12' 0'' ethnically New Jerseyan • Software engineer @livekit • Ex @qatalog • das blinkenlights • Co-creator of @_phosphoricons
Joined September 2013
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Tobias Fried retweeted
Zodiac signs coming in Phosphor 2.2
ALT Colorful cards show Zodiac signs
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Voice cloning is now available on LiveKit Inference. We’re launching with @inworld_ai and @cartesia.
Clone a voice once and use it across multiple TTS providers, with automatic fallback to the same voice if a provider fails mid-call.
Free to create and available on all paid plans today.
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Tobias Fried retweeted
Apr 17
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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We shipped Agent Console, a realtime debugging surface for voice agents. Talk to your agent and see the entire pipeline live, from audio and latency to tool calls, transcripts, and participant state.
Available now in the LiveKit Cloud dashboard.
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Tobias Fried retweeted
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
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Mar 16
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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31 Dec 2025
Extry, extry! Best new icons of 2025 is out — medium.com/@minoraxis/best-n…
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24 Nov 2025
accidentally discovered the website for Departure Mono, made by the makers of Phosphor Icons. what a beauty🧡
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Tobias Fried retweeted
10 Oct 2025
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_ai
@OpenAI
@rimelabs
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23 Jun 2025
"I'll never be late to the airport again" he swore to himself, lying
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24 Jun 2025
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.
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Tobias Fried retweeted
28 May 2025
More box-drawing characters, now available in Departure Mono!
departuremono.com
ALT A blueprint-like sketch using box-drawing characters
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19 May 2025
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.
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Tobias Fried retweeted
16 May 2025
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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Tobias Fried retweeted
7 May 2025
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…
18 Apr 2025
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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7 May 2025
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
19 Mar 2025
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/
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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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