Ludvig Larsendahl ⁽²⁾

Hey! I will try to do some blogging, which is a horribly outdated way to communicate in todays day and age.

LiveOL: A 10-year retrospective

LiveOL is an app that leverages the live result API to display real-time results for orienteering competitions. As it approaches its tenth anniversary, this is a technical retrospective on its journey, highlighting key milestones and lessons learned. The name LiveOL comes from "Live" (self explanatory), and "OL" which in Swedish is "Orienteringslöpning" which means "Orienteering running" - kind of. The project began on May 9, 2015, during my second year of high school. I had just started coding for mobile devices using PhoneGap (Cordova), which allowed me to build apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. At the time, jQuery was still popular so I used that. While the app wasn’t native, it worked by embedding web views into a downloadable…

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Frugality & Freedom

In my first blog post I want to explore the intersection of frugality and freedom, and how these concepts have shaped my personal journey towards financial independence. My thoughts are deeply influenced by the book Early Retirement Extreme by Jacob Lund Fisker, who is also the author of a blog by the same name. Fisker is one of the early voices in the FIRE movement “Financial Independence, Retire Early” and his ideas have resonated with me on a profound level. Fisker’s philosophy revolves around the idea that money is not an end in itself but a means to an end. He views frugality as a pathway to freedom, a concept that aligns closely with my own beliefs. In my view,…