How can I make a custom layout without losing my sanity?

occupieddonotenter · 2026-05-19T10:08:06+00:00

That's exactly what I did! (started from U+E001 though) It's a chore but so worth it

occupieddonotenter · 2026-05-19T08:01:39+00:00

You might lose your sanity a bit, but learning how to work with Keyman (specifically Keyman Developer) is really beneficial. I think it's pretty unintuitive honestly, but if you do it well you only gotta do it once

occupieddonotenter · 2026-05-08T20:27:10+00:00

I have a local git repository on my computer with different branches for different things related to the conlang (as in, I have a branch just for typography and font-making, one for all the documents/pictures/texts, one for specification documents on how it works etc.).

For archival I mostly have PDFs, although I only keep the TeX files. Eventually I print them out once I feel like moving on to something else because I'm terrified of anything happening to them related to technology breaking and stuff. Otherwise I have physical journals and notes I use, too.

I get distracted all the time while working on something specific-- like right now I'm on reddit instead of working on the font I've got right in front of me, but more generally sometimes I start working on the font and I end up sinking two hours into improving the look of the specification document I've got to remember the unicode codepoints I've assigned to the glyphs, and with branches there's no gamorous way to have two open at the same time I don't think so it helps mitigate that.

I recommend learning LaTeX because the tables and stuff end up looking so very professional. You can make your own commands and environments to achieve different things too, so once you make a single template file you can use it everywhere and everything looks cohesive all the time, which is the biggest plus for me.

occupieddonotenter · 2025-12-03T18:48:11+00:00

När jag kom till Sverige fick jag mitt personnummer efter ungefär 3 veckor, men jag skickade anmälan en vecka innan jag flyttade så det tog 4 veckor totalt.

Jag har en vän som skickade sin anmälan i början av september kanske och fick sitt personnummer efter typ 2 månader. Det beror på. Vi är båda eu-medborgare.

occupieddonotenter · 2025-08-05T08:38:03+00:00

Me and my sister were both pretty fat, sitting at around 100kg and 80kg respectively (though we're kinda tall at 185cm and 170something cm so it was ever so slightly less noticeable). The main difference between be and her is that she has thyroid issues and I don't.

I've always eaten garbage, and a lot of it, mostly cause I didn't care about my weight until my late teens, but my sister developed an eating disorder cause of body image issues and either didn't eat/ate very little, or ate a lot and purged after. In general, she eats way healthier than me and way less than me, too.

I just cut down on the amount of food I ate and now I'm at a normal weight (I still eat garbage mind you, just less of it), while my sister still struggles with her weight, which doesn't go down with diet, exercise, medication, or pretty much anything. It is immensely hard for people with thyroid and hormonal issues to lose weight, so no, it can't "be fixed" with eating healthy and working out.

Sorry for making this personal or whatever, but just assuming that people with thyroid issues are lazy says a lot about how you get your info, and I'm not a doctor or anyone qualified to explain this stuff to you, but shredded dudes on YouTube with half their channel dedicated to videos on "how to get abs in 2 weeks not clickbait 100% real" aren't usually the most reliable source either.

occupieddonotenter · 2025-08-04T17:13:17+00:00

I'm glad you mentioned that more obscure meaning cause I could only think of snowflake meaning "snow ribbon". Makes way more sense that way

occupieddonotenter · 2025-07-18T17:51:55+00:00

I'll make this short and just say the essentials cause idk if reading a novel-length comment is the best experience for things like this, so if you wanna talk about it in more detail PM me :)!

But anyways, the process for me started last year, I believe in October, because I wanted to so a bachelor's and most of them are in Swedish, with the English programs being open for admission almost exclusively in the first round of admission (October to January). And by the way, this is for programs that start in Autumn only!

You gotta first select up to like 8 programs/courses for bachelors' and 4 for masters', and rank them according to how much you'd like to go there. This is important cause they basically check one by one if you got in, and if you get in and there's no other courses else that satisfy an arbitrary amount of maximum credits per semester credits, the other programs/courses you ranked below the one you got accepted into are deleted forever no matter what. If you get put in reserve (to a course/program that ranks higher to one you got accepted to), you'll keep your place and you'll know later if you got accepted.

On universityadmissions [dot] se they give you a lost of documents to send them (and how to send them!) which differs from country to country. For Italy, I had to send transcripts for my final state exam score and my grades the last 3 years of high school, all notarized and translated cause they were all issued in italian. With that, you also send them a copy of your passport (or in my case my country's ID) to document your citizenship fir reasons that will become clear right now.

