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.
Latest Posts
Part 2 of my series on the book “The Art of Spending Money” by Morgan Housel. One of the main theses of the book is the following: There are two ways to use money. You can use it as a tool to improve your life. Or you can make it the...
“Writing online” can mean many different things. A social media post, a forum entry, an essay, a poem – you name it. But my favorite format remains the short blogpost. A couple of paragraphs, talking about one experience, one idea, one...
This is an observation I regularly have during everyday life. Some days feel like I have all the time in the world. I manage what I set out to do, I move, create, read, learn. These are fulfilling days. Then, in the evening, I have this...
Part 1 of my series on the book “The Art of Spending Money” by Morgan Housel. One random fact from the book that stuck with me is this: Between the 10 richest men in the world, there are 13 divorces. Even if one has all the money in the...
It’s already past 8 pm and if I’m honest, if it weren’t for my writing PACT, I wouldn’t be writing this post. And you wouldn’t be reading it. But you still do. Because I just set a timer for 5 minutes, sat down and started writing. We...
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...