Ludvig Larsendahl

Ludvig Larsendahl

Death of the sideproject?

Over the years I've built and maintained a bunch of tools, apps and libraries, with varying amounts of success. Recently though, with how easy AI has made coding and how widely it's been adopted, I've started asking myself what the point of most of them is anymore. The point used to be that me with my coding skills could make small tools that improved people's lives, coders and non-coders alike. That's not really the case anymore, since anyone can prompt almost anything into existence (with varying amounts of success). The other problem is that side projects have never been my main focus, so I've never put in the effort needed to keep all of them up to par code-wise. So…

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Tinkering with code using AI

There's no need to introduce AI or how it's taking over software development. Opinions differ on how much it will replace humans, but it's cemented itself as a programmer's primary source of information, the way Stack Overflow did in the pre-AI era. As a seasoned programmer and homelabber, one thing I love about AI is how easy it makes getting a small personal project going, and how it keeps things fun. A recent example: I wanted to hook up Apple Health to Claude for yet another attempt at getting a solid workout plan out of AI. I'd tried various "agents," "projects," "prompts," and so on before, with disappointing results. This time I had hope. Combining access to Apple Health, Calendars,…

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Sarek 2024

This is a blog post I wrote after my 2024 Sarek trip. I'm republishing it here to archive it. Its all in Swedish though, but you can read Swedish fluently right? En vandring, med toppar. Sarek är för mig en mycket spännande plats, fylld av äventyr, magnifik natur, och utmaningar. Jag har besökt Sarek tillsammans med min pappa nästan varje år sedan 2016. Vi har under den tiden lyckats utforska flera olika delar av den nästan 2000 kv/km stora nationalparken. Vi har träffat flera intressanta personer, som till exempel professor Axel Hambergs barnbarn. Hamberg den äldre utförde flertalet expeditioner in i Sarek som utmynnade i avhandlingar och en professor-titel på Uppsala universitet. Även personer som Harry Skarin med sin ”fjälltaxi”…

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Lyxfällan & Kronofogden

What is Lyxfällan and what is Kronofogden? Those are questions we need to answer in English before we continue discussing the topic. Lyxfällan is a Swedish show about personal finance, and revolves around Swedish people that are in high debt and with really bad spending habits. Also I found this blog post about the whole format being ripped off: Link (not sure if it is true, but it was an interesting read). Kronofogden is a Swedish governmental authority that enforces the collection of debt, both from and to private individuals and companies. As someone interested in personal finance Lyxfällan has been one of my favorite "trash TV" programs to follow throughout the years. They have this big blackboard where they present…

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What does 2026 hold?

I had the fortune of having a "Christmas break" - which left me some time to think about what 2026 will hold. I made 3 observations that I feel are solid enough to actually write down. Here we go: I have been thinking about this throughout 2025, ever since Trump was inaugurated. It seems like ever since the US election everyone "in power" (broadly speaking... whatever that means) has been shifting their messaging to trying to culturally align with the new president. One example I saw a YouTuber mention was how Mark Zuckerberg went on Joe Rogan with a gold chain and talked about masculinity, which is a quite funny shift for him. This has basically lead to a shift…