Since roughly // broadly 2020, I’ve been running a solo-powered minor empire. I have no employees, and my only office is my home office…
A more social IndieWeb | Dominik Hofer
My entry for the IndieWeb Carnival of December 2025 about the IndieWeb in 2030.
Now Hiring: Senior Open Source Maintainer
A rare opportunity to make a real impact in a fast-paced, high-visibility role.
CodePen 2.0
Noting perhaps my largest personal career accomplishment, which is launching CodePen 2.0. Far more work, believe it or not, than the entire creation of the original CodePen. This isn’t the pl…
“You Had One Job”: Why Twenty Years of DevOps Has Failed to Do it
Let’s start with a question. What is DevOps all about?
Vibe Maintainer
Some attendees at an AI Tinkerers meetup in early Feb were asking me what it’s like to be the maintainer of a big OSS project where the…
Peter Van Hardenberg - Local First: the secret master plan
How creatives and devs can all finally escape the control of the silicon valley of evil and make a trillion dollars · Multi-hyphenate
ft. ATprotocol (the remix)
nothin' but blue skies from now on
Some of you know that I work part-time with the team at Graze Social. It seems gauche to talk about a day job in your passion project newsletter, but in this...
SkySpace: A Place For Friends (Who Miss 2005)
Check out your profile on SkySpace, a nostalgic way to explore Bluesky. Who will you put in your Top 8?
Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud
A new generation of collaborative software that allows users to retain ownership of their data.
Is Your Social Life Missing Something? This Is For You.
Podcast Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 02/03/2026 · 1h 31m
Reclaiming my digital identity — Open Indie
This post is the preamble of a 5-part series called The Great Untangling. The following four posts have already been published and are li...
Ewan's Corner
A personal space where I share my thoughts on coding, technology, and life.
Indie Thinkers
A curated collection of quotes from the brightest minds on the internet.
How creatives and devs can all finally escape the control of the silicon valley of evil and make a trillion dollars - Multi-hyphenate
ft. ATprotocol (the remix)