Brian Lovin
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1Password
Keep your passwords safe
AirPods Pro 3
Noise cancelling so good it’s borderline dangerous
Apple Watch Series 11
Titanium finish, Nike sport band black with speckles
Audible
For reading on the go
Bartender
Tidies up my menu bar
Beeper
All-in-one texting tool
Belkin 3-in-1
A high quality charger for all my daily carries
Claude
My preferred AI chat app
Claude Code
The best coding agent
CleanMyMac
Keeps my Mac tidy
CleanShot X
The best way to take screenshots and screen recordings on macOS
Cloudflare
Website hosting and other things
Coinbase
Betting my children’s future on Bitcoin
Cometeer
Once you’ve tried it you’ll never go back to your old coffee
Copilot
Beautiful and functional budgeting
Cursor
My IDE of choice
Dia
My favorite browser
Discord
For smaller community chats
Duolingo
Currently learning Chinese
Extendible pointer finger
Stop touching your screen
Fathom
Fast, privacy-first web analytics
Fellow Stagg EKG Gooseneck
Breaks all the time, but is nice to look at
Figma
Auto-layout maxxing every day
Function Health
Well designed blood testing for key biomarkers
Ghostty
A native terminal replacement
GitHub Mobile
Merging pull requests on the toilet
Handbrake
Fast and simple video compression
iPhone 17 Pro
Silver, of course
iPhone TechWoven Case
Case on while exercising, otherwise case-free
Keynote
Real designers know
Letterboxd
Where I occassionally remember to track the movies I’ve seen
LG C2 65”
A fantastic all-arounder for games and movies
Little Snitch
Keeps my network clean
Logitech MX Master 3S
Yes, I design with a mouse not a trackpad
MacBook Pro M4
M-series Macs are a miracle
Mimestream
Best-in-class email apps
Next.js
My favorite framework to build fast websites
Notion
Keeping my life and work organized
Notion Calendar
The best default calendar app
Partiful
A great party planner for friends
PlanetScale
Database go brrr
Pocket Casts
The best podcast client for iOS
Postmark
A simple and easy to use transactional email service for side projects
Raycast
The first app I install on a new computer
Safari
My browser of choice for iOS
SF Symbols
The perfect icon companion for software design
Shortcuts
Shortcuts for iOS, mostly a glorified app launcher
Slopes
An incredibly well-designed ski/snowboard activity tracker
Sonos
Play your music everywhere in your house
Sony WH-1000XM5
Great over-ear headphones, terrible software
Spotify
My music streaming platform of choice, but it’s getting harder every year
Steam
The best place to buy and play games on PC
Substack
Lots of good writing buried in them there hills
Sudoku a Day
The only good Sudoku app on the App Store
Tailwind CSS
Write CSS at the speed-of-thought
Tesla Model Y
2020 model with FSD