I left Meta this summer and since then have been recovering from burnout and dipping my toes in independent software engineering. I'll make a few posts about what I've been getting into.

one strategy is to keep doing your thing much longer than anyone thought you would

One thing I really like about @croissantapp.bsky.social is how you can customize @ mentions for each network. It doesn't even have to be an account – you can also just write the name of the person if they don't have a profile on that network.

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...

I know I'm late to the party, but yesterday I watched K-Pop Demon Hunters, and it's honestly a very good movie. Visuals, the music, the story, the details – everything done very well. Definitely recommend watching it, if you haven't yet!

Really interesting article about how predictably people choose 4 digit codes: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-2...

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!

Hi atproto from my personal pds!

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....

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) 🐝

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.

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.

What a cool (and surprisingly accurate) game… scope-creep.xyz/

Just an observation (and maybe it's just my bubble), but why are so many atproto devs also iOS/Swift devs?

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...

Easiest way to boost happiness is to inject more art into your daily life. Buy prints. Go to the theater. Install indie apps.

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.

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…

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

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:...

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/

unix philosophy based social media

A lil logo exploration in the morning ☕

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?

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!

Slowly starting to believe ATProto will be what IndieWeb hoped it could be.

Found out that dominik.social was available… …guess who now has a brand new handle on Bluesky (+ a cool "social" page) 😎 #socialweb

Reflections after my first marathon. dominikhofer.me/step-by-step #running #marathon #indieweb

Finished my first #marathon today (official chip time: 4:18:01) 🙌 I originally aimed for a sub 4h result, but hit the famous wall at around 30k. Still very happy with the result 😇

Quick question to all #activitypub and #atproto experts: Would it theoretically be possible to host a web server + database that serves both as an AP server as well as a PDS for atproto? 🤔 #fediverse #indieweb

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 → www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzL6...

Bookmarking fonts for myself and hopefully giving you some inspo. dominikhofer.me/font-discov... #design #typography #indieweb

Just discovered a great new puzzle game 🙌 I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Oct 12th 2025) in less than 15 minutes 🟩🟩🟨🟩 🟩🟠🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟩🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 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 🙃 youtu.be/QYM3TWf_G38

It's truly crazy what you can do with just CSS now 🚧 WIP 🚧

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.

This was beautiful to read: ree.bearblog.dev/11-things-i-... Discovered via sals.place/re-loving-th... #job #indieweb

🎨 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...

I need some #Laravel / #Inertia help: I have a form in an internal application where the user can submit a variable amount of images (not in a single form field but multiple isolated type="file"-inputs. What are the best practices here to avoid a huge POST request?

A recipe for a good and fulfilling life. dominikhofer.me/success-will... #quote #indieweb

Number Go Up by Zeke Faux blends investigative journalism, social commentary, and true crime to recount some of the wildest crypto frauds – a ride I partly lived through in real time. dominikhofer.me/number-go-up #book #crypto #indieweb

Cool take in James Clear's latest 3-2-1 newsletter: "You can attract luck simply by telling people what you are working on." is a great way to describe the building-in-public movement 👍

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

Discovering a new but not-so-new hobby for my summer break. dominikhofer.me/hello-again-... #code #swiftui #learning #ai #indieweb

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? #iosdev #swiftui #buildinpublic

Always cool to see people build tools that use the URL for state in a clever way 👇

excited to share distill with more people! 🌸