Dominik Hofer
Dominik Hofer
Dominik Hofer
I’m an early 20s guy from Switzerland. So naturally, I’m still trying to find my place in the world. Figuring out who I am and what I want to do. And this website serves as a time capsule for preserving and documenting this project we call personal life.
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This weekend, I finished reading “The Art of Spending Money” by Morgan Housel. If that name rings a bell, it’s probably because of his mega-bestseller “The Psychology of Money” from a few years back. He also writes a blog well worth...
For the longest time, I was an article hoarder and jumped from one read-later app to another. But most of the time, it stopped at the hoarding part and never got to the reading part. Until I found out from Marcel that there is a superior...
In the hectic world that software development seemingly has become, reading “The Joy of Building Slow” by Andy from !Boring1 felt like a breath of fresh air. And it deeply resonated with me. The current zeitgeist (at least according to...
Back when I first started designing and coding things for the web, one of my favorite channels was the one from a designer named Mackenzie Child. In hindsight, one of his videos had a huge impact on me. Despite it being a simple video...
It’s been almost two years since launching this blog. Back then, I used to write very frequently on here1. But since then, that habit of writing daily has faded quite a bit. And especially lately, my brain felt very scattered across...
Although the occasion is very devastating, I still found the quote below worth sharing. For context, the whole interview revolves around uncertainty in life and how to cope with it from a philosophical angle. Philosopher Wilhelm Schmid...
Recently, I listened to this great interview with the creator of Claude Code, Boris Cherny: If you don’t know, Claude Code is currently widely considered the gold standard when it comes to agentic engineering. So his words carry a lot of...
Ok, hear me out here. Two days ago, I posted this note: With the exams finished and my new personal website out in the world, it's time to dive into the world of iOS development again 🥳 I will talk more about the app in the next couple...
Last Sunday, approximately 1.5 years after its launch, my old website got retired1, and this new one got published. Maybe you’ve seen it already these past couple of days – if not, then welcome! In this post, I want to give you a glimpse...
If I had to choose one direction, that I could push the IndieWeb towards for the next couple of years, it would be the social route. Just having a personal website, which already makes you part of the movement, can be incredibly lonely...
It’s the beginning of December again, which means Spotify Wrapped has just dropped. Like last year, I want to share mine here and encourage you to do the same, so we can all discover some great music :) This year, Spotify used a...
From “I love calculator” by Andrej Karpathy, founding member of OpenAI: The calculator is incredible. […] To perform its function it only requires light (thanks to its tiny solar panel on the front) […]. If you traveled back in time with...
Yesterday, I participated at the Lausanne Marathon – my first-ever race at that distance. Now, on the day after the big event, I want to recap a bit and write about my experience. For future me and maybe for you as well, if you’re...
I’m currently on and off designing and building v2 of this website. Along the way, I’ve been looking for some fonts that I could use for my new branding. As a future reference for me and hopefully as inspiration for you, I wanted to...
I quite like this definition of success by Will Ahmed, the founder of Whoop: Success is being excited to go to work and being excited to come home. Sounds like the recipe for a good and fulfilling life. Discovered via Aaron Francis’...