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Mike Krieger

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Now: Co-founder & CTO of @artifact_news . Before: co-founder & CTO of @instagram

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Mike Krieger
4 years
got Zoom working on the Peloton aka Peak 2020
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Favorite tech-related things this year: 1) The Steam Deck which let me rediscover video games as a father of 2 who no longer can carve out time in front of the TV. I sunk something like 50 hours into Elden Ring on that thing 😅
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1 year
Oh hi there @ArcInternet for iOS! So many details that they’ve gotten just right. In the store today:
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2 years
Proud to be one of the first beta users of Opal a few months back. Early on: Lots of crashed zoom calls 😅 Now: Probably the best webcam 😀 Future: This is what I’m stoked for 😍 Keep on building @opalcamera :)
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4 years
This weekend, my wife @kaitlyntrigger and I built , so you can discover cherished SF restaurants & cafes offering gift cards. Let us know what you think, and please consider supporting your local favorites through gift cards through these challenging times.
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5 years
Best use of Stories sticker pinning I've ever seen
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5 years
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4 years
We're open sourcing the code behind the website, too: If you're interested in the JS + d3 code that powers the visualizations on the site, it's now there for you to explore
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4 years
Just pushed a set of visual tweaks & performance improvements to . Thx to @yoavweiss for the detailed perf ideas & to @rauchg & the next.js team (ported it over to Next as part of changes)
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4 years
Both @kevin and I love @patrick_oshag ’s podcast, so we were excited to join him for the latest episode
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Patrick OShaughnessy
4 years
My guests this week are @kevin and @mikeyk , the co-founders of Instagram. We discuss everything: - product + growth - managing teams - finding problems to solve - pillars of a good business - investing - machine learning, flying, coffee So fun
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4 years
We wrote up how we‘ve automated our daily Rt Live pipeline runs using Airflow and Amazon ECS; let us know if you have any questions that we can answer about the set-up:
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4 years
Just launched: you can now easily share any state graph's Rt curve. Hover over the chart and click "Share"; chart will show up as a Twitter card
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Mike Krieger
4 years
Oh man the new no-code-reload Fast Refresh in Next.js 9.4 is magic; huge hat tip to the @vercel folks and @dan_abramov :
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5 years
when you fell asleep on the keyboard when naming your product but now it's too late to change it
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4 years
Huge update launched today for Rt Live — new detail pages for every state, and a new, improved model that we're open-sourcing. Here's Florida's (worrying) state page:
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Mike Krieger
4 years
Launching today with @kevin — up-to-date measures of the infection rate per-US state
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Kevin Systrom
4 years
Today we're launching See how quickly #COVID19 is growing in each US state. Rt is the metric we need to watch.
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8 months
We've been heads down on this one for the last few weeks and I'm super excited to launch it!
@Artifact_News
ARTIFACT
8 months
Artifact is expanding beyond articles! Starting today, you can share any link from the web that’s interesting to you and view a personalized feed of links based on your interests — broadening what’s possible to discover with Artifact’s AI. Learn more in our post, linked in🧵
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4) Svelte & SvelteKit making front end development a joy. Svelte strikes just the right balance when adding reactivity, the docs are good, and it just feels like it gets out of the way
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4 years
Made some big performance improvements to our main visualization at when animating or highlighting states that have reopened/never sheltered— give it a try :)
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3) GitHub Copilot which I use dozens if not hundreds of times a day. Most commonly it’s cutting out having to write out tedious code, but it also occasionally surprises me and teaches me something new or a creative way of solving a problem
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1 year
2) Spatialized Stereo mode on the AirPods Pro Max; I revisited a ton of albums I hadn’t listened to in years and they sound incredible. If you haven’t tried it yet it’s really worth a shot (in Fixed, not Head Tracking, Mode)
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2 years
One of the greatest Twitter threads I’ve ever seen
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2 years
“A still of Kermit The Frog in Blade Runner 2049 (2017)” #dalle
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4 years
impressed with @vercel ; we've been using it for to have an easy way for team members to push branches to GitHub and instantly have a working preview URL
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Mike Krieger
2 years
Nice try, insurance website.
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Mike Krieger
4 years
life with a dog and a baby who's learning to eat solid food
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Mike Krieger
4 years
New on — the state charts mark Shelter-in-Place being lifted in some states.
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Mike Krieger
11 months
Exciting update in @artifact_news : our reading level cards just got an interactive 3D makeover. Visit your profile, tap your current level, and see the magic for yourself. Curious how we did it on iOS and Android? Here's the thread: 🧵
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Mike Krieger
5 months
I could watch @gunnargray 's new splash screen animation for days
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Mike Krieger
4 years
Something old (vim in split-mode) and something new (iPad Magic Keyboard, with @coda_hq ’s Prompt for SSH)
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Mike Krieger
2 years
Today’s Figma/Adobe news brings together two excellent humans — @zoink and @scottbelsky . Excited to see what they build together!
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Mike Krieger
2 years
Deeply excited about what they're cooking up over at @browsercompany and leading their latest round alongside some fantastic operators and technologists
@browsercompany
The Browser Company
2 years
What if your browser cared about more than being just a search box? Excited to dream about “what can be” in this next chapter of the internet — and to share a new round of funding ( @mikeyk @tobi @Stewart ) in the Wall Street Journal.
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Mike Krieger
1 year
It's been super fun to see the brand come to life between @omgadamho and our very own @gunnargray
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adam ho
1 year
New work: Artifact logo and brand identity It's been an honor and a privilege to work with @kevin , @mikeyk , and @rmstein to bring their massive vision to life. 🫶 Sign up for the beta here:
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Mike Krieger
5 years
Being a new dad means exposure to some priceless moments of UI design
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Mike Krieger
4 years
2 years ago, I met Charles, who learned to code while incarcerated and was looking for a role in tech after leaving prison. He joined @slackHQ , who are sharing their blueprint for the apprenticeship program he did (and graduated from!). thanks to @stewart and team for sharing
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Stewart Butterfield
4 years
A highlight of 2019 was the success of Jesse, Lino & Charles, the first three people going through Next Chapter. I am so proud of these men, and the support shown by the whole company. 🙇 In this post: blueprint doc download for other orgs to try + video:
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Mike Krieger
3 years
Very impressed with this Mac Gmail client; SwiftUI/native performance but using the Gmail API (so Search / Labels / Smart inboxes work as expected):
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1 year
The Browser Co team is hard at work on the Windows version — really impressive technical lift
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Hursh Agrawal
1 year
We wrapped our first ever @browsercompany Windows offsite last week! I