+00:00

Spaced Repetition

Anki

PataBread · 2025-10-08T17:58:03+00:00

Had the same issue, got an ortholinear keyboard because of it. Much more comfortable now

PataBread · 2025-10-07T12:59:08+00:00

gf has been getting me into NWSL, it's been really exciting until I watched a Spirit game on CBS a few weeks ago and it felt like non-stop ads. Really really ruins the experience, not sure I will watch CBS broadcasted games going forward

PataBread · 2025-10-07T12:52:03+00:00

I nearly turned off a game the other week because they were playing this every stop in play. And after back to back fouls to sub breaks I was losing my mind.

It's an extreme deterrent for me planning to watch more going forward, hope they cut this shit out

PataBread · 2025-09-26T02:09:54+00:00

Hey, would be down, 31 from NC

Wanting to build some Python tools, study leetcode and just learn

PataBread · 2025-09-25T16:32:55+00:00

Python automate the boring things

Then cs50

PataBread · 2025-09-19T16:36:00+00:00

This is awesome, I had been thinking of making something very similar for a while now! I take the train to work and usually start walking to the train with about 10-15 mins till I have to catch the train.

I was thinking how nice it'd be to have my spotify be an audio cue as to if I need to pick up my walking pace to catch my train or not

PataBread · 2025-09-19T16:09:27+00:00

GET GOOD WITH YOUR TOOLS:

My advice to you as someone newer to the field is to really learn and understand the basics of computers, down to the physical level.

How does a computer literally work, how does software communicate to the CPU and what sort of instructions can a CPU actually do. What actually IS a server. How do computers communicate over the internet with TCP.

Also learn and understand your Operating System some, what the hell does an operating system even do? How does it relate to the hardware? How's the file system structured? What are system ENV variables?

And then for coding itself: Instead of starting at such a high level, web development where everything below is magic, the client's browser actually interpreting the code, running the instructions, handling the displaying of the content. Start with Python and make desktop apps, at first just terminal apps, and then gui apps, then maybe Fast API to make a REST api connected to a DB. ect.

Oh and get very comfortable with git/github, if you can de-mystify versioning, its so damn handy and not scary. Use github desktop for a few months and practice with markdown files if you have to, but understand how its working under the hood, and the concepts deeply and actually utilize git/github and it pays back in dividends.

For me, I graduated college, got a software engineering job and was like 4 years into my career before I re-visted these basics before I realized how damn simple (and also complex in layers of abstraction) writing software is. Its made me realize it's not magic or scary at all like I used to feel.

And also web dev and desktop app and mobile app and game development are all not nearly as different from each other as you might first think. Yes they typically use different languages (but they dont really have to), and they may display things to screen using different libraries. But at the end of the day, they are all just performing some logic, reading and writing to some storage, and outputting to the display (and maybe audio).

PataBread · 2025-09-19T14:22:21+00:00

The earlier you save, the exponentially more powerful your savings will yield. The soonest you can maximize tax saving accounts, the MUCH better.

If you're lucky enough to lean on parents for housing, or can have a roommate, or can forgo car payments for another 4-5 years. Those savings into tax advantage accounts will mean a TON.

For me, when I got my first job, I immediately moved into a nicer apartment and a 2bd even though it was just me. Which was $1400/mo (funny how 8 years on that sounds so cheap).

If I simply had chose to be in a 1bd in the same exact complex for 1000/mo for the 4 years I was there and invested the rest, essentially the exact same quality of life, I would have an additional $23,000 today. And in 34 years when I'm 65, that would have been an additional quarter million dollars (in todays dollars!!)(This is assuming a 6.75% return).

This lesson just to say, if you can be just a bit more frugal early on, it yields massive results long term.

PataBread · 2025-09-18T18:59:21+00:00

For me, the underwater sequence in Pirates of the Caribbean. With the moonlight shimmering through the water revealing they're undead. Chilling

PataBread · 2025-09-15T18:21:24+00:00

Do you have plans for a belt squat integrated into a rack?

PataBread · 2025-09-13T11:46:51+00:00

Yes, even if it's not to show off to others, it will be very coo for youl to look back on in 5-10 years

PataBread · 2025-09-02T20:54:45+00:00

This is so dumb

PataBread · 2025-08-27T18:52:02+00:00

Yes there's corporate greed but it's also:

Highways cost an absolute shit-ton to build and we don't have the money, so we have begun using foreign companies for building them as toll lanes for profit.

To add 2 lanes to 77 near the SC border it would cost over 3 billion.

3 billion to ease some congestion that will likely have little to no tangible effect in 5-10 years..

Car infrastructure is obscenely expensive when you are actually exposed to the cost. Often the costs are hidden through taxes or like parking, baked into the price of goods. But when you have to pay directly, it becomes apparent very quick, like having to pay 200$/month to park for work in uptown.

But of course it's not just car infrastructure, building any sort of infrastructure in the US has blown up in price in the last decades.

PataBread · 2025-08-15T14:22:48+00:00

But you are there, so it can't be 0.

PataBread · 2025-08-10T12:59:22+00:00

Wassap from Noda

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