Dominik Hofer

Todo: Launch personal website this weekend

(I'm too tired after the exam today to do anything else except coming up with this list. Tomorrow, it's time to build again though ^^)

Reposting @stevedylan.dev

I wrote up a primer on the AT Protocol designed for normal people, trying to explain why it's such a big deal, and giving tips on how to get started. Near the end I listed some ATProto apps that people can use, so please let me know if there are others I could add!

stevedylan.dev/posts/atprot...

Publicly committing so I don't tinker too much:

My new personal website goes live this weekend 🙌

Just need to make some final touches and set up the hosting, then we're good to go.

One skill I recently created for Claude Code and quite enjoy using is called "continuous-learning".

It goes through the last n git commands and identifies learning opportunities that could be documented in CLAUDE.md or specialized files.

Quoting @disnetdev.com

RSS on atproto, I'm so here for it!

It's a first step into the right direction: dominikhofer.me/social-indie...

I'm currently building v2 of my personal site with @getkirby.com.

The core idea is to have a unified feed of all my content in one place.

I've now backfilled my whole Twitter archive + regularly fetch posts from Bluesky. So cool seeing everything come together.

Quoting @grabhold.now

For the next time you have to wait for a dev (or Claude) to implement your designs 👇

And for everyone else, just click the buttons, it's really satisfying :)

Custom range slider for billow.software based on Radix UI.

h/t to @cedric.design for the design ✨

Agent Skills in general really are one of the best innovations of the last couple of months when it comes to coding agents.

I'm experimenting quite a lot with them these days and it's so interesting. Especially because they are essentially just .md files (with additional references, if needed).

www.rams.ai

Interesting Claude Code skill to get more polished designs. Especially handy if you don't have a fixed design ready and want to iterate.

I used to just append prompts with "Think about how Dieter Rams would approach this", but this skill is so much more comprehensive.

My timeline didn't lie, this video is a masterpiece. Better story arc than most MCU movies ;)

Reposting @konnaire.bsky.social

Everybody thinks 'https://' stands for 'hypertext transfer protocol secure' but it actually stands for 'head to this place, sucka' followed by a colon and two laser sounds

Reposting @stevedylan.dev

Curiosity got the best of me: I built an aggregator for @standard.site 😅 Very much a first iteration and could use a lot more features, but a fun challenge all the same. Will probably do another blog post about the process and architecture when I have time!

docs.surf

Quoting @avanderlee.com

Some great skills for Swift development (also works with Claude Code) to try out 👇

Reposting @samwho.dev

Love this from @balajmarius.com.

balajmarius.com/writings/vib...

Reposting @simonwillison.net

It's ChatGPT's third birthday today, so I pulled other some quotes from the early
months of ChatGPT on my blog

OpenAI really did not expect it to be as popular as it was!

simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/30/...

Wanted to share this interesting visualization by @rubenmathisen.bsky.social that we took a look at in my sociology class.

Especially the first and last map are quite powerful.

www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeauti...

Really interesting article about how predictably people choose 4 digit codes:

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-2...

What a cool (and surprisingly accurate) game…

scope-creep.xyz/

Quoting @knotbin.com

Only discovered this now, but this is such a cool branding!

Like with FocusFlight (apps.apple.com/us/app/focus...), these airport/flight metaphors just work for me :D

TIL that the App Store web version is made with Svelte:

github.com/rxliuli/apps...

Affinity is free now and an all-in-one tool?

I'm a bit worried there is some sort of catch here (maybe not now but in the future) and that a one-time fee like before would have felt more reassuring.

But let's be happy while it lasts, Affinity is great :)

www.affinity.studio/

Reposting @wesbos.com

This Lando Norris website is insane

I dove into the code and broke it all down. Some really neat 3D effects along with scrolling and next level animations

Full video →

Just discovered a great new puzzle game 🙌

I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Oct 12th 2025) in less than 15 minutes
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cluesbysam.com

You know you've found a very interesting video when you watch almost the whole 50 minutes in one sitting, despite being hungry for breakfast 🙃

Reposting @marcel.fyi

Introducing Zeitgeist!

A journaling app that captures your small, everyday moments and turns them into a living timeline of your life.

Download:
apps.apple.com/us/app/zeitg...

Learn more:
tiptop.software/zeitgeist/

Excited for you to try it.

🎨 TIL why OKLCH is a superior color format compared to HSL (which is what I currently use most often).

In short, OKLCH supports the wider P3 color space natively and it works with perceived lightness instead of the absolute one.

evilmartians.com/chronicles/o...

Quoting @twostraws.bsky.social

Can‘t wait for this to be released, what a great idea & execution 🙌

Thinking about starting to build iOS apps again…

I still enjoy building things for the web, but since it's my day job, I want to switch things up a bit for my personal projects.

I already completed #hackingwithswiftui in 2022. What are the main changes since then?

