CleanShot X is my must-have screenshot and screen recording app on macOS — fast, polished, and reliably great. Its built-in editing is just enough that I almost never need another app.
The best AI-powered IDE, without a doubt. I can ship at warp speed while maintaining the top 0.1% engineering quality. Bugbot is my favorite.
It can generate production-grade code if you treat agent as your intern and give it solid examples to learn from. Mentor your AI just like how you mentor your intern, and you will get the best out of it.
I prefer to call Dia a regular browser, not an AI browser — it is yet another UI for ChatGPT and couldn't do browser operations yet. The design is clean, polished, and genuinely satisfying. The foldable, vertical tab sidebar is unmatched and quietly reshapes how I stay focused.
Linear's real magic is how satisfying it is to use daily — blazing fast, keyboard-first, and deeply integrated with GitHub and Cursor. It turns issue tracking into an actual command center.
Raycast is my Spotlight replacement for everything — launching apps, calculating math, converting units, and running scripts without touching the mouse.
With clipboard history, window management, hyper key, custom shortcuts, and extensions for everything, it genuinely levels up my productivity.
Spark is my HEY alternative for the AI era — keeping my inbox clean with screening and pinned threads while letting me stay in the Google ecosystem for better integrations (so I can use Poke). It handles the basics perfectly, though I do wish the iOS gestures felt as native as Apple Mail.
The most native graphical Git client on macOS. It makes working with stacked PRs feel controlled and effortless — the kind of tool that removes all the stress from operations that usually feel risky.
My #1 password manager. I now have randomized passwords + OTP everywhere. Not even mentioning an amazing experience for cross-device syncing, autofill, and passkeys.
Elegant, reliable, and powerful real-time flight tracker like no other. Predicts delays even a few hours before airlines announce them.
Must have for every Tesla owner. When data meets EV, every drive becomes insight — performance, battery aging, stats, history, consumption breakdown, and beyond.
Practical checklist for building delightful user experiences: hit targets, focus management, loading states, and much more — with specific thresholds, expected behaviors, and CSS patterns.
A very subtle, comfortable, and curated typeface. This is the font used by my website right now, and ChatGPT also used Klim's font a few years ago, at the time GPT-3.5 skyrocketed to popularity.
Amie was great before it became a $20/mo app. I eventually moved back to Google Calendar for its reliability and deeper features like rooms, custom update messages, everything just works.
Still, Amie was beautifully innovative: split-screen iOS app, to-dos in your calendar, email in your calendar, and now an AI note-taker (like everyone else).
Arc made the browser feel new again — opinionated, playful, and surprisingly good for focus, with synced tabs across devices as the killer feature for me, which makes it extra sad that Arc is no longer actively developed.
HEY made email feel intentional again with screening and feed views that kept my inbox clean without effort. But as the AI era arrived, it fell behind on intelligence and integrations, eventually pushing me back to Gmail's broader ecosystem.
My go-to task manager for chores, personal learning, groceries list, and side projects. Beautiful, beautiful, and beautiful.
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