Ludvig Larsendahl

Full-stack Software Engineer, React Native Enjoyer

React Native developer, Full-stack Software Engineer, life long learner with a growth mindset. I build mobile apps, websites, backend systems, create UX designs, and do some dev-ops.

Here I write about things related to my interests: coding, personal finance, orienteering, traveling etc.

Ludvig Larsendahl

Have you heard about Questo?

I’d like to share my experience with an app called Questo, how I discovered it, and how I ended up creating a game for it that’s now available to play in Stockholm. It all started during a vacation in Luxembourg with my girlfriend. We were on a budget-friendly trip, hopping around Europe using buses and trains, and one day we found ourselves in Luxembourg with some time to spare. As we often do, we turned to Google and TripAdvisor for inspiration. That’s when we stumbled upon an ad for a self-guided tour with a twist, it came with a fictional story attached. The concept was simple yet very appealing to us. A narrative guided us through Luxembourg’s historic sites and…

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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,…