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Andre V

@andrepology.bsky.social
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design technologist 🌀 curlprojects.com / communal & embodied computing, aligned recommender systems; DWeb and local first

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Andre V @andrepology.bsky.social · 6h
Thread on Sober October experiments around regulating my own phone usage.
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Matthew D. Sacchet @matthewsacchet.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Join us this Wednesday for the 2026 Science of Advanced Meditation Conference!
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
In the room heavy with life he slept.
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grant @grantcuster.com · 10/09/2026
Working through creation and deletion on the tabletop. Two-finger tap feels a little more reliable than double-tap, and paint-select feels great.
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one.
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
But when a direction is chosen freely and followed wholeheartedly, it may seem that all things further the going.
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Matthew D. Sacchet @matthewsacchet.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
How does meditation improve mental health? The answer may lie not in a single pathway, but in coordinated changes across the brain and body.
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Matthew D. Sacchet @matthewsacchet.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
There is a lot of hype around neurofeedback for meditation. Does it work? Neurofeedback is a tool for real-time monitoring and modulation of mental states using feedback from one's own neural activity.
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clinamenic @clinamenic.com · 23/07/2026
Experimenting with new multi-layer features for Lattelier
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Leonardo La Terza @leonardolaterza.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Well it's over variety.com/2026/digital...
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Netflix in Talks to Buy Letterboxd: Report
Letterboxd has reportedly held exploratory sales talks with Netflix, Paramount, Sony Pictures and other parties.
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WebDesignMuseum @webdesignmuseum.org · 06/07/2026
Rockstar Games website in 2000
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Andre V @andrepology.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
listening to new, dancier sounds by Gigi Masin open.spotify.com/track/5DKqHA...
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Gigi Masin · Movement · Song · 2026
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Andre V @andrepology.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
bold, confident storytelling coming out of my home state, Kerala, in India. letterboxd.com/film/balan-t...
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Balan - The Boy (2026)
A teenage boy searches for his missing mother following a turbulent childhood and her subsequent disappearance, exploring his search for closure and the truth about his past.
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Saleh @mskayyali.com · 21/06/2026
New video on Interface Studies: what happens when software borrows a word from a different world and what makes an interface “social”? youtu.be/j7xidb5fK8c?...
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When Software Took the Word 'Social'
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Andre V @andrepology.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
sketch of a launcher for paper-like devices I was making last year. Key concepts: - day planner as home screen, - call with AI for a daily planning ritual + support on activity tracking & form filling - routines, tasks and projects are associated with apps
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Matthew D. Sacchet @matthewsacchet.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Bodily awareness during advanced meditation: what happens and how should we study it? Announcing our new preprint: "Bodily Awareness in Advanced Meditation: A Three-Level Model of Interoceptive, Schematic, and Pacificatory Changes," now available on PsyArXiv. ⤵️
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Jay Castello 🌻 @jaymcastello.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
for the best part of this year, I've been speaking to former Maxis developers to put together this: a near-6000 word oral history of Spore 🦠 www.designroom.site/spore-an-ora...
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Spore: An oral history
A wild bet in development for the better part of a decade, Spore reached for the stars — and, at times, got there. We recently spoke to eight team members, including chief designer Will Wright, to loo...
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Legacy Update @legacyupdate.net · 14/06/2026
Is the Microsoft Office Ribbon causing people to have fewer children? A provocative new working paper explores the persistent drop in birth rates since Office 2007 was introduced nearly two decades ago.
The top-left corner of Microsoft Word 2007, showing the ribbon.
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Andre V @andrepology.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Favorite new YouTube channel alternates between validating and criticizing my best ideas. On software as place: m.youtube.com/watch?v=tBE2...
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What Makes Software a "Place"?
YouTube video by Interface Studies
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Andre V @andrepology.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Collecting diagrams to sensemake relationships, different relationship patterns and fields with @clinamenic.com What’s been useful to you? are.na/block/46566804
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Relationship Anarchy Smorgasbord | Are.na
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Andre V @andrepology.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Has anyone tried to migrate or sync their blocks and channels from are.na to @semble.so ?
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Andre V @andrepology.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
@clinamenic.com uses obsidian as life OS. It runs everything from his journal, finances and website, to an extensive zettlekasten, all interlinked, with a patchwork of custom plugins that keep the system running smoothly. there will be many things to learn and discover here.
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clinamenic @clinamenic.com · 28/04/2026
Just launched the paid tier of my substack, Solo Salon, for instructional content on second brains and personal knowledge management! This first one details some of the initial challenges of creating a multi-modal framework for second brains. solosalon.substack.com/p/notes-on-e...
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Notes on Experimental Zettelkasten Methodology
Some coverage of the various challenges faced in the construction of a bespoke multi-purpose zettelkasten.
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Andre V @andrepology.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
mindbody, with material
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Andre V @andrepology.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
nervous system as bonsai tree virtue as ties that bend us into shapes that we can eventually let go of, because we can hold our own shape
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Andre V @andrepology.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
time passing in pond
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Andre V @andrepology.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
amidst spaces for work and spaces for distraction, enter a space for contemplation
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Andre V @andrepology.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
What does it mean to “grow the self” to you? What frameworks come to mind? An invitation to add them here www.are.na/andre-vacha/...
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grow the Self | Are.na
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Andre V @andrepology.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
account cards with a sense of physicality from Horizon cc @playbalatro.com
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Andre V @andrepology.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
new practice of sketching app concepts through state machines, which can then translate to be translated to linear flows. helps me zoom out and see the whole system and the experience we derive from it
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Andre V @andrepology.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
desktop magnet poetry
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Andre V @andrepology.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
thoughts are just ripples on the surface of consciousness
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Andre V @andrepology.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
less "tools to use" and more "places to be"
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Andre V @andrepology.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
life is peaceful. true friends, hot girlfriend, a diminishing sense of self
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Andre V @andrepology.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Core experience Horizon (wip @bsky.app client by @curlprojects.bsky.social ) is designed to support is "Discovery", which is a bit of a loaded term.
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Andre V @andrepology.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
@jazz.tools has made working on this an absolute delight. As a designer who spends months working off of local JSON to put off backend wiring ... Jazz lets me do just that. Treat data as state, and it handles sync and storage and whatnot. Amazing!
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Andre V @andrepology.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
An input bar that understands its context of use, and adapts to it, Journal Entry <-> Search <-> Public Post. A pattern to drastically simplify interactions with our @bsky.app client, Horizon.
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Andre V @andrepology.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Leeks are like "sweet spring onions" #buildinpublic
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Andre V @andrepology.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
knock knock!
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