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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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...
I don't think writing every day will change your life... ...I know it will. — Peter Suhm Occasionally, you stumble upon a piece of content, that flips a switch in your brain. It may not be life-changing per se, but right at that moment,...
Every once in a while, I get this sudden urge to try to understand the Fediverse better. Like on a technical level. I already know quite a bit about it since I first joined Mastodon, but still feel like there are quite a few pieces of...
Hi and welcome back to Tiny Sparks! How time flies… We’re already one third into August. Which also means that my first day of uni is getting closer and closer (if you don’t know already, I’m going to study Computer Science as my major...
Hi Hidden Person, I discovered your blogpost via a reply by Robert. It popped up in my RSS feed and sounded interesting. I read through his post and thought, “let’s check out this new blog, and who the person behind it is.” You write...
We’ve arrived at the next continent on my quest to learn all the countries in the world, so I can complete the “Countries of the World”-quiz on Jetpunk: Asia. Now, I didn’t really learn all the Asian countries as rigorously as the ones...
Although it’s just a short one, Alexandra’s post about reading (or not reading) books resonated with me for two reasons. First and foremost, this is very relatable: So why have I got over 50 books sat on the coffee table gathering dust....
Goededag and welcome to the third issue of the Tiny Sparks newsletter! If you just stumbled upon that greeting, it means “good day” in Flemish (a Dutch dialect spoken in a region of Belgium). You’ll find out very soon why I choose that...
If you’re a regular visitor of my /photos page, you might have noticed that I uploaded some new photos on there. The past week, I was in Belgium, together with my girlfriend. We had an Airbnb in the northern part of Ghent, but since...
Bonjour and welcome to the second issue of the Tiny Sparks newsletter! Hope you all are doing well! I was unfortunately sick last week, so I didn’t get to participate in the race I mentioned in the past newsletter. Luckily, I’m fine now...
Inspired by my girlfriend and my brother, who are both somewhat huge geography buffs, I’ve decided to challenge myself to learn all the countries in the world. I would say I already have decent geography knowledge, but compared to them,...
I get quite irritated by people who seem to make it their life's goal to bash AI. — Yordi in AI Critics: You're Using It Wrong This morning, I read this post by Yordi, and I’m glad I’m not the only one who feels that way. While when I...