Nick Arner

Engineer in Residence @SHV
Investing early in founders making better computers
Previously: various startups and open source projects

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If you’re working on making computers easier in some capacity, please get in touch with me.

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@eugenewei @vatsal_manot

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@Ethan_is_online @syriansigma so good

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@pianostring4tet Thank you!!

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Opening up the beta for Glyph Engine: https://t.co/Jqa8A2mQd2

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Made a thing to search SF symbols / emojis on your computer by drawing

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@JoshuaNewton Ah forgot to include the actual TestFlight link!
https://t.co/Jqa8A2mQd2

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@JoshuaNewton Working on a new way to search the catalog if you’d like to test! https://t.co/yTdLOJOPi9

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Going to call this one GlyphEngine - should be ready soon!

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@viditb Easily could have just used a mm-wave radar

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@jsngr Currently hacking on

https://t.co/HqsMB0jpxt

https://t.co/Jqa8A2mQd2

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@jsngr Currently hacking on

https://t.co/HqsMB0jpxt

https://t.co/Jqa8A2mQd2

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Going to call this one GlyphEngine - should be ready soon!

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@benhylak Where's that from?

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@ArtirKel Yup! It's Apple's OS system symbols https://t.co/XWoURFgLfK

They have an app for them, but it's hard to search, and you can't iterate on your own (which is why I'm hacking on this)

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Pretty good example of going from rough sketch and "circuit board" as the instruction to a polished SF Symbol SVG

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Not bad for taking a pretty crappy sketch and getting something good!

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Looks like the closest SF symbol to the Claude logo is the laser burst one

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@sharifshameem Talk to @Shmall

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In some ways, iPads and iPhones are computing appliances, not computers

[TBPN @tbpn]

"It is in some ways offensive to me that iOS is a nearly 20-year-old computer on which you cannot make software for the computer itself." — @gruber

"At this point, an iPad Pro costs like $2,000. And you can't use it to make apps. It's kind of bizarre."

"Even if it was just like, 10 people — a consumer-level of TestFlight distribution — where you can make apps for your friends and family and distribute it on up to 10 devices. And it doesn't go through Apple, doesn't need approval, you just make it and distribute it."

"Yes, it's disruptive to Apple's business. But the disruption is inevitable anyway. So why not go with what's cool, and do the coolest thing possible, that makes new possibilities available to your users and developers on your platform?"

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Anyone have a connection to someone at @livekindred? We’ve had a really, really subpar experience with support and would like to get this actually resolved

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@johnhanacek Thank you!!

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Going to call this one GlyphEngine - should be ready soon!

[Nick Arner @nickarner]

Made a thing to search SF symbols / emojis on your computer by drawing

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@soleio Absolutely worth the read