Angelo Stavrow

Montrealer, husband, cat dad. EM at @wavehq and founder @droppedbitshq. Your biggest fan.

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Continuing on my quest to move my old blog to https://t.co/zlwvyM43A1, I’ve pinned a page describing a social media “policy” of sorts. https://t.co/shzR8SprYl

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It’s coming along nicely, actually—thanks for asking

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Just checking in.

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free growth strategy:

1. keep improving little by little
2. stay 100% user-supported
3. watch VC-backed companies gradually destroy their product and alienate their users

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Support indie developers.

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My inner child is my spirit animal.

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If you want to make hardware less reliable, add software.
If you want to make software less reliable, add AI.

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Folks that carry little notebooks to jot notes instead of using your phone, I’m curious: where do y’all carry your stuff? I typically try to carry as little as possible, but between wallet, glasses, keys, phone… where do I put the notebook & pen?

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Happy #Caturday

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I am also working on the spiritual successor (can apps have spirits?) to Thought Detox. More to come on that, but I'll be digging into all of this a bit more in this week's newsletter.

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Glitch project hosting was shut down on July 8th, which made me pretty sad. It tried so hard to bring back the best era of the web: a time where things were weird, where they were fun, where you could right-click > View Source in your browser and learn.

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I got to talk about it, along with other self-care/mental-health apps, with Anil Dash on the Function podcast a few years back. The site is gone, but thanks to the open nature of podcasts, you can still find it online:

https://t.co/umRsMEhW3z

https://t.co/nlW22OiASE

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Not sure who needs to hear this, but:

The half-day you spend closing a ticket almost certainly won’t matter in ten years, but the half-day you spend working on career development absolutely can.

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Me: Icon Composer looks fun! This should simplify a lot of things. Let’s build something!

Apple: okay, but don’t expect it to work with our CI/CD pipelines!

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This was supposed to be a maybe-too-subtle jab at how we’ve lost all of the delight and value of the open web, and every single reply I got pointed to using AI to get what I’m looking for.

I think this is Actually Very Interesting.™️

https://t.co/h7cdS5BTGF

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I want a search engine where I can say, "forget product pages and news sources, prioritize results from personal blogs and my social networks" when I search for something like, "how stable is the macOS 26 beta"?

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I want a search engine where I can say, "forget product pages and news sources, prioritize results from personal blogs and my social networks" when I search for something like, "how stable is the macOS 26 beta"?

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My intuition says “no,” but my impostor syndrome says “shut up, intuition.”

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Been trying to get to a point where I can run 5K, twice a week, using a training program from the NHS. Today's run was tough — lousy sleep and too much time away from running had me pooped by the halfway point.

Next run will be better!

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It’s July 2nd, which means we’ve reached the halfway point of 2025.

😬

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I would love to see Markdown support in Apple Notes.