✖ oslo, you pretty little thing

✖ oslo, you pretty little thing

Thursday, 25 April 2019

I'm currently sat in a cute little chain coffee shop called Kaffebrenneriet in downtown Oslo as I am waiting for it to be the perfect time to head over to the airport. The weather these past few days I've spent here has been amazing, over 20°C degrees with sun, although today makes the exception for the rule and it's raining.

My friend left the flat early for work, and I've been travelling solo today. It's been a pretty fun journey so far. Oslo is such a beautiful city and an easy one to navigate.

It's been a great extended weekend away from home. I've gotten to clear my head a bit, managed to decline a few job offers (as I really like the place I already took a job from) and been walking like a maniac. I can already feel my hands shaking - not sure if it's because of the excitement of new things that are waiting for me at home or if it's the plane trip coming up in a few hours.

Or perhaps, I've just overdosed on caffeine.

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✖ life lately: handing in my notice, finding a new job & trip to Norway

✖ life lately: handing in my notice, finding a new job & trip to Norway

Tuesday, 16 April 2019

Well, well, well, it's been a while.

I feel like I want to update some of the big life changes I am going through at the moment. This time I've been away from writing anything on the blog has been going so fast. I didn't even realise that it was so long ago since I typed a post, so a little life update would be pretty damn great.

landing on a few job interviews
My hard work for finding a new job resulted in me in landing for a few job interviews which were pretty fabulous. After the first one, which was a group interview I felt like I lost my hope in some way. It went well, or so I felt but I don't think I was being social enough. The funny thing about group interviews is that they are flipping difficult even if you're the teeniest bit of an introvert.

the project madness at school
We are currently doing another project at school, for an actual customer. Like a real-deal customer so I've been focusing most of my energy in that. I'm already going to be away for a bit too much from school, so that's where I basically need to focus my energy into. It's also international, as we're doing the project with the exchange students from different countries which I find really nice. It's amazing to see the differences between Finnish and other cultures when it comes down to working in the same project together.

full stack web development course online
Course and online were probably the only words that rang any bells for you, but I'm doing a little extra coding-wise for the school and signed up for an extra coding course. It's been fun and it'll continue over the summer which is also nice. Coding is a funny thing as if you take a break, you'll most likely forget the touch you have for it and we don't have any coding courses at school at the moment.

taking care of our home
I've been on a full Spring cleaning mode lately. We've been selling a bunch of stuff, donated a lot more and I don't know, I'm still left feeling that there is too much stuff in our apartment.

spring flu
The Spring flu took me down for a little while during the past weekend. I had a temperature, my nose is stuffed and I've been coughing my lungs off so life has been pretty fun in the recent past.

finding a new job
I am proud to announce to you that I've landed on a new job. Was about the time already.

handing in my notice
Well duh, it's been a whirlwind of emotions this past almost five years but it was about the time already. If you ask me, I should've done it sooner, feels like a huge weight lifting from my shoulders.

travels
I'm off to see my friend in Oslo after Easter and taking well-deserved time for myself before I'm starting in a new job.

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✖ snaps from Whitney Museum of American Art

✖ snaps from Whitney Museum of American Art

Sunday, 7 April 2019

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✖ basic coding courses for bloggers for free

✖ basic coding courses for bloggers for free

Thursday, 4 April 2019

OKAY GUYS, it's time to have a reality check. I've been a bit quiet about the whole Pipdig situation and to be honest, I've never used their blog templates, even though I've been a bit tempted to try them out and perhaps when they get their shit together I will eventually try them. And that's my opinion as a blogger.

My opinion as a developer though. Oh boy, what a mess of a code. Or well, the code was pretty itself, or as pretty as a sketchy code can look like.

And that's all I am ever going to say about the whole damn thing.

Today I am here for you. As a blogger to another, to share some free courses of basic coding that are useful for bloggers. Whether you're using Wordpress or Blogger, these skills come handy in future and you know, for everyone to understand better what all the fuss around the code was all about. I do not profit anything from sharing these, I just personally believe that as people who provide content for the Internet, should know the basics on how websites are built.

Codecamy for HTML and CSS
Codecamy is my favourite place to go to when I'm bored. And I'm not even joking, what a geek am I.
In Codecamy you can learn the basics for HTML and CSS. And what are those like in human language? HTML is shortened from HyperText Markup Language, which itself doesn't ring a bell to any human being but it's the code that every website is body and content is build for. A great memory trick is, that HTML is for the insides and CSS is for the looks.
CSS, shortened from Cascading Style Sheets, is the code you want to use to style your website to look like you want.

Basic example from HTML-code:
<html>
  <body>
    <p>Hello World!</p>
  </body>
</html>

This will create a basic website, where states "Hello World!".
HTML tag, in the beginning, tells the website that it's HTML-code that you're using. Body-tag is which wraps all the content that is in the body of your website. They will teach this all on their free course for basics of HTML.

HTML & CSS go pretty much by hand in hand, so all the CSS courses can be found under the same link.

Udemy for PHP
Wordpress rolls on pretty much with PHP, which is stands for Hypertext PreProcessor. It goes hand by hand with databases like MySQLi. This Udemy course for it is free, at least at the moment. I don't know how Udemy's online courses roll, as all my knowledge about this programming language has been learnt in school.

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✖ welcoming April: things I want to pay more attention to this month

✖ welcoming April: things I want to pay more attention to this month

Monday, 1 April 2019

Since I'm a massive fan on setting goals and planning things I have no intention to keep, this month is not an exception for that. Hey, at least I'm trying eh?

If you read my post yesterday, about how things didn't go as planned last month, I'm sure you know how awful March was for me. There were a bunch of great things as well, the ones I'm going to cherish and then there were some moments I'd gladly like to put behind me. I also did some very important and huge life decisions, which I will share with you guys a bit later on. However, this month I want to pay attention to things. I want to be present.

my own well-being
I'm going to go through some serious life changes this month, which means that I really need to stay on top of my shit and keep it together at all costs. It also means that some extra self-care days are going to be more than needed this month.

staying in the budget
I'm not going to lie here, I'm going to be broke as fuck which means that I need to pay some serious attention to the way I'm spending my money. I've been budgeting everything out during the past weekend and it's going to be hard. So very hard.

my yoga mat
I recently bought myself a new yoga mat, which has been amazing. Expect a blog post on that later on, however, I have been a bad friend to it lately. This month, I'm going to bond a relationship with it. Especially now that I'll be having plenty of time to do so.

I'm not going to set anything specific, as the times ahead will be a bit unsure. I just need a few simple things to hold on to while the things are getting tougher.

How does your April look like?

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