👋 Hi, I'm Anders!

Obsidian plugins and future proof notes
Obsidian plugins help with different parts of your knowledge work, and with different kinds of notes. Understanding those differences can help when deciding what plugins to use, and how.

Condensing The Iceberg
What we need isn't algorithmic-free feeds. We need access to the nuts and bolts so that we can tune the feeds, i.e 'condense the iceberg', in ways that makes sense to us.

A Hundred-Year-Old Pedagogical Theory That Elevates AI as a Thinking Partner
“Explain it so a ten-year-old would understand!” A hundred-year-old pedagogical model combined with a theory about language models has helped me think about how to best use ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini as sounding boards and for learning new things – without losing the ability to “fly by the seat of my pants.”

A Hundred-Year-Old Pedagogical Theory That Elevates AI as a Thinking Partner
“Explain it so a ten-year-old would understand!” A hundred-year-old pedagogical model combined with a theory about language models has helped me think about how to best use ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini as sounding boards and for learning new things – without losing the ability to “fly by the seat of my pants.”

There is no cloud, but a server in a closet
This spring I got an old motherboard from a colleague. "Build your own server," was the challenge. Half a year later it's running at home in a closet and has replaced several cloud services I previously used.

Linkding is my new bookmark manager
Mastodon was right. Linkding is a great bookmark manager.