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
A response to Blog like a Painter by Robert Birming. Robert struck a nerve with one of his latest meta blog posts about blogging. Not only with me, but also a few other people within my Mastodon bubble (namely Jedda and Yordi). In his...
Hi and welcome back to Tiny Sparks! If you are a regular visitor of my website, you might have noticed that my posting frequency has gone down quite a bit these past few weeks. The reason is pretty simply a lack of time. As I’ve already...
September has been quite a busy month for me. You might have noticed that I started to post a little less frequently on this blog, which has a very specific reason: Uni has started, and I am now trying to juggle everything from learning,...
Hi and welcome back to Tiny Sparks! Phew, what a week this has been. Uni has officially started for me, which ultimately meant one thing: My schedule is way more packed now than a couple of weeks ago. It’s not really stressing me out,...
When I really like an artist, I usually look up their live performances on YouTube. And occasionally, I stumble upon some real gems. The kind of videos I can watch as many times as I want, and I still get goosebumps. Today, I want to...
Today is Friday, September 13th, and it’s Orientation Day for new bachelor students at Uni Bern. Which also means that my lectures (and my university career as a whole) start in just three days, on Monday. I wanted to quickly write about...
I just came back from a 15k run, and I feel great. I didn’t feel great before the run, though. Having to run 15 kilometers on a Saturday morning doesn’t sound like a lot of fun. But luckily, this feeling only lasts for the first few...
Hi and welcome back to Tiny Sparks! Every so often, you do something and then immediately afterward know that it was the wrong decision. Robert recently wrote about this feeling as well. And that’s how I felt about my newsletter-move to...
YouTube recommended me this video by Dan Go: An interesting piece in general, but two things really stuck with me: Your brain is a piece of software. Consistently upgrade it. Your body is a piece of hardware. Consistently upgrade it....
In the “But, how do I actually…” series, I try to explain how to do computer things in a way that previous me would have appreciated (and future me can reference). This is a written checklist for me, borrowed and slightly adapted for my...
Recently, I wrote about how I write daily. In this post, I want to take a step back: Why write in the first place? If you’re not a writer (yet), it might inspire you to start the practice as well. And if you are one already, ask...
With the use of the WebFinger protocol, you can make your Mastodon account discoverable via your own domain. Without hosting a separate Mastodon instance. For example, my Mastodon account is dominik@mastodon.design. But when you search...
Ciao and welcome back to Tiny Sparks! You might have already recognized that something looks different this time. Tiny Sparks doesn’t run on Substack anymore and is now self-hosted on WordPress! There are a couple of reasons for this...
You know about these playlists that Spotify auto-generates for you based on a mood or activity? Usually, when I go for a run and don’t want to listen to my own running playlist, I throw on one of these running mixes. They’re great. There...
Civil War is a movie that has been on my “to watch” list since it came out this spring. Unfortunately, it wasn’t available to stream anywhere here in Switzerland, so I recently took the plunge and actually bought the movie on iTunes...