iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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 · 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

Nice! Gets me thinking, I have a passport-size Traveler’s Notebook that could probably double as something to carry my cards 🤔

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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 · 07/08/2025

Without downloading any new pics, where are you mentally?

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Angelo Stavrow @angelostavrow.com · 24/07/2025

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

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Angelo Stavrow @angelostavrow.com · 24/07/2025

I got to talk about it, along with other self-care/mental-health apps, with @anildash.com 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/w... open.spotify.com/episode/3Tw1...

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We Can't Just Log Off: Mental Health and Tech

Podcast Episode · Function with Anil Dash · 10/02/2019 · 40m

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Angelo Stavrow @angelostavrow.com · 24/07/2025

It also meant that the Thought Detox web app went away. Thankfully, my projects have been exported to GitHub, so it was super simple to switch hosting over to GitHub Pages. You can now find it at web.thoughtdetox.app!

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Thought Detox on the Web

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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

/me runs around the room, arms flailing

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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 · 24/04/2025

That’s one of the packages I was looking at! Seems really great , Marcin. 🙂

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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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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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Angelo Stavrow @angelostavrow.com · 04/04/2025

JUST ONE SONG ROB (No that’s fine, Tool was/is a huge influence for me)

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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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