Developer. Documentarian. Educator. on Marcus Olsson

Learn how data privacy vaults like Databunker use tokenization to protect personally identifiable information (PII).

Learn about the foundational ideas by Alan Westin that helped define the privacy field.

Learn how to deploy Fides—an open-source privacy-as-code platform—to a Kubernetes cluster.

Learn how to scan a Java repository for privacy issues, using Privado—an open-source privacy code scanner.

Learn how to protect privacy in datasets using k-anonymity and l-diversity.

Learn how set up Fides, an open-source privacy-as-code platform, to create and respond to DSRs for a e-commerce sample application.

Learn how to build a Hugo shortcode that reads a code snippet from a file and displays it with syntax highlighting.

An introduction to executive functioning for neurodivergent individuals.

Discover the untapped potential of busywork for boosting productivity for neurodivergent individuals.

Are you neurodivergent and using Apple devices?

Productivity methods that depend on being able to manage time don’t work for people with ADHD and those struggling with time blindness.

Stay focused by filtering out unnecessary information in your favorite apps.

A brief overview of my DevRel journey so far, and why I’m excited to join AssemblyAI’s amazing Developer Education team.

In this episode, we talk to Marcus Olsson, Developer Advocate at Grafana Labs, about Grafana’s open-source tool for observability and monitoring.

I’ve donated the unofficial plugin documentation to the Obsidian team.

Level up your technical tutorials and become a better Developer Educator using learning science.

Have you ever wanted rotating Notion database views in Obsidian?

Obsidian is a note-taking application that lets you create connections between your notes.

Manage your content calendar with this new plugin for project management in Obsidian.

A Svelte component library for Obsidian development.

A series of tutorials where I walk through different aspects of plugin development for Obsidian.

Grafana is an open-source platform for monitoring and observability maintained by Grafana Labs.

The plugins I wrote during my time at Grafana Labs have found new homes.

An Obsidian plugins that lets you manage and visualize notes for project management.

In Data frame design: Basics, I stressed the importance to document the data response that your panel plugin expects from the data source.

Data sources translate data from external services and APIs into a format that panels can understand.

Template variables enable users to create dashboards that change dynamically based on user input.

An unofficial Grafana data source for You Need A Budget.

If your data source retrieves data from an official, well-defined API, you can simplify your data source configuration by only asking for the relevant data, such as the API token.

In my previous post on how to display custom stats for your data source queries, I explained how you can return metrics about the query back to the user.

In this post, I want to share a pattern that I’m using for almost all my panel plugins.

The Query inspector in Grafana can be helpful when you’re trying to figure out why your query is failing, or why it’s taking too long to return a result.

The primary way for a data source to retrieve data is through the query method.

If you’re building a data source plugin, chances are you want to make HTTP requests from your TypeScript code to a HTTP API somewhere.

If you’re building a panel plugin, Grafana already provides the data you need to configure and render your panel.

I thought I’d share how I use Docker for developing plugins.

Learn how to manage your goals in Obsidian using OKRs and the Periodic Notes plugin.

An Obsidian plugin that adds pipe tricks to the Wikilink format used by Obsidian

Generate Markdown from a .d.ts file.

A Vale client for Obsidian.

Unofficial documentation for Obsidian plugin development.

Have you finished experimenting with your first dashboard and are looking to build your first production dashboard?

Grafana 8.0 is here!

This repository contains various helper functions that I’ve found myself reimplementing for my plugins.

Display your query results as calendar events.

Are you putting the final touches on your plugin before you submit it to the Grafana plugin page?