Dominik Hofer

how we looking fam

Zeitgeist 2.0 is out now, and I think it's the best journaling app around. Let me show you why. 🧵

The DPG registry came up just this week in our “sustainable digitalization” course at uni and now my PDS host is on there, what a timing 🥳

TIL that json5 is a legit file format: json5.org

Introducing SocialSpec.org: APIs for social engagement on the World Wide Web (of websites). Built on open standards. socialspec.org

So many lowering the floor but who's raising the ceiling?

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Little Billy interaction exploration for billow.so ☁️

There is so much good stuff happening all the time that we just don't hear about because a large % of news/discourse suffers from negativity bias. Luckily, sites like goodnews.eu/en/ exist :)

What is direct democracy, essentially? For us in Switzerland, it means very frequent voting: ≈9 federal ballot measures per year, plus a large volume of cantonal and local votes. But it also means a practical challenge: who can open the voting envelope without tearing it apart? Always a tricky one

Back to @dominikhofer.me 🪄 dominik.social was a cool handle but it felt a bit weird in other ATProto contexts like on Tangled plus it was disconnected from my personal website.

this is basically why you haven’t seen anything new come out. the companies and people who are already capable of shipping are still doing so at faster rates, while most projects get abandoned

I increasingly think that little games like this and @pudding.cool style visual essays are the best ways of informing the public about issues in a way that doesn't feel abstract anymore. The board game “Daybreak” also does this very well regarding climate change.

🙋‍♂️ ever wanted to build something without needing to configure a db, auth, file storage or a cms? it turns out you already have all four if you have a bluesky account 👉 airspace is a typed client for it

Switching to a Pixel I moved from iOS to Android.

10:1 A good old rule of thumb.

My simpler home on the internet Iteration number three of my personal website.

You’re not overthinking, you’re underdoing

riding the internet subway to recent links people have visited..

hard pill to swallow for atproto developers/creators: 99% of potential users either do not care about, value, understand, or want to “own their own data” i see so many apps/projects lead with this “value prop”, but it’s not an important or meaningful consideration for most people

As always, it’s the simplest productivity techniques that work the best. https://dominikhofer.me/ticking-boxes

I really like how @morgen.blue’s ”discover” page is coming together. Especially the expand interaction 🪄 #buildinpublic

A stack of emails and text messages and one question: Who committed the murder and why? https://dominikhofer.me/the-appeal

And what makes them look iconic. https://dominikhofer.me/how-metro-maps-evolved

How much you play is my favorite measure of success in this industry. You stop looking up to tech execs (who look miserable) or hyper-growth founders (stressed) and start looking up to independent creative minds who shape a space that allows them to play.

After thinking about this question all weekend, I think my favorite candidate is the alchemical symbol for air: 🜁 It’s connotes both atmosphere and “transfer”. It’s a standard Unicode character. It references a capital “A.” And it’s very simple, which feels appropriate for a protocol, like 🌐 or 🛜.

correct. no code - whether written by a human or an agent - should be getting reviewed by a human without being first reviewed by another agent. imo that includes reviewing yourself! respect your own time and dont review the agents work until it’s asked for review from another model.

This 👇 And it doesn't even take that much to make a product look more polished (80/20 rule, as always). Being *intentional* about a few fundamental design choices goes a loooooong way.

"but where are all the bluesky instances?" i've heard this so many times that i wrote an explainer

Which world cup countries would qualify for the knock-out stages based on their per-capita CO2 emissions. via @republik.ch

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made atproto.md awhile ago, just added some relay features. discover repos by collection and constellation backlinks. connect your agent to the /mcp to fetch records, resolve actors, discover repos and more. try it out, suggest stuff, contribute.

Folded my first #origami crane today because I needed a break from studying 😶‍🌫️ Let's hope it brings me luck for the exams :)

I'm look forward to see what @dominik.social got cooking with morgen.blue

Announcing my auth book! A completely free online resource on implementing auth with fully-featured examples Over 10,000 words right now and I still have plenty of things to write about auth.pilcrowonpaper.com

ok i finally made this available to use! try it out and lmk what you think.. it's weirdly intimate? but im pretty sure ppl think im a bot when i reply right after they post hah.spencer.place/messages

Not surprised since I have to get up early every day anyways to walk my dog ^^ cronotype.vercel.app/hfrdmnk

Starting a new experiment to see what happens. For the next 100 days I will create 100 short-form videos and post them on my social channels and as a podcast on my website. Here is day 001. videos.cdn.lucas-fischer.com/videos/day-0...

I always imagine a little gopher inside the web server frantically hitting a red "danger" button when reading sentences like this 😂 #golang

Starting to dive into @ajmedwards.bsky.social's "Let's Go" book, wish me luck 🤞 #golang

Last Tuesday, I completed my latest PACT. https://dominikhofer.me/30-days-of-building-morgenblau

Yesterday's post was the 30th entry of my Morgenblau PACT: dominikhofer.me/a-new-commit... Will publish a quick recap/reflection post on my blog in the coming days :)

The source detail page is also coming along nicely. #morgenblau #buildinpublic

Morgenblau's codebase rn:

Saving posts in Morgenblau has landed, which also means that a second lexicon is now officially in use. #morgenblau #buildinpublic

TIL that 3D pixels are called voxels.