iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Rahel Freiburghaus @rfrbrghs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

What is direct democracy, essentially? For us in Switzerland, it means very frequent voting: ≈9 federal ballot measures per year, plus a large volume of cantonal and local votes. But it also means a practical challenge: who can open the voting envelope without tearing it apart? Always a tricky one

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Dominik Hofer @dominikhofer.me · 18/09/2026

Back to @dominikhofer.me 🪄 dominik.social was a cool handle but it felt a bit weird in other ATProto contexts like on Tangled plus it was disconnected from my personal website.

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hailey @hailey.at · 18/09/2026

this is basically why you haven’t seen anything new come out. the companies and people who are already capable of shipping are still doing so at faster rates, while most projects get abandoned

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Dominik Hofer @dominikhofer.me · 17/09/2026

I increasingly think that little games like this and @pudding.cool style visual essays are the best ways of informing the public about issues in a way that doesn't feel abstract anymore. The board game “Daybreak” also does this very well regarding climate change.

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danielroe @danielroe.dev · 14/09/2026

🙋‍♂️ ever wanted to build something without needing to configure a db, auth, file storage or a cms? it turns out you already have all four if you have a bluesky account 👉 airspace is a typed client for it

getair.space

airspace

The database you already have.

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Mikkel Malmberg @mikker.dev · 11/08/2026

You’re not overthinking, you’re underdoing

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spencer chang @spencer.place · 06/08/2026

riding the internet subway to recent links people have visited..

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dame @dame.is · 30/07/2026

hard pill to swallow for atproto developers/creators: 99% of potential users either do not care about, value, understand, or want to “own their own data” i see so many apps/projects lead with this “value prop”, but it’s not an important or meaningful consideration for most people

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Dominik Hofer @dominikhofer.me · 23/07/2026

Worked a bit more on the art direction/branding for @morgen.blue. I really like this “dreamy” look I ended up with and even built myself a little tool where I can generate more similar background visuals like these. #buildinpublic

Read what you curate. Not what an algorithm serves.

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Dominik Hofer @dominikhofer.me · 20/07/2026

As always, it’s the simplest productivity techniques that work the best. dominikhofer.me/ticking-boxes

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Dominik Hofer @dominikhofer.me · 17/07/2026

I really like how @morgen.blue’s ”discover” page is coming together. Especially the expand interaction 🪄 #buildinpublic

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Dominik Hofer @dominikhofer.me · 09/07/2026

A stack of emails and text messages and one question: Who committed the murder and why? dominikhofer.me/the-appeal

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Andy Allen @andy.works · 29/06/2026

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.

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Sam Littlefair @littlefair.ca · 24/06/2026

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 🛜.

The alchemical symbol for air, a triangle pointing up crossed by a horizontal line.

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hailey @hailey.at · 20/06/2026

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.

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Dominik Hofer @dominikhofer.me · 19/06/2026

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.

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dan @danabra.mov · 19/06/2026

"but where are all the bluesky instances?" i've heard this so many times that i wrote an explainer

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There Are No Instances in atproto — overreacted

Like RSS and Google Reader.

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Dominik Hofer @dominikhofer.me · 15/06/2026

Which world cup countries would qualify for the knock-out stages based on their per-capita CO2 emissions. via @republik.ch

Satirical infographic titled "Challenge-Accepted-WM 2026 — Wenn die Klimabilanz entscheiden würde…" ("If the climate footprint decided…"), showing a fictional 2026 World Cup group stage where teams are ranked by per-capita CO₂ emissions (tonnes per year) instead of match results — lower emissions rank higher and earn more points. Twelve groups (A–L) each list four nations with their emissions value and points. Group winners include Mexico (4.35), Bosnia-Herzegovina (6.14), Haiti (0.25), Paraguay (1.92), Ivory Coast (0.57), Tunisia (2.47), Egypt (2.21), Cape Verde (1.13), Senegal (1.05), Jordan (2.78), DR Congo (0.05), and Ghana (0.78). High-emission nations finish last in their groups, such as Qatar (27.60), Saudi Arabia (19.66), Belgium (16.79), USA (15.81), South Korea (13.70), and Curaçao (12.34).

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dad (aka miguel) @aka.dad · 11/06/2026

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.

atproto.md

atproto.md — AT Protocol data as Markdown

A read-only, markdown-first API for the AT Protocol. Fetch any repo, collection, or record from any PDS as clean Markdown, discover every repo using a lexicon, and explore backlinks. No auth, no API k...

