Shelf

The trilogy that shaped how I think about storytelling, free will, and growing up.

The companion series. Darker, more mature, equally compelling.

The series that made me a reader. Still holds up.

The answer to life, the universe, and everything. Endlessly quotable.

Serious scientific answers to absurd hypothetical questions. From the creator of xkcd.

A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language. You'll lose hours.

More relevant every year. The kind of book that changes how you read the news.

The 1945 essay that envisioned the memex — a device for linking and retrieving knowledge — decades before hypertext existed. The essay that inspired the web.

Accessible overview of how fast AI is moving, what it means for everyone, and how to prepare. Worth reading whether you're technical or not.

Genre-defying collective that blurs the line between jazz, funk, and world music. Live albums are the move.

Minimalist funk that somehow keeps getting better. Theo Katzman and Cory Wong are unfairly talented.

Harmonic genius. The kind of musician that makes you question whether you actually understand music.

Singer-songwriter with jazz sensibility. Quietly devastating.

The hardest-working rhythm guitarist in funk. Also a Vulfpeck staple.

Big band writing at its absolute finest. Grammy-winning composer who makes orchestras sound like landscapes.

Jazz vocalist and arranger with a warmth that holds an entire big band together. Her work on Nordkraft Big Band's Silent Course is a highlight.

Modern jazz with orchestral depth. Brilliant composer and Nordkraft Big Band's chief conductor — we're lucky to have him.

My big band. 17-piece jazz orchestra from Aalborg, Denmark. I'm biased but we sound great.

The reason half the films on this page sound as good as they look.

The composer behind every Studio Ghibli soundtrack. Phenomenal.

Monday nights at the Village Vanguard since 1966. The gold standard for big band jazz.

The swinging-est big band in history. Played a lot of their charts in Randers Big Band growing up.

The Danish Radio Big Band. World-class musicians playing everything from Ellington to electronic.

Top-class productions with national and international guest soloists. Denmark punches way above its weight in jazz.

Another reason Denmark punches above its weight.

The one Nolan film I'd save if I could only keep one.

Layers on layers. Still finding new details on rewatches.

The superhero movie that transcends the genre.

Three hours that feel like ninety minutes.

Red pill. No explanation needed.

The extended editions, obviously.

The greatest Bond movie. Reinvented the franchise in a single film.

The less you know going in, the better.

Horror that's actually about something. Brilliant debut.

A whodunit that's just pure fun from start to finish.

Mads Mikkelsen in a small-town nightmare. One of the best Danish films ever made.

Danish teachers test a theory about alcohol. Won the Oscar. Proud to be Danish.

Dark Danish comedy about an optimistic priest and a neo-Nazi. ATJ is a genius — see also Blinkende Lygter and De Grønne Slagtere.

Studio Ghibli at its most magical. The music is just as beautiful as the animation.

The film that made the whole world pay attention to Ghibli.

The Swedish film adaptations of Stieg Larsson's novels. Scandinavian crime fiction at its darkest.

The best TV show ever made. No further comment.

Somehow a worthy prequel. Slow burn that pays off in full.

Everyone recommends it, and there's a reason. The ending is what it is, but the journey is extraordinary.

Five episodes of dread. All true.

The most technically accurate hacking show. Also a psychological masterpiece.

Superheroes if they were terrible people. Uncomfortably funny.

Money laundering in the Ozarks. Bateman is phenomenal.

One of the rare game-to-TV adaptations that actually works.

Technology as horror. Some episodes stick with you for days.

Controversial, yes. I'm no Tolkien purist — the visuals alone are worth it.

Scandinavian noir at its best. The bridge between Denmark and Sweden, in every sense.

The original Danish crime drama that inspired The Killing. Twenty episodes of not knowing who did it.

The Danish TV classic. Set in a small town from 1929 to 1947 — everyone in Denmark has seen it.

Danish sketch comedy at its most unhinged. See also: Angora by Night and Team Easy On.

The funniest show about how much we need each other. 'Would I rather be feared or loved? Easy. Both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me.'

Painfully accurate satire of the tech industry. I've been in some of those meetings.

The one RPG where I actually cared about the side quests more than the main story.

D&D brought to life with an absurd level of polish.

Cars playing football. Learning not to rage is a work in progress.

Open-world done right. Every hill has something worth climbing for.

Short, brilliant, and quotable. The cake is a lie.

Where did the time go?

Peak Pokémon. Hoenn forever.

A Pandora's box. If you know, you know — and if you don't, go explore.

Beautiful engine-building board game about birds. Surprisingly competitive.

The best party game. Simple rules, endless replayability.

Chaotic card game that's impossible not to laugh at.

Deck-building meets racing. Easy to learn, hard to master.

Collect trains, claim routes, betray your friends.

Math visualizations that make complex ideas feel intuitive. Genuinely worth your time.

Music theory deep dives from a bass player's perspective. Jazz-heavy, endlessly interesting.

Jazz musician breaking down music theory and reacting to everything from pop to classical. Infectious enthusiasm.

Gergely Orosz's newsletter on software engineering, tech industry, and engineering management. Consistently excellent.

Annual programming puzzles in December. My kind of advent calendar. See my solutions.

Competitive programming problems from contests around the world. Everything from gentle warm-ups to problems that haunt you.

Math-heavy programming challenges. The kind of problems where the brute-force solution takes a century to run.

The Northwestern European Regional Contest. I competed for Aarhus University in Bath and Eindhoven.

Anthropic's agentic coding tool. Excellent for autonomous, multi-step work.

Open-source terminal AI coding agent. Model-agnostic, fast, and well-designed.

The editor I keep coming back to. Extensible, fast, keyboard-driven — not an operating system, and no RSI from the hotkeys. Your wrists will thank you. My config lives in nix-config.

Declarative, reproducible builds and system configuration. Steep learning curve, massive payoff. My entire setup runs on it — see my nix-config.

Mesh VPN that just works. Makes self-hosting so much simpler — everything is private by default.

Reproducible dev environments powered by Nix, without needing to learn Nix. I use it for every project.

The foundation everything else is built on. Also the source of my most creative profanity when a rebase goes sideways.

Fuzzy finder for the terminal. Ctrl+R for command history will never be the same.

Community-maintained man pages that actually get to the point.

Jump to frequently used directories. Type z foo and you're there. Tiny tool, huge time saver.

Modern typesetting that's actually pleasant to use. For when LaTeX is overkill.

Steep learning curve, beautiful output. Typst complements it, but LaTeX was my trusty companion throughout my studies — including my thesis.

Autonomous AI assistant. I wouldn't recommend it yet — but I'm testing it on my VPS and it's promising.

Declarative, reproducible Linux. See my nix-config for how I manage everything.

The missing package manager for macOS. Even as a Nix user, I still rely on it for GUI apps via casks.

Privacy-first email, calendar, drive, VPN, and password manager. My default for everything personal.

Data privacy matters. Signal makes it easy to actually practice that.

The best project tracker I've used. Fast, opinionated, keyboard-driven. I run my entire personal backlog on it.

Auto-loads environment variables when you cd into a directory. Pairs perfectly with Nix and Devbox.

The science student society at Aarhus University. I was chairman. Great people, questionable amounts of beer.

From my home town. I have way too much and somehow still buy more.

Canadian Rockies, Norwegian fjords, anywhere with elevation and Maud. My favourite way to spend a day.

Outside when the weather allows, on Zwift when it doesn't.

The holy trinity.