Tobias Fried

12' 0'' ethnically New Jerseyan • Software engineer @livekit • Ex @qatalog • das blinkenlights • Co-creator of @_phosphoricons

[Phosphor Icons @_phosphoricons]

Zodiac signs coming in Phosphor 2.2

[LiveKit @livekit]

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.

[Helena @minor_axis]

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: https://t.co/0Eidy3G6e0

[LiveKit @livekit]

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.

[Phosphor Icons @_phosphoricons]

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 ~

[Tobias Fried @friedtm]

RT @livekit: Grok's Text to Speech API is now available in LiveKit Inference.

Natural, expressive voices with low-latency streaming. Multi…

[Tobias Fried @friedtm]

@IroncladDev Something like enhanced import maps where `import { Xyz } from "foo"` could map to a dynamic module by substituting `import { $ } from "foo/bar/{$}"`

[Tobias Fried @friedtm]

@IroncladDev It would be great if there was a way to accomplish the same ease of use without the overhead, esp. for libraries with a large, flat structure (e.g. icons).

[Tobias Fried @friedtm]

@marijanapav SAME

[Helena @minor_axis]

Extry, extry! Best new icons of 2025 is out — https://t.co/bVLlSVvMxu

[Tobias Fried @friedtm]

@zetalyrae Jin Roh is a sleeper. One of my favorites.

[priya @priyaality]

accidentally discovered the website for Departure Mono, made by the makers of Phosphor Icons. what a beauty🧡

[Tobias Fried @friedtm]

@awesomekling I think you're being unfairly labeled because while you're not talking politics, you're talking about talking about politics. DHH has said and expressed some pretty obvious white nationalist ideas, the best thing for you to do if you mean it is to stop bringing him up altogether.

[Tobias Fried @friedtm]

@AdamRackis It's 99% water, I refuse to entertain any other notion than it's good for me and I don't have a problem 🙈

[Shayne @shayneparlo]

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.

[LiveKit @livekit]

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

[Tobias Fried @friedtm]

@awesomekling Close race, but looks like the nos have it

[Tobias Fried @friedtm]

@scalar Cool technique! Many of Departure Mono site's animations/interactives are made by embedding Solidjs components in svg -> foreignObject

[Tobias Fried @friedtm]

@nixcraft @joy That you didn't think to include attribution to begin with is wild

[Tobias Fried @friedtm]

@giorgitabunidze @allypallyxcx @BetaProfiles If you have young eyes, good vision, and aren't colorblind