Notes from 30 years of building - software, regulated systems, electrification and physical products. By Anders Hovmøller.https://hovmoller.com/en-gbhttps://hovmoller.com/posts/board-technology/https://hovmoller.com/posts/board-technology/In deep tech, many strategic decisions are also technical ones - and a board needs someone close enough to the technology to translate it.Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://hovmoller.com/posts/when-80-amps-wasnt-really-80-amps/https://hovmoller.com/posts/when-80-amps-wasnt-really-80-amps/A lithium battery bank, two burned-out alternators and three seasons around Scandinavia - and the difference between what a component can deliver and what it can sustain.Fri, 23 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://hovmoller.com/posts/strange-places/https://hovmoller.com/posts/strange-places/A software company in central Copenhagen, a garage on Frederiksberg, an old pigsty and a sailboat - and why companies only look inevitable in hindsight.Fri, 16 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://hovmoller.com/posts/on-my-boat-every-watt-is-visible-on-my-laptop-almost-none-of-them-are/https://hovmoller.com/posts/on-my-boat-every-watt-is-visible-on-my-laptop-almost-none-of-them-are/A battery monitor on a sailboat, an AI agent in the cloud - and why the weight of computing never went away. It just got harder to see.Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://hovmoller.com/posts/finishing-is-a-skill/https://hovmoller.com/posts/finishing-is-a-skill/No delivery, no invoice - what consulting taught me about finishing, and why the compromises belong in scope, not standards.Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://hovmoller.com/posts/when-the-tools-get-better/https://hovmoller.com/posts/when-the-tools-get-better/From view source to a mainframe that only spoke in whole numbers to agents - the blood doesn't disappear when the abstraction level rises. It just moves.Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://hovmoller.com/posts/73-percent/https://hovmoller.com/posts/73-percent/There is no sensor inside a battery measuring 73% - a December 2009 lesson in state of charge, drift, and models that get more confident than reality justifies.Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://hovmoller.com/posts/ai-writes-most-of-my-code/https://hovmoller.com/posts/ai-writes-most-of-my-code/After 30 years of building software, the job has changed shape. AI made day 1 dramatically cheaper. Day 500 still costs what it always did.Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://hovmoller.com/posts/electrification-and-a-diesel/https://hovmoller.com/posts/electrification-and-a-diesel/Eighteen years of electrification - and why my own sailboat got a used, proven diesel. A story about system boundaries.Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://hovmoller.com/posts/a-crisis-that-never-came/https://hovmoller.com/posts/a-crisis-that-never-came/A crisis management system that never activated - and why so much good engineering succeeds by looking like waste.Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://hovmoller.com/posts/locked-vs-disabled/https://hovmoller.com/posts/locked-vs-disabled/Locked or disabled? Why agreeing on what the central words mean looks like administration - and is actually architecture.Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://hovmoller.com/posts/brilliant-on-the-whiteboard/https://hovmoller.com/posts/brilliant-on-the-whiteboard/A dynamic document structure inside a SQL database - an elegant design that met time, and lost. Where 'day 500' was born.Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://hovmoller.com/posts/the-toughest-stakeholder/https://hovmoller.com/posts/the-toughest-stakeholder/Building pharmaceutical software under FDA 21 CFR Part 11 - and what the industry's hardest constraint taught me.Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://hovmoller.com/posts/the-best-product-still-loses/https://hovmoller.com/posts/the-best-product-still-loses/Eldyt.dk, 2008-2014: electric city cars financed by advertising - and a business case standing on ground we didn't own.Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://hovmoller.com/posts/never-the-hardware/https://hovmoller.com/posts/never-the-hardware/An electric car at COP15, electric propulsion at sea years later - and the realisation of what actually carried over.Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT