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Dominik Hofer
@dominik.social
Coder & occasional pixel pusher. Sometimes I write as well.

🔗 https://dominikhofer.me
🦋 at://dominik.social
📌 Switzerland
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Hi Bluesky ✌️

I'm Dominik, a young coder from Switzerland. I work as a #webflow dev and study computer science by ​day, while working with #laravel and on my personal website by night.

Some things I'm into: #running, #photography, #blogging, #indieweb, #minimalism

👉 dominikhofer.me

Cheers!
Curious. Creative. Coder. | Dominik Hofer
Hi and welcome to my personal lil corner of the internet. I hope you enjoy your stay!
dominikhofer.me
Just discovered this very cool too(oooo)l for adding minimalist lo-fi effects onto images: www.tooooools.app/

I particularly like the dithering and CRT* one. The ASCII art generator is also great!
Tooooools.app
Apply lo-fi effects to your images and videos: dithering, halftone, gradients, patterns and more. Free, no sign-up required.
www.tooooools.app
November 10, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Reposted by Dominik Hofer
Hi atproto from my personal pds!
November 10, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Ok, was probably some sort of caching issue 🤷‍♂️

Now it works! @alt.dominik.social
Any reason why my alt account on my self-hosted pds with a custom domain doesn't show up in Bluesky for other users via search and has an "invalid handle" tag?

bsky.app/profile/alt....
bsky.app
November 10, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Any reason why my alt account on my self-hosted pds with a custom domain doesn't show up in Bluesky for other users via search and has an "invalid handle" tag?

bsky.app/profile/alt....
bsky.app
November 10, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Ok, this is very cool: @paperbnd.club uses the same lexicon, which means my reviews are on there as well :)
Project of the day completed: Migrating all my read books from Literal and Storygraph over to @bookhive.buzz (atproto clone of the former two) 🐝
November 9, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Project of the day completed: Migrating all my read books from Literal and Storygraph over to @bookhive.buzz (atproto clone of the former two) 🐝
November 9, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Reposted by Dominik Hofer
This is a fun iOS app to sort some colour palettes and decompress for a few minutes.

I often keep sorting palettes one after the other.

The app's called Color Sort Therapy.
November 6, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Reposted by Dominik Hofer
Chatted with an OG Internet guy at the @atproto.boston meetup today.

Asked him about the last time he saw so much community excitement and engagement for a protocol.

He said http and html.
November 7, 2025 at 4:50 AM
What a cool (and surprisingly accurate) game…

scope-creep.xyz/
The Scope Creep
A chilling tale of deliverables, deadlines and doomed decisions
scope-creep.xyz
November 4, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Just an observation (and maybe it's just my bubble), but why are so many atproto devs also iOS/Swift devs?
November 4, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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
November 4, 2025 at 2:43 PM
TIL that the App Store web version is made with Svelte:

github.com/rxliuli/apps...
github.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Reposted by Dominik Hofer
Easiest way to boost happiness is to inject more art into your daily life.
Buy prints. Go to the theater. Install indie apps.
November 2, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Reposted by Dominik Hofer
Seeing a lot of people asking "Oh so now Bluesky has an algorithm?" And... Yeah, the Discover feed has been an algorithmic feed from the start, and there are lots of custom feeds that are as well.

Bluesky and ATProto is not anti-algorithm, it's about offering choice for feeds.
November 1, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Sometimes, I read a post about AP and only after a couple sentences realize again, that it's about *A*ctivity*P*ub and not *A*T *P*roto…
October 31, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Reposted by Dominik Hofer
atproto is like if you could post tweets to your own website and then twitter would be able to draw in all the tweets from across the web into a normal-looking social app
August 26, 2025 at 5:47 PM
The atproto feed has turned into my most favorite one these past few days.

So cool to see all these creative people come up and discuss ideas surrounding the atmosphere 🌤️

bsky.app/profile/did:...
October 30, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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/
Affinity | Professional Creative Software, Free for Everyone
Powerful, precise, and free forever. Discover Affinity — the next generation of professional photo, design, and layout software built for creative freedom.
www.affinity.studio
October 30, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Reposted by Dominik Hofer
unix philosophy based social media
October 30, 2025 at 5:55 PM
A lil logo exploration in the morning ☕
October 30, 2025 at 7:57 AM
I think I just came up with a design for my personal logo that might actually make it on v2 of my website 🙌

What's your take?
October 29, 2025 at 5:28 PM
If you haven't come across it yet, you should definitely check out powrss.com/.

A really great starting point to immerse yourself more in the #indieweb!
powRSS - Discover the Indie Web
powRSS is a public RSS feed aggregator for small and independent websites.
powrss.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Reposted by Dominik Hofer
Slowly starting to believe ATProto will be what IndieWeb hoped it could be.
October 28, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Found out that dominik.social was available…

…guess who now has a brand new handle on Bluesky (+ a cool "social" page) 😎

#socialweb
October 28, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Reflections after my first marathon.

dominikhofer.me/step-by-step

#running #marathon #indieweb
October 27, 2025 at 7:53 PM