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.

Devlog #002 for Morgenblau: buttondown.com/dominikhofer... If you never want to miss a future issue, you can subscribe (or follow via RSS) here: buttondown.com/dominikhofer...

A simple trick I picked up from the Runna app. https://dominikhofer.me/higher-cadence

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... #morgenblau #buildinpublic

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... #morgenblau #buildinpublic

Updated/improved the specs document. #morgenblau #buildinpublic

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. #morgenblau #buildinpublic

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 #morgenblau #buildinpublic

Against the sea of noise, slow down. Take the time you need. Find community. Learn with them. Share with others. Dream long term. Build together. Have fun. Love. Care.

Apple has started rolling out refreshed artwork across some of the movies, bundles, and TV collections featured in the iTunes Store.

> 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. #morgenblau #buildinpublic

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

You still have to think hard about what is worth building, which is a skill only a few developers have right now. The balance between product, design, and technology is there for a reason. "Purpose over volume" is my guiding principle for this 💛

Just because you can build more now, doesn’t mean you should. https://dominikhofer.me/focus-problem

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. #morgenblau #buildinpublic

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

Happy to report that we're already at the same state that the Laravel version was at before the new branch. But the app feels so much snappier, very happy with how this experiment turned out :D #morgenblau #buildinpublic

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. #morgenblau #buildinpublic

YouTube videos now also open in a clutter-free interface inside of Morgenblau. Soooo much better than the native ui 😮‍💨 #morgenblau #buildinpublic

The reader becomes usable 🥳 Extraction for feeds without embedded content also works pretty well (see second article that I open in the demo). #morgenblau #buildinpublic

Started working on the in-app reader view. #morgenblau #buildinpublic

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

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

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

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. #morgenblau #buildinpublic

stevedylan.dev/posts/wisdom... Now I want to learn more about the history of Muji 👀