biophilia,
an overgrown mindbody
Posts by Andre Vacha
growing pond
mindbody, with material
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
time passing in pond
reflections done, next caustics
pond.space
speaks directly to its design as a digital space
pond.life
in some sense a journal-tracker-planner is a description of how you live, so this is suitable
domain name options:
pond.space
pond.app
pond.io
@ronent.bsky.social @wesleyfinck.org this bodes super well for Cosmik!
logo? maybe?
We've reached the end of a chapter, but our journey has only just begun. Read more about our reflections on an amazing year with Astera, our rebrand, and what's ahead. Hint: a lot more #atproto!
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draws on the idea of โmagic circleโ, the symbol of the monad, and the idea that you, the essential you, is akin to a vast blue sky.
The holy trinity for me is the abyss / contact / arrival
amidst spaces for work and spaces for distraction, enter a space for contemplation
love what you're doing with probablyfrens, and hope brining it over here is the cool thing you want to with it! It would satisfy a personal need as I try to discover people here, especially people like me working on projects that could benefit from mutual aid and support.
What does it mean to โgrow the selfโ to you? What frameworks come to mind? An invitation to add them here
www.are.na/andre-vacha/...
๐ that went so deep
i love this effect. Makes it come alive.
account cards with a sense of physicality from Horizon
cc @playbalatro.com
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
desktop magnet poetry
thoughts are just ripples on the surface of consciousness
Months of @threejs.org after, the way that you enter a sacred space for Self is by stepping into and through this orb of water. Its visceral in a way that navigating to a page, clicking on a link in a sidebar, could never be.
the question permitted thinking about tone and environmental design as serious design concerns for software.
much of the thinking around Commonplace (a digital journal I've been working on, name pending) is a response to a question @finnmacken.bsky.social once posed: "why are meditation apps libraries of content and not meditative experiences"?
less "tools to use" and more "places to be"
life is peaceful.
true friends, hot girlfriend, a diminishing sense of self
Weโre keeping it. Has to feel precious