Dominik Hofer

Reposting @aka.dad

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.

Quoting @hyl.st

Reposting @robertbirming.com

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

Reposting @pilcrowonpaper.com

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

Quoting @spencer.place

Reposting @spencer.place

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

Reposting @lucas.love

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...

The source detail page is also coming along nicely.

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

Quoting @bell.bz

TIL that 3D pixels are called voxels.

Published a lexicon for the first time 🥳

Well, four actually + the permission set. Which means that the permission screen now looks really clean :)

Link to the lexicons: pdsls.dev/at://did:plc...

I originally wanted to use Skyreader's lexicons fully, but by now, I think having our own lexicons might be beneficial (like Glean does it).

We're still gonna interoperate with the other two readers though!

Wrote about the plans in the spec: tangled.org/dominik.soci...

Updated/improved the specs document.

The sources tab now is a bit more polished and shows post frequencies and when the last post was published so you can quickly spot noisy or abandoned feeds.

Decided to remove the “Create” part from the app. Instead, the menu now looks like this:

Discover: People & sources to follow
Sources: Manage/view individual sources
Library: Saved articles and ones shared by your network
Digest: “Feed” with daily buckets

The rule: always pay in the currency of the country you're standing in. Not your home currency. The terminal is betting you'll pick the familiar one.

Friendly (travel-)reminder by @eddiedale.com that can't be repeated often enough.

www.eddiedale.com/blog/currenc...

Fixed a small bug where users always got redirected to the current day when closing an article, even when that article was from another day.

Reposting @stephaniewalter.bsky.social

Inspiration Monday!!
If you like illustrations and technical drawings, you will love the work of Bryan Macomber. He created those amazing dataviz that explains, step by step, how some items work technically.
For example, the Pez dispenser: mechanical-pencil.com/products/pez

Feed entries in Morgenblau are now grouped into daily digests so you don’t have to worry about neither unread counts nor overwhelm when opening it.

Hope this gives more of a “newspaper”- instead of an “infinite feed”-feeling.

Codebase pretty much halved and the app is way more performant and “ATproto-native” now. Very happy with how this migration turned out: D

Had this sudden urge to try out Go this week and decided to just go for it on an experimental branch.

So far, the difference has been night and day when it comes to the available ATproto tooling. Will report back how the experiment goes.

YouTube videos now also open in a clutter-free interface inside of Morgenblau.

Soooo much better than the native ui 😮‍💨

If you're reading this in your RSS reader, chances are you’re subscribed to my “Everything” feed.

Since this can clutter your reader up quite a bit (and I don’t want to annoy you), I want to mention that there are also more granular feeds available on my site:

• Posts only
• Notes only
• Photos only
• Races only

I also made changes to the site so that most feed readers pick these up automatically if you just enter my website’s domain into them.

And you should also see the feeds listed below if you’re reading this via RSS (on the “Everything” feed).

The reader becomes usable 🥳

Extraction for feeds without embedded content also works pretty well (see second article that I open in the demo).

Started working on the in-app reader view.

The feed now uses Inertia's deferred props feature to enable skeleton loaders instead of long waiting times.

Favicons for feeds now get properly fetched with the help of this package: github.com/php-feed-io/...

Started with the visual polish today. Always makes me more excited to work on an app when it starts to actually look good.

Reposting @rossfloate.bsky.social

Oh my. This is spectacular.

sinceyouarrived.world/taken

A bit of behind the scenes improvements today: Made the feed fetcher more robust (e.g. auto-muting failed feeds after a while). Having Miniflux & FreshRSS as a reference really helped here.

stevedylan.dev/posts/wisdom...

Now I want to learn more about the history of Muji 👀

Feed fetching works. As you can see, I only focused on the backend part of the feature 🙃

Worked a bit more on the feed-io setup from yesterday and changed some AI workflow related tooling.

Reading tip for the day:

addyosmani.com/blog/agent-s...

Started with the feed fetching part of the application and trying out feed-io.

The YouTube algo didn't disappoint with this recommendation.

First PR on Tangled merged: The first iteration of the “Add Subscription"-Flow is done 🙌

Tangled is now the official home of the Morgenblau repo with GitHub being only a mirror (was inverted before). PRs, issues, etc. all live on ATproto from now on 🌌

• made a few small architectural improvements.

tangled.org/dominik.soci...

Made a couple more improvements to the "Add subscription" flow (like not allowing to accidentally add the same feed twice).

Started to work on the “Add Source” flow. Save to PDS already works, the UI still needs a bit of polish.

The overall layout is coming along nicely.

Quoting @leaflet.pub

Reposting @cozylittle.house

Pssssst! Are you making an atmosphere landing page and/or refactoring your sign up because of recent ✨discourse✨?

I got what you need.

Opens trench coat to reveal convenient, flattened, normalized svg atmosphere logos in color and b&w

www.figma.com/community/fi...
tangled.org/cozylittle.h...

Morgenblau is now being powered by Laravel + Inertia + React.

Probably worth it's own blog post about the why behind the decision, but the TLDR is: Laravel is just my favorite framework and where I'm most productive in :)

Simple login flow with granular permissions

review.firstround.com/reluctantly-...

This was a really inspiring behind-the-scenes read. I only listened to a couple of Lenny's podcast episodes so far, but he seems even more likable now.

• the editorial photos in this piece are 10/10.

wiretext.app

Really cool little tool to quickly "draw" a wireframe in plain text, either for Github Issues or to pass on to Claude.

Discovered via unsung.aresluna.org/plain-text-h...