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Dominik Hofer @dominikhofer.me · 07/06/2026

Folded my first #origami crane today because I needed a break from studying 😶‍🌫️ Let's hope it brings me luck for the exams :)

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Robert Birming @birming.com · 06/06/2026

I'm look forward to see what @dominik.social got cooking with morgen.blue

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pilcrow @pilcrowonpaper.com · 03/06/2026

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

Authentication methods
Sessions
Auth sessions
Email addresses
Passwords
Browser client-side storage
Cross-site request forgery (CSRF)
Argon2
Bcrypt
Email address verification codes
Email code authentication
Passkeys
Web Authentication API (WebAuthn)
WebAuthn authenticator data
WebAuthn CBOR encoding
WebAuthn client data
Passkey registration
Passkey authentication
Elliptic Curve Digitial Signature Algorithm (ECDSA)
RSA signature scheme
Edwards Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (EdDSA)

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spencer chang @spencer.place · 02/06/2026

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

hah.spencer.place

HAH — social media art experiments

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Dominik Hofer @dominikhofer.me · 02/06/2026

Not surprised since I have to get up early every day anyways to walk my dog ^^ cronotype.vercel.app/hfrdmnk

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@hfrdmnk · Cronotype

View @hfrdmnk's commit-time rhythm.

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Lucas ✦ @lucas.love · 01/06/2026

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...

videos.cdn.lucas-fischer.com

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Dominik Hofer @dominikhofer.me · 30/05/2026

I always imagine a little gopher inside the web server frantically hitting a red "danger" button when reading sentences like this 😂 #golang

"In this scenario, Go’s servemux considers the patterns to be in conflict, and will panic at runtime when initializing the routes."

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Dominik Hofer @dominikhofer.me · 30/05/2026

Starting to dive into @ajmedwards.bsky.social's "Let's Go" book, wish me luck 🤞 #golang

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Dominik Hofer @dominikhofer.me · 27/05/2026

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 :)

dominikhofer.me

A new commit(ment) | Dominik Hofer

I’m starting another 30-day PACT.

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Dominik Hofer @dominikhofer.me · 26/05/2026

The source detail page is also coming along nicely. #morgenblau #buildinpublic

Screenshot of an RSS reader showing the source page for "Dominik Hofer | Posts" from dominikhofer.me. Stats display weekly frequency, last post 1 day ago, 112 total posts. A list of recent posts is visible: "Higher cadence," "It's a focus problem," "The inefficient way," "A new commit(ment)," and "30 days of writing."

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Dominik Hofer @dominikhofer.me · 25/05/2026

Saving posts in Morgenblau has landed, which also means that a second lexicon is now officially in use. #morgenblau #buildinpublic

PDSls showing the collections on dominik.social: a wide spread of ATProto lexicons across nine namespaces, with blue.morgen.feed.save and blue.morgen.feed.subscription highlighted.

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Dominik Hofer @dominikhofer.me · 25/05/2026

TIL that 3D pixels are called voxels.

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Dominik Hofer @dominikhofer.me · 25/05/2026

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...

buttondown.com

Doing the ground work

Morgenblau Devlog #002

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Dominik Hofer @dominikhofer.me · 24/05/2026

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

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Dominik Hofer @dominikhofer.me · 24/05/2026

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

Eurosky.social OAuth authorization screen. Left column: heading "Authorize" with subtitle "Grant access to your @dominik.social account." Right column lists two items: "An application on your
device wants to access your @dominik.social account," and "Morgenblau: Manage your Morgenblau subscriptions, saves, shares, and follows." Two buttons at the bottom right, "Deny access" and a
blue "Authorize."

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Dominik Hofer @dominikhofer.me · 23/05/2026

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

tangled.org

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Dominik Hofer @dominikhofer.me · 21/05/2026

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

Screenshot of the Morgenblau Sources page listing feeds like Aaron Francis, Ali Abdaal, Chris Raroque, and Kurzgesagt. Each row shows a waveform icon with a post-frequency label (Weekly, New, Irregular) and an hourglass icon with a relative timestamp of the latest post (22h ago, 1d ago, 1w ago, etc.).

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Dominik Hofer @dominikhofer.me · 20/05/2026

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

Menu of Morgenblau with four items: Discover, Sources, Library & Digest

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patak @patak.cat · 20/05/2026

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.

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Basic Apple Guy @basicappleguy.com · 19/05/2026

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

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Dominik Hofer @dominikhofer.me · 19/05/2026

> 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...

eddiedale.com

Currency conversion is never in your favor | Eddie Dale

Payment terminals, ATMs, Amazon, international transfers, currency exchange apps. Whenever you get the choice, **never agree to an automatic currency conversion**. It's called Dynamic Currency Conver...

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Dominik Hofer @dominikhofer.me · 19/05/2026

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

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