12' 0'' ethnically New Jerseyan • Software engineer @livekit • Ex @qatalog • das blinkenlights • Co-creator of @_phosphoricons
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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
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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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Extry, extry! Best new icons of 2025 is out — medium.com/@minoraxis/best-n…
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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
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More box-drawing characters, now available in Departure Mono!
departuremono.com
ALT A blueprint-like sketch using box-drawing characters
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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
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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 😂)
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Devs building in voice and video AI, we’ve got something special cooked up for next week — on 4/30, we’re doing a fireside chat with @juberti in SF.
Justin is a legend. He created the WebRTC protocol, led dev for Google Meet and Stadia, started @FixieAI, and is now the Head of Realtime AI at @OpenAI.
Come hang out with us @fdotinc, there will be lots of food and good vibes!
ALT Promotional graphic for a 'Realtime AI Meetup' taking place on April 30 at Founders Inc in Fort Mason, San Francisco. The design features a black background with small white pixel-like dots, giving a starry effect. Partner logos for OpenAI, LiveKit, Founders, Inc., and Sierra appear at the bottom.
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Unreal Tournament was released for Windows on this day, 25 years ago (1999).
Facing Worlds is one of the greatest multiplayer maps of all time.
ALT Facing Worlds, also known by its filename CTF-Face.
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Another new demo today. This time, how we can rebuild a phone routing system using real phones, but easily put an AI agent in the loop to act as a virtual front desk.
You get the "press 1 for X" menu you're used to, but can talk to it like a human 🤯
github.com/livekit-examples/…
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OpenAI announced the Realtime API today. While access rolls out to all devs, try the API using our key:
playground.livekit.io/