Andre V @andrepology.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I know many sites have a robots.txt that instructs them to stop, but asking it to write a web crawling program could work? Did you try that? 110
Andre V @andrepology.bsky.social · 11/10/2026What happened when you tried to yourself? Rate limiting or block? Very behind this idea, also. 100
Reposted by Andre Vadityaarpitha.bsky.social @adityaarpitha.bsky.social · 06/10/2026We're accepting applications to the EE alignment retreat! We think aligning AI can't just be a technical problem, the same way aligning a government with its citizens can't just be the constitution's job. So we start with ourselves and work outwards to community, environment and eventually tech. 131
Andre V @andrepology.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Intervention 1 and 2 are made by the “higher” self - grounded, intentional, spacious. But the “lower” self engaging in doomscrolling - contracted, unconscious, scattered - is quick to override these interventions. How can the higher self reach the lower self when it’s alive? 000
Andre V @andrepology.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Intervention 2 is the screen time widget on my Home Screen. Hypothesis: more observability over my behavior will help me manage usage by metering or pacing usage. 100
Andre V @andrepology.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Intervention 1 is an automation that keeps my phone greyscale for all except 2 hours of the day. Hypothesis is that a less stimulating screen could help me reach for it less 100
Andre V @andrepology.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Owning some shame here: despite years of meditation training and recently teaching, I still find it extremely hard to “just observe it”. I still doomscroll 2/3 hours a day, just with new language around “resistance”, “emotional discomfort” 100
Andre V @andrepology.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Thread on Sober October experiments around regulating my own phone usage. 100
Andre V @andrepology.bsky.social · 22/09/2026and the meta (c) teaching others what you wish you were taught yourself 010
Andre V @andrepology.bsky.social · 22/09/2026ie (a) you don't have to create something new or grand or world-changing, it is valuable because you value it and it speaks to you (giving permission) (b) in light of (a) we can learn to how to steer towards more fun (valuing the emotional / felt experience) 111
Andre V @andrepology.bsky.social · 22/09/2026there's shared grief here. my solace recently has been teaching design classes in the spirit of convivial tools; staying close to a student's needs when teaching them how to make "soloware", while being with their firsthand experience of creating, orienting them towards joy, curiosity and ease. 120
Reposted by Andre VMatthew D. Sacchet @matthewsacchet.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Join us this Wednesday for the 2026 Science of Advanced Meditation Conference! 111
Reposted by Andre VUrsula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026In the room heavy with life he slept. 0241
Andre V @andrepology.bsky.social · 12/09/2026also sharing my research collection on this theme, may it be of benefit! www.are.na/andre-vacha/...are.naembodied computing | Are.nacomputing with the whole body; multi-sensory I/O 110
Andre V @andrepology.bsky.social · 12/09/2026seems much more satisfying that double-tap :) the word "musicianship" comes to mind when imagining seeing advanced usage of this 110
Andre V @andrepology.bsky.social · 12/09/2026to take another frame - we want an embodied future that includes calm, but also other aspects of the human experience apprehended through the body, on experience flowing through all of it. Pointing you to @tobyshorin.bsky.social 's Body Futurism here, writing.tobyshorin.com/body-futurism/writing.tobyshorin.comBody FuturismAs society turns toward the body, a new politics of the flesh is on the brink of eruption. 010
Andre V @andrepology.bsky.social · 11/09/2026@tekhnema.bsky.social from your POV who am I to spencer saar cavanaugh? 110
Andre V @andrepology.bsky.social · 11/09/2026ie Weisser’s principles respond to ubiquity constraining attention, so the principles revolve around the concept of center <> periphery. You seem to be pointing to more than that. 110
Andre V @andrepology.bsky.social · 11/09/2026It seems like an expanded set of principles might be needed for “embodied computing” that include and extend the calm principles (?) 120
Andre V @andrepology.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Curious. The first segment argues for how technology (ie computing) is causing disembodiment (“sensory deprivation”). It’s a refreshing critique that is different from what Weisser wrote about, and yet also feels mismatched with the calm principles themselves in the later segment of the talk. 121
Reposted by Andre Vgrant @grantcuster.com · 10/09/2026Working through creation and deletion on the tabletop. Two-finger tap feels a little more reliable than double-tap, and paint-select feels great. 1143
Andre V @andrepology.bsky.social · 09/09/2026double tap empty canvas spot to create a block under it, with a constraint to not overlap existing blocks? Really enjoying seeing this unfold, especially the adhoc multimodal inputtting, very embodied interaction. 110
Reposted by Andre VUrsula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Freedom 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. 04220
Andre V @andrepology.bsky.social · 13/08/2026The “immediate-to-handedness” came from indexing all saved blocks locally with @jazz.tools 130
Andre V @andrepology.bsky.social · 13/08/2026I made a “tactile” are.na client last year to support my design research that has these properties that may be useful. Its core interaction was that you could right click any piece of media (self-authored or connected) and see its connections to other channels, m.youtube.com/watch?v=jaeC...m.youtube.comcantos advent of jazz previewYouTube video by Andre Vacha 130
