Brian Lovin

My latest flights-n-weekends project — I made the first version of this last spring and it's the first time a read-it-later app has stuck for me long-term. I hope you find it useful 🔖 shiori.sh

@bilal_limi But I love the upstream dependencies

@brian_lovin Just have enough fans. Also cheaper and they don't stop working if AWS is down.

Everyone makes fun of Eight Sleep until it's 84º in SF and they don't have a liquid-cooled mattress. Suckers.

@jamesjacoby_ Never had that!

@brian_lovin I’m tempted, but I’ve heard the liquid-cooled mattress experience includes a brief “oh no I peed” scare on the first night.

@round "Claude, what's the tldr"

my advice to designers of the future: read a book

@gabrielvaldivia Please leave my ⚽🏀 alone Jk it's a fair callout. AI is making us (me) lazier.

@brian_lovin it's the same premise "oh what was that thing about?" == "is this worth my time?" Just busting your ⚽️🏀

I get it, but also depressing

@gabrielvaldivia Hm. Summaries in a bookmarking tool are helpful to peek at "oh what was that thing about?" in the preview card. They also improve search indexing. It's not a very big button designed to replace reading the source text.

@brian_lovin So depressing…

@kurt What about nice + playful sense of humor?? 🙈

@brian_lovin Just when I was saying that Notion employees are so nice. 😂

His head will explode when he looks at the FedEx logo for a bit

@theombl @NotionHQ @shiryehoshua @ivanhzhao @simonlast @akothari ❤️

wrapped up at @NotionHQ last week -- met some lifelong friends, shipped a lot, and learned tons. to say i remain bullish would be an understatement. very grateful to @shiryehoshua, @ivanhzhao, @simonlast, and @akothari for taking a chance on me 3 years ago.

This was a stupid joke but the prompt is actually...good?

@Eric_M_Stevens I actually base my decision entirely on the corner radius of their buttons. Don’t box me in.

@brian_lovin picking between five C-named coding tools based on vibes and speed is the most unserious way to build serious software and i'm completely here for it

Using Cursor again today for the first time in a while. Still using Claude Code, Codex, Conductor, of course. First: someone needs to rename because the C-named companies are out of control. Second: fast is good. Composer 2 is good because it's fast. That's all you need to know to at least give it a try. Third: I am grateful that I can switch between all of these tools in an instant. Little-to-no lock in. I pick the thing that gives me the most intelligence-per-second-per-dollar and am happy.

@ijsthee So subtle it hurts

@brian_lovin His mind will be blown when he finds out there’s a hidden arrow

@thejustinguo 😂 you rock

@brian_lovin Holy shit

@aarondfrancis Every time

@bnj Idk sometimes the pixels just don't nudge quite the right way and it takes time to get it right (but generally agree)

The hard part of UI design was never the pixel nudging

@lilingxi01 Enterprise 🥲

@brian_lovin Dropped 🤫

@lilingxi01 So I hear 👀

@brian_lovin glad to here that!!! and... we might have one more thing for you 👀

@MattBond21 All of the above. Codex CLI, Claude Code in terminal, Claude Code in Desktop app + mobile...I use it all

@brian_lovin I assume codex and Claude cli, not the apps themselves?

@justin_schueler Not so far, will keep an eye out

@brian_lovin tried it again today as well. did you run into performance issues as well? eating quite a lot of cpu and fans going cracy (mbp m4). Not in issue in codex or superset.

@bnj You're absolutely right

@brian_lovin The solution is more music-themed names: Opus, Sonnet, Orchestrator, Conductor, Composer