Reposting @lucho.cool

This new project from Dan Hollick makes me want to share with you all the content I've been gathering as great "teaching".

These usually involve visuals and tailored interactive components to help explain complex topics.

#1 makingsoftware.co by Dan Hollick

Reposting @phoenix.tapbots.com

🐦‍🔥 tapbots.com/phoenix/

Quoting @danabra.mov

This visualization was a great overview for an initial understanding of the differences between AT and AP.

(also go watch @danabra.mov's talk that explains AT in more detail:

)

Third places

The “third place” is the concept of a public space where you can connect with others over a shared interest. It is called that because it complements your home and your work/school. A common third place might be the local library.

Source: https://youtu.be/hEvMZ5S6zy0

Libel-proof

You are libel-proof if you can't sue for defamation because your reputation is already so bad.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defamation

CSS @starting-style

With @starting-style, we can define styles that an element will animate in from once rendered. E.g. from opacity: 0 to opacity: 1.

Source: https://motion.dev/blog/do-you-still-need-framer-motion

A fun fact

The human species will 100% not go extinct during your lifetime. Never thought about it this way.

Source: https://youtube.com/shorts/f4wzUEQxurM?

A handy CLI trick

sudo !! reruns the previous command with sudo.

Source: https://youtu.be/mLznVlBAtcg

Bamboo & Glass Ceiling

These are metaphors for invisible barriers certain demographic groups experience when placed in a hierarchy. Feminists coined the term “Glass Ceiling”, while East Asian and East Asian Americans did the same for the “Bamboo Ceiling”.

Source: https://www.swyx.io/meta-creator-ceiling

Lil Peep’s first face tattoo

He got it at the age of 17 as “a sign of his commitment to avoiding the straight life. ‘A tattoo on your face,' he explained later, ‘is gonna stop you from getting a lot of jobs.'”

Source: https://www.rollingstone.com/feature/lil-peep-tragedy-torment-804686/

The Economics of Superstars

This term describes the phenomenon, where a small group of people gets almost all the attention and rewards in a certain space.

Source: https://pdodds.w3.uvm.edu/files/papers/others/1981/rosen1981a.pdf

Tiny Saturday

Wednesday is called “Tiny Saturday" (“lillördag”) in Sweden.

Source: https://social.lol/@birming/112961070486814112

The kickers always win

Kickers are athletes that still have the ability to sprint at the end of an endurance race.

Source: https://www.eddiedale.com/blog/the-kickers-always-win

The album that was 30 years in the making

This debut (and only) album by German actress and singer-songwriter Sibylle Baier was released in 2006 but recorded over 30 years prior in her own home. Here's the album on Spotify: Colour Green – Sibylle Baier

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colour_Green

Want to write better copy?

3 questions to ask yourself when writing copy (by Harry Dry, creator of Marketing Examples):

1. Can I visualize it?
2. Can I falsify it?
3. Can nobody else say this?

Source: https://youtu.be/TUMjnmfsPeM

Emotional Labour

Emotional labour is a form of labour that represents the effort required to manage and control one’s emotions in order to fulfill the emotional requirements of a job. Think about a waitress that pretends that your joke was funny. It is a concept that was first introduced by sociologist Arlie Hochschild.

Source: https://youtu.be/XiwUDzyACWY

Blue Zones

“Blue Zones” are regions of the world where people live significantly longer than the average. The common denominator for the lifestyle of the people living there is a natural diet (low-processed food), a lot of physical activity (walking, gardening, etc.), and generally a pre-modern way of living without the problems of the modern world (like stress). Some places in the Blue Zone are Okinawa (Japan), Sardinia (Italy), Nicoya (Costa Rica), Ikaria (Greece), and Loma Linda (California).

Source: https://www.srf.ch/news/gesellschaft/hohe-lebenserwartung-blue-zones-der-schluessel-zum-langen-leben

Exophony

I now finally have a word for what I do on this website: Exophony – writing in a language that is not my mother tongue. Wikipedia also has a list of exophonic writers (that are way more famous than I am).

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exophony

Rivers of Babylon

The famous song by is based on psalms (19 & 137) from the Hebrew Bible.

Source: https://pca.st/8ypfdts9

You have a Jennifer Aniston neuron

This hypothetical neuron is officially called a “grandmother cell”, but I like the other name more. Research has shown, that when presented with a concept you already know, the same very specific set of neurons fires in your brain (no matter if you see Jennifer Aniston in an Episode of Friends or on a gala photo). It’s like a little detector in your brain.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandmother_cell

Memories are essentially replays of neural firing patterns

That’s also how déjà vus work. Your brain plays a similar pattern to one it’s played earlier, and you feel like you’ve experienced it before (I’m not sure though if that’s really based on the newest scientific findings, so don’t quote me on it).

Source: https://pca.st/episode/d8d186e1-afef-4080-8c5f-0e896b59163d