Andre V @andrepology.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Some examples: - how might I see iteration and feedback as the practice of improving my ability to take the best guess? - are you confusing activity with progress? (here, listen to your gut) - what was recently subtracted rather than added in service of clarity? 160
Andre V @andrepology.bsky.social · 11/08/2026One way I’ve short circuited this thinking is by bringing mindfulness to design. There’s a set of questions / prompts I read to myself at the start of a work session, are.na/andre-vacha/...are.napersonal design heuristics | Are.namental moves used to cultivate self awareness in a creative practice 1100
Andre V @andrepology.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Had similar experiences, but through “chasing images”. I’d see an interaction or image of screen in my mind, and just build it, skipping the design process entirely. Have many prototypes but not that are coherent or resonant. 160
Reposted by Andre VUrsula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 09/08/2026But when a direction is chosen freely and followed wholeheartedly, it may seem that all things further the going. 04815
Reposted by Andre VMatthew D. Sacchet @matthewsacchet.bsky.social · 03/08/2026How does meditation improve mental health? The answer may lie not in a single pathway, but in coordinated changes across the brain and body. 131
Andre V @andrepology.bsky.social · 28/07/2026this is asking for subtle camera motion and parallax 211
Reposted by Andre VMatthew D. Sacchet @matthewsacchet.bsky.social · 27/07/2026There 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. 201
Reposted by Andre Vclinamenic @clinamenic.com · 23/07/2026Experimenting with new multi-layer features for Lattelier 021
Reposted by Andre VLeonardo La Terza @leonardolaterza.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Well it's over variety.com/2026/digital...variety.comNetflix in Talks to Buy Letterboxd: ReportLetterboxd has reportedly held exploratory sales talks with Netflix, Paramount, Sony Pictures and other parties. 48217
Reposted by Andre VWebDesignMuseum @webdesignmuseum.org · 06/07/2026Rockstar Games website in 2000 816140
Andre V @andrepology.bsky.social · 02/07/2026listening to new, dancier sounds by Gigi Masin open.spotify.com/track/5DKqHA...open.spotify.comGoldenGigi Masin · Movement · Song · 2026 030
Andre V @andrepology.bsky.social · 26/06/2026bold, confident storytelling coming out of my home state, Kerala, in India. letterboxd.com/film/balan-t...letterboxd.comBalan - 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. 000
Andre V @andrepology.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Not for coding specifically, but this essay by Daniel Thorson reflects on the four different relationships we might have with AI, two of which recall the ones you outlined substack.com/@dthorson/p-...substack.comThe Human Alignment ProblemWhat AI psychosis reveals about the real task of our time 050
Andre V @andrepology.bsky.social · 25/06/2026I’ve seen Qualia Research Institute (I believe) make a similar map along valence and arousal axes, but also draw the possible state changes between states (eg happy -> joyful -> ecstatic). It produced a beautiful image. are.na/block/47301048are.na5_clusters_oval_curved_1-1 | Are.na 020
Andre V @andrepology.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Another projection technique that comes to mind: are.na/block/38572576are.naiSphere: Focus+Context Sphere Visualization for Interactive Large Graph Exploration - YouTube | Are.naiSphere: Focus+Context Sphere Visualization for Interactive Large Graph Explorat…act: Interactive exploration plays a critical role in large graph visualization. 130
Andre V @andrepology.bsky.social · 25/06/2026What if you could zoom into a continent to reveal not a flattened map but another nested sphere? It could be a way of navigating levels in a hierarchy of clusters … 140
Reposted by Andre VSaleh @mskayyali.com · 21/06/2026New video on Interface Studies: what happens when software borrows a word from a different world and what makes an interface “social”? youtu.be/j7xidb5fK8c?...youtu.beWhen Software Took the Word 'Social'YouTube video by Interface Studies 093
Andre V @andrepology.bsky.social · 21/06/2026Did you look into multimodal embedding models in the CLIP family? Quantized versions are small enough to run locally, so we can do away with the image captioning service. Nearly done with a prototype for bookmarks -> feed, excited to share soon. 110
Andre V @andrepology.bsky.social · 17/06/2026so i'm exploring ways to toggle between opting-in / opting-out of imposed structure, while defaulting to opting-in. 020
Andre V @andrepology.bsky.social · 17/06/2026What I've learned about designing systems that support intentionality/slowness like this is that you have to adopt a stance, or "posture" when using and designing it. If you break that stance, choices can feel annoying/friction-y/cumbersome. 120
Andre V @andrepology.bsky.social · 17/06/2026"bunch of rooms with desks" feels a bit like moving between desktops, which are very loosely organized as workspaces for a project. I might enjoy the intentionality and ritual of cleaning up before assembling new context. But I'm curious if I'll get annoyed/frustrated 110
Andre V @andrepology.bsky.social · 17/06/2026partially - I think I also want a "planner" or task list to replace my home screen, with tasks/routines/events associated with apps. bsky.app/profile/andr... I saw from your video that we're on the same trail - you putting the active task up in the window header is a great ideabsky.appAndre Vacha (@andrepology.bsky.social)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 fill... 000