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Angelo Stavrow

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Montrealer, husband, cat dad. EM at Wave and founder @droppedbits.com. Your biggest fan. angelo.land

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Angelo Stavrow @angelostavrow.com · 30/06/2026
It’s coming along nicely, actually—thanks for asking
Apple Watch with a silver aluminum case and a slate blue sport band, set against a bright green background. The screen displays a green app icon featuring a simple smiling face with a checkmark, above the text "How's it going?" and the label "Notification."
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Angelo Stavrow @angelostavrow.com · 21/04/2026
Just checking in.
A notification on a phone lock screen with the title, “How’s it going?” and a subtitle, “A quick moment to check in with yourself.” The app icon features a stylized smiling face where one eye appears to be winking, but the shape of the eye is a checkmark.
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Angelo Stavrow @angelostavrow.com · 02/03/2026
Support indie developers.
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Someone made an app to detect nearby smart glasses
Developer Yves Jeanrenaud has developed an app that allows you to detect if someone is wearing smart glasses nearby.
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Angelo Stavrow @angelostavrow.com · 15/01/2026
My inner child is my spirit animal.
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Angelo Stavrow @angelostavrow.com · 14/01/2026
If you want to make hardware less reliable, add software. If you want to make software less reliable, add AI.
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Angelo Stavrow @angelostavrow.com · 17/12/2025
I need a “2025 Wrapped” for all the “2025 Wrapped” emails and app notifications I’ve gotten in the last week.
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Angelo Stavrow @angelostavrow.com · 06/10/2025
Removed all social media —except for LinkedIn, which I use as a tool for work— from my phone. Instead, I’ll check in a once or twice a day from a desktop browser.
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Angelo Stavrow @angelostavrow.com · 20/09/2025
Xcode 27 wishlist: Adaptive app icon for internal TestFlight builds where the longer it’s been since you installed it, the more transparent it gets, fading into nothingness like my hopes for shipping a new app by year end
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Angelo Stavrow @angelostavrow.com · 29/08/2025
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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Angelo Stavrow @angelostavrow.com · 16/08/2025
Happy #Caturday
This photo features a striking black and white long-haired cat sitting elegantly inside a wooden tray. The cat has a fluffy, well-groomed coat with predominantly white fur on its chest and front legs, contrasting beautifully with its black fur on the face, back, and sides. The cat's expressive green eyes are wide open, giving it a curious and attentive look. Its black face markings include a distinctive black patch around the nose and mouth. The tray, made of light-coloured wood with cut-out handles, rests on a soft surface, possibly a couch or table. In the background, a modern living room is visible, featuring a black leather sofa adorned with a pillow and a television screen displaying soft, colourful visuals. The lighting is natural and soft, highlighting the cat's fluffy fur and serene posture, creating a cozy, homey atmosphere.
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Angelo Stavrow @angelostavrow.com · 07/08/2025
Without downloading any new pics, where are you mentally?
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Angelo Stavrow @angelostavrow.com · 24/07/2025
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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Angelo Stavrow @angelostavrow.com · 17/07/2025
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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Angelo Stavrow @angelostavrow.com · 11/07/2025
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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Angelo Stavrow @angelostavrow.com · 07/07/2025
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.™️ Angelo Stavrow (@angelostavrow.com) bsky.app/profile/did:...
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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…
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Angelo Stavrow @angelostavrow.com · 05/07/2025
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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Angelo Stavrow @angelostavrow.com · 03/07/2025
My intuition says “no,” but my impostor syndrome says “shut up, intuition.”
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Angelo Stavrow @angelostavrow.com · 02/07/2025
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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Angelo Stavrow @angelostavrow.com · 02/07/2025
It’s July 2nd, which means we’ve reached the halfway point of 2025. 😬
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Angelo Stavrow @angelostavrow.com · 18/05/2025
Oops, bought (yet another) domain for a new idea. 😬
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Angelo Stavrow @angelostavrow.com · 18/05/2025
Ah yes, our household’s Victoria Day weekend ritual of finally taking down the Christmas lights
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Angelo Stavrow @angelostavrow.com · 10/05/2025
Adding cherry tomatoes to a salad without cutting them in half for easy forking is borderline sociopathic
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Angelo Stavrow @angelostavrow.com · 23/04/2025
Do you all have a Swift package for text editing that you’d recommend for a writing-focused SwiftUI app? Don’t really need things like multi-cursor support or syntax highlighting (except maybe for Markdown?), mostly looking for something performant and, ideally, extensible.
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Angelo Stavrow @angelostavrow.com · 19/04/2025
Merlin’s on the hunt #caturday
A black and white cat with bright green eyes peeks over the edge of a beige cushion. Behind the cat is a grey couch with a black and white patterned pillow. The setting appears cozy with wooden flooring in the background.
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potch @potch.me · 10/04/2025
it's 4/10 happy HTTP Gone Day
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Angelo Stavrow @angelostavrow.com · 07/04/2025
If you’re a content creator, does knowing that bots are crawling your work to train LLMs make you feel more likely or less likely to put a wall (e.g. subscriber-only content, like newsletters or whatevs) between your work and the open web?
