12' 0'' ethnically New Jerseyan • Software engineer @livekit • Ex @qatalog • das blinkenlights • Co-creator of @_phosphoricons
Denver, CO
Joined September 2013
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Tobias Fried retweeted
Compound icons make you think harder. medium.com/@minoraxis/advanc…
ALT The same icon with 2 potential meanings
Tobias Fried retweeted
Tobias Fried retweeted
Starting a series on advanced icon tips. First up, we're looking at the classic smiley to see how to treat dots. Dots want to be a little bigger than the stroke weight to look balanced. Read more: minoraxis.medium.com/advance…
ALT A comparison showing optically adjusted eyes in a smiley icon
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It’s been a while! We’ve been a liiiiittle busy with our little one 👶
Some new things are in the works for Phosphor 2.2 ~
ALT Baby icons including a newborn, diaper, and baby bottle
RT @livekit: Grok's Text to Speech API is now available in LiveKit Inference.
Natural, expressive voices with low-latency streaming. Multi…
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Tobias Fried retweeted
Extry, extry! Best new icons of 2025 is out — medium.com/@minoraxis/best-n…
Tobias Fried retweeted
Now that LiveKit has inference, creating a voice agent is 2 commands:
- brew install livekit-cli
- lk agent init
This connects you to cloud, gets you to name a project — and you're just ... done. It works. No API keys, and the agent code all lives on your machine.
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Introducing LiveKit Inference — a new cloud service that gives you access to the most popular voice AI models with just your LiveKit API key.
We manage rate limits for you, report on usage, and consolidate billing. All LiveKit Cloud plans now include free monthly inference credits.
A single string update allows you to call models from:
@AssemblyAI
@cartesia
@DeepgramAI
@elevenlabs
@GoogleDeepMind
@inworld
@OpenAI
@rimelabs
Turns out it didn't matter and @AmericanAir delayed the flight 13 hours, refused to offer a hotel that was within a reasonable distance, off a shuttle (car seat still checked), and had cribs for the room. Zero consideration for traveling with infant. Gross, greedy, despicable.
Tobias Fried retweeted
More box-drawing characters, now available in Departure Mono!
departuremono.com
ALT A blueprint-like sketch using box-drawing characters
GitHub light mode = work
GitHub dark mode = play
Anyone else feel the same? Might have to make a plugin to do this on a schedule, and per-repo.
Tobias Fried retweeted
It was a blast sharing the story behind Departure Mono and my design approach at #Config2025. Here's the recording of my talk if you missed it: youtu.be/bbZTRsvmzbQ?si=Sk_P….
A big thank you to @figma for making this possible for me 3 months postpartum (it was HARD!) and to @friedtm my best editor and my partner in everything.
And what a TREAT it was to visit @Lett_Arc the same day and see some of their library. If you have't been yet, you have to visit!
ALT Helena on stage with pixel font Departure Mono in the background
Tobias Fried retweeted
We’re growing our design team at @livekit! Love building awesome things and having fun while doing it?
Come join us 👉jobs.ashbyhq.com/livekit/fe1…
When your teammates are so sweet. Thank you for making my day, @marijanapav @protozog @ThomFoolery84 <3
(cannot get over that hilarious dancing animation in @gather_town 😂)
Can't wait to watch @minor_axis give this talk to *other people* for a change. Always proud and inspired by you, and wish we could be there in person <3
Thrilled to be returning to the stage at #Config2025 San Francisco!!! I’ll be sharing my design philosophy through the case study of Departure Mono. May 7.
config.figma.com/san-francis…
departuremono.com/
ALT A photo of Helena against a colorful background