Angelo Stavrow

It’s coming along nicely, actually—thanks for asking

Just checking in.

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.

I need a “2025 Wrapped” for all the “2025 Wrapped” emails and app notifications I’ve gotten in the last week.

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.

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

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

Without downloading any new pics, where are you mentally?

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.™️ Angelo Stavrow (@angelostavrow.com) bsky.app/profile/did:...

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. 😬

Oops, bought (yet another) domain for a new idea. 😬

Ah yes, our household’s Victoria Day weekend ritual of finally taking down the Christmas lights

Adding cherry tomatoes to a salad without cutting them in half for easy forking is borderline sociopathic

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.

Merlin’s on the hunt #caturday

it's 4/10 happy HTTP Gone Day

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?

Jimmy by Tool

Runaway by Voyager!

Hollywood Baby by 100 Gecs

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!

Working on a thinkpiece called, “The Enshittification Of Using The Term ‘Enshittification’”

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

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.)

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.

Siri transcriptions of French voicemails are wild, y'all.

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.

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.)

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

Disney+ has been unavailable for me since at least yesterday afternoon — anyone else?

Tzatziki Tuesday 🇬🇷

After being on hiatus for a few weeks, The Angelo Report is back with a (very short) essay.

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: https://atelier.software)

Grapefruit is the worst fruit and I will brook no quarrel on the topic.

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.

Hacking Subaru: tracking and controlling cars via the STARLINK Admin Panel /me wraps his Impreza in tinfoil samcurry.net/hacking-s…

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:

(This is a test.)