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Rob Fahrni @fahrni.me · 04/04/2025
Jimmy by Tool
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Marc Palmer @marcpalmer.net · 04/04/2025
Runaway by Voyager!
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Matt Massicotte @massicotte.org · 04/04/2025
Hollywood Baby by 100 Gecs
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Angelo Stavrow @angelostavrow.com · 04/04/2025
In an attempt to better curate what I listen to (because fuck algorithms), share one song you love and that you feel more people should know!
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Angelo Stavrow @angelostavrow.com · 03/04/2025
Working on a thinkpiece called, “The Enshittification Of Using The Term ‘Enshittification’”
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Angelo Stavrow @angelostavrow.com · 03/04/2025
Not-So-Wonderfully Montreal Things: felt like -2°C this morning, will feel like 16°C this afternoon. I don’t know how to dress anymore
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Angelo Stavrow @angelostavrow.com · 31/03/2025
So listen, I know there's a loneliness epidemic and I see first-hand the effects on what a life deprived of social connection does to a person on a regular basis. I'm here to tell you AI is not the answer. (Neither is social media, for that matter.)
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Angelo Stavrow @angelostavrow.com · 30/03/2025
Efficiency NECESSARILY comes at a cost to resilience. Whether you're talking about a team, a process, or a system, if it's efficient, it's fragile. If it's resilient, there's redundancy. Finding the balance for whatever problem your org is trying to solve is why they pay you the big bucks.
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Angelo Stavrow @angelostavrow.com · 29/03/2025
Siri transcriptions of French voicemails are wild, y'all.
A partial screenshot of a voicemail transcription that reads, "Not sure we see the whole does she fix it and all the pickles and I will have the food demo lesson question happy new. I got there like psycho cat there like this. I miss you..."
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Angelo Stavrow @angelostavrow.com · 28/03/2025
One of those Wonderfully Montreal Things™️ is hearing folks effortlessly go from English to French and back to English without skipping a beat. Love it.
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Angelo Stavrow @angelostavrow.com · 27/03/2025
Hey, iOS devs — what are your favourite examples of App Store screenshots done well? (In other words, in line with App Review guidelines, but also more than just straight screenshots with a headline.)
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Angelo Stavrow @angelostavrow.com · 16/03/2025
Just because you tell me to "reply with Unsubscribe" if I don't want your continued unsolicited business requests doesn't mean I'm not sending you to spam after signing you up to a selection of notoriously obnoxious e-tailer newsletters, actually
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Angelo Stavrow @angelostavrow.com · 01/03/2025
Disney+ has been unavailable for me since at least yesterday afternoon — anyone else?
A screenshot of the Disney+ app with a message indicating that you can’t sign up in-app, and a prominent “Log Out” button. No access to content is available.
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Angelo Stavrow @angelostavrow.com · 19/02/2025
Tzatziki Tuesday 🇬🇷
A pork gyro pita is wrapped in paper on a plate. It’s filled with tomato, red onion, and a generous dollop of tzatziki.
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Angelo Stavrow @angelostavrow.com · 17/02/2025
After being on hiatus for a few weeks, The Angelo Report is back with a (very short) essay.
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Issue 26: Second Birth
Humans experience two births: the first, where one’s body is expelled from their mother’s birth canal, and the second, where one’s head is expelled from one’s own ass.
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Angelo Stavrow @angelostavrow.com · 10/02/2025
Every @buttondown.com account —even the free ones— now gets access to the API? It might be time to dust off my work on Atelier (See: atelier.software)
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Atelier for Buttondown
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Angelo Stavrow @angelostavrow.com · 29/01/2025
Grapefruit is the worst fruit and I will brook no quarrel on the topic.
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Angelo Stavrow @angelostavrow.com · 29/01/2025
Off to Toronto for a work event. My train is delayed by about 15-20 minutes, but it’s still so much better than flying.
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Angelo Stavrow @angelostavrow.com · 24/01/2025
Hacking Subaru: tracking and controlling cars via the STARLINK Admin Panel /me wraps his Impreza in tinfoil samcurry.net/hacking-s…
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Angelo Stavrow @angelostavrow.com · 05/01/2025
Having recently learned the term “techo kaigi” —a retrospective on the planners one uses— I wrote a bit about my own Life Management System, and what it looks like for 2025:
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Issue 24: 2025 Techo Kaigi
Issue 24: 2025 Techo Kaigi In her last newsletter, friend and stationery lover vrk mentioned a concept I’d (somehow) never heard of: techo kaigi. The idea is...
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Angelo Stavrow @angelostavrow.com · 02/01/2025
(This is a test.)
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Angelo Stavrow @angelostavrow.com · 30/12/2024
Sometimes, there are signs. (TW: death)
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Issue 23: Signs
Sometimes, there are signs. A month and a half back. My parents are getting on in age, and my dad needs full-time care. My mom, fiercely stubborn about being...
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Angelo Stavrow @angelostavrow.com · 09/12/2024
The pinnacle of quiet luxury is a soft-close toilet seat.
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Angelo Stavrow @angelostavrow.com · 08/12/2024
The Angelo Report is out! This week: change is hard.
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