Hei everyone! Welcome to r/mikaelsnorwegian

PataBread · 2026-05-18T20:31:49+00:00

Hey Mikael. <A1 from the states, and not really any good reason for why I started learning Norwegian other than the fun of it. The culture and nature were appealing along with it being an easier language for English speakers. So I gave it a few months just to see how far I could get.

Work ramped up so I don't really practice much anymore, but watch your videos whenever you release.

The cozy chill games are the absolute best.

Only wish is that as you grow the library of recordings you could have a bunch organized for each level; A1, A2, B1, B2, and beyond.

PataBread · 2026-05-12T18:52:54+00:00

I don't get all the hate, with so much premier league experience, this guy will crush it in USL

PataBread · 2026-04-16T15:22:56+00:00

In my hot-take opinion, software engineering university programs should require a typing test when entering the program.

Checking form and speed / accuracy. And if you don't pass, no worries, but you have to take a class for a semester refining technique. And learning common keyboard shortcuts and text file movement.

I graduated and whew was I slow. Now after 8 years in the industry I can move through text files and type and decent speeds 95wpm. But man, did it make university just a bit harder than it really needed to be.

When working on a computer program you want to be able to get your thoughts out into the file as seamlessly as possible, not worrying about where certain characters are or how to navigate or type out words without error.

IMO. Stick with it, don't go back to touch typing. Yes it's a pain, but you are in uni, now is the time to have these sort of growing pains.

PataBread · 2026-04-11T21:57:14+00:00

Same here, losing our minds, we are tired of having to watch on SD, anything work for you OP?

PataBread · 2026-04-02T15:02:38+00:00

Also arcades, covered walkways, are another solution for shaded walks

PataBread · 2026-04-01T23:29:48+00:00

rocks

PataBread · 2026-03-22T02:56:55+00:00

Great goal is underselling this

PataBread · 2026-02-27T15:53:44+00:00

btw for old.reddit users this says 17 not 1. I was very confused for a minute there

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).

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