👋 Hi, I'm Anders!
This is my corner on the Internet. Relatively new in this particulary spot, but have been found on the same url since 1998. Being new here means that some things might not work as expected, yet.
Anyways. Here I collect quick scribbles and longer texts, and links. Some of my photos can be found on Pixelfed.
85 posts in English so far (and even more if you understand Swedish). Don't want to miss the next one? Use RSS, that's still a thing.
Selected posts
Put a personal domain name under the Christmas tree
Online services come and go. A personal domain name is there for as long as you want it to be.
What is the exit plan for your notes?
I'm willing to sacrifice both features and UX for the longevity of my notes collection. And right now, I only find longevity in locally stored markdown files, text files that can be opened in any text editor on any device.
Tinkering with tools is not necessarily procrastination
You have to practice to become better. And trying out tools – be it features you are not using in your current one or exploring something completely new – is a way to practice.
The lastest posts
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.
The latest links
All 85 English posts are available in the archive.