Angelo Stavrow

Continuing on my quest to move my old blog to Write.as, I’ve pinned a page describing a social media “policy” of sorts. angelostavrow.blog/social

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

Support indie developers.

My inner child is my spirit animal.

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

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?

Happy #Caturday

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. Sign up for it here: angelostavrow.com

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: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/we-… open.spotify.com/episode/3Tw1fl…

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.

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.

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!

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.™️ twitter.com/AngeloStavrow/…

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"?

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

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!

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

I would love to see Markdown support in Apple Notes.

Shopping for a 27”, 4K monitor that will deliver power to my MacBook Pro over USB-C. Good color reproduction is also high on my list. Any suggestions?

What decade had the best music, and why was it the 1990s?