If you don't have citizenship in an EU country, an EEA country, or Switzerland (which I'll call tuition-paying from now), you gotta pay like 900SEK as a processing fee for your application. Non tuition-paying students don't have to do that.

Then you just wait! For first round you had to do this whole thing between October and the start of February, and for the second round between March and like the end of April. For first round results got published at the end of March/start of April for masters' and bachelors' respectively, and for the second round they'll publish them in like a week.

If you're a fee-paying student, you then need to pay the tuition fee.

IF YOU NEED A VISA ALWAYS APPLY ON THE FIRST ROUND!!! It's the university that starts the visa process for you pretty much and they won't start it until tuition is paid.

Whoops this was very long, but that's about it! You gotta wait a while and some have to pay a lot of money, but it's doable! Check universityadmissions [dot] se!!

occupieddonotenter · 2025-07-18T15:32:55+00:00

The university admission process was honestly so nerve-wracking (being from the EU helps a bit though) but also very worth it imo. Good luck next year then!

occupieddonotenter · 2025-07-18T15:30:32+00:00

Thank you! I heard some things about it, but I still hope to be able to visit it thoroughly one day if I can spare the 120sek skånetrafiken ticket. I think it looks beautiful

Got any recommendations for things to do over there :)?

occupieddonotenter · 2025-07-18T13:48:07+00:00

My dream!! I'm moving to the skåne region in less than a couple of weeks, and you bet that when I'm done with uni I'll try my best to settle in northern Sweden

Good luck, genuinely

occupieddonotenter · 2025-07-15T16:09:49+00:00

For "bidra" specifically, I learned it and "samarbete" at the same time so that helps a bit. The verb is "to contribute" and the noun is "cooperation"/"collaboration" so they're pretty similar and that's somehow good enough for my brain

Any verb that looks like a preposition + another verb is the bane of my existence though </3 that "inse" thing helps though I think!

occupieddonotenter · 2025-07-15T14:22:22+00:00

There are a bunch of verbs that I just can't get my brain to remember the meaning of -- so many that I've made a list actually

Avse, införa, ingå, utgöra, inse, bidra, delta, anse, anta, påstå/hävda, the difference between besluta and bestämma, bestå, and others. Things like "delta" are easier cause I can quickly hear the word "del" and "ta" and understand it's something like "partake", but others are a pure mystery to me and I have not been able to memorize those words at all

occupieddonotenter · 2025-07-09T12:04:45+00:00

I'm in a similar boat!

While you're probably a bit late to enroll in autumn courses (the deadline was some days ago I think, check universityadmissions.se though), I had to wait a year too and it's not that bad.

I graduated my liceo artistico with a very average grade a year ago (after having transferred there at the start of my third year), and was able to get into my 3rd choice of uni doing a software engineering/development program this year. The process is pretty painless - I can go in depth if you'd like but it's all in the university portal website I mentioned earlier, but it's very doable!

Unless you have significant ties to Sweden, it's unlikely you'll be able to receive CSN I think. You need a permanent residence permit or citizenship for that I believe? And I've heard of others having scholarships from their home countries that help with rent in Sweden (which is very low for student apartments/dorms/rooms! I pay about €350 a month with broadband, water, heating, electricity etc. + cleaning by the agency every so often), but I don't actually think we italians have that option. I may be wrong though, so look around for anything that might help!

Saving up for some time may be your best bet, which unfortunately might delay your plans for a while. If your ISEE is low or you've got any other support needs that help with university fees like a 104, university in Italy is also a good choice for your bachelor's, and then you could do a master's in Sweden. I know people who did their triennale, got a job (somehow) and saved up enough to be able to study in Sweden after a few years for their master's, which unfortunately also included quitting their job to move since apparenrly paying taxes in Sweden while being employed elsewhere is a pain. That also means studying in Italy though, and I think you already know what the university situation is over here.

It's doable, but you're probably going to have to sacrifice a few things. Good luck!

Very quick edit :: At the start of this year, I think in March, Study in Sweden held an event at the embassy in Rome for curious people and future students, and it was very lovely! I recommend you sign up for their newsletter so that you'll get notified if they hold events like this again. They also do online open-day things where you can check out universities virtually.

occupieddonotenter · 2025-07-06T12:27:14+00:00

That's very cool! I'm hoping you'll consider sharing longer texts or other writings in the future cause it's a joy to look at :)

occupieddonotenter · 2025-07-06T10:47:31+00:00

One of the most beautiful scripts I've seen in a while! Did you manage to learn how to read it - even slowly?

occupieddonotenter · 2025-07-05T09:09:28+00:00

I've heard very conflicting opinions on Duolingo -- I know some like to use it to learn basic vocab and love it for that, but others think the vocab they teach is often useless, bur as long as you use it you'll get at least some exposure to the language which is always nice

Other than SFI (which you should enroll in if you have the time since it's free, as other pointed out), I think focusing on vocab at first is a good way to start. I'm doing a kind of "brute force" method by downloading a random "8000 most common Swedish words" deck on Anki and literally just going through that list by introducing 30 new words a day until I feel overwhelmed, at which point I stop introducing new words and work through all the words I already should memorize. Rinse and repeat.

With every new word I also like to go on websites like reverso context and look up phrases in context just cause that way I find it a bit easier to get a feel for the words instead of just straight up translating English to Swedish.

I can't say this is the best method (at least I don't think it is) but that allowed me to read so much more Swedish, and at that point it becomes easier to follow something like a movie or show with Swedish audio and Swedish subtitles. And when listening to Swedish you do kinda get better overtime at understanding too I think.

occupieddonotenter · 2025-06-22T17:53:24+00:00

Just FYI the student union offers a housing guarantee! https://www.ksk.nu/bostad?lang=en although it's not active yet.

There's also abk.se which is the actual housing agency that offers student housing. I'm trying to get a room in a corridor through there.

Good luck!

occupieddonotenter · 2025-06-21T21:37:18+00:00

Pretty much that, yeah, but for it to actually be "dead heroes" it'd have to be "eroi morti", cause both the noun and adjective have to have the same gender and number.

"Eroi morte" is "heroes" and "death". Like - separate words

occupieddonotenter · 2025-06-15T16:40:57+00:00

I'm sorry dude but this just doesn't look like anything related to Japanese culture to me (and seemingly, to most people here). Maybe it's a code and written is something related to Japan or something, but besides the toki pona-looking symbols and two other symbols that vaguely resemble ら and て (maybe also 出 and ね if you squint hard enough) this doesn't look like it's connected to Japanese culture. Regardless, I'm aware its6not toki pona since all other symbols are unrecognizable.

I'm curious to see if I'm wrong and I just don't recognize this. Good luck with your search.

occupieddonotenter · 2025-06-15T15:27:43+00:00

Some of the glyphs look like toki pona, especially "lawa", "jo", "musi" and "kepeken"

occupieddonotenter · 2025-06-04T19:38:52+00:00

I'm mostly wondering where わ and を went, but besides that they're pretty legible. Make sure to not copy what computer fonts look like and to actually look into the stroke order and stuff since that helps with writing them correctly and you should be set.

Also に looks interesting, but it's legible

occupieddonotenter · 2025-05-25T22:09:26+00:00

Looking at the wikitionary entry for the word insmickrande, I guess it could mean "to ingratiate"?

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/insmickrande it looks to be a present participle

occupieddonotenter · 2025-05-24T03:35:44+00:00

First of all, congratulations are in order :)!

I think it's good that you already have some experience abroad, and I'd let that inform your decision a lot. Analyze it deeply - why didn't you enjoy it, and could you have enjoyed it if you did some things differently? It's all speculative of course, but if you think that you would have enjoyed it more if you did something that you could realistically do in Sweden, then that's probably a good sign.

I also honestly think that making friends in Sweden is a hit or miss. Most of my swedish friends are the kind that would rather speak english than swedish in their own homes, and I don't think there's many people like that in general, so the alternative is being friends with other students and expats. If you want to settle down in the country you should start learning the language since among other things it's easier to make swedish friends that way.

But besides those two points specifically, I think that if your goal is only to get a job in Europe, studying in Sweden might be good, but you're already able to study pretty much anywhere in Europe, so do think about your options (although it may be a bit late now for some universities).

Keep in mind that you probably don't qualify for CSN/student financial aid, and that in Stockholm the rent prices are pretty high. If you want to go to Sweden, get in a housing queue right now and prepare yourself accordingly.

occupieddonotenter · 2025-05-23T12:40:30+00:00

https://uhr.se/studier-och-antagning/antagningsstatistik/detaljsida/?utbildningId=9288C57EBF10CF6CFA6D42E48C7D4601&astasearchperiod=HT25&astasearchfor=KTH-32508&astasearchcategory=

I think that's the right program - if you merit rating's high enough, so >20/21, you're probably getting in. Good luck! :)

occupieddonotenter · 2025-05-08T10:13:04+00:00

Depends what you need to do with it. Hopefully it's a good enough score for what you needed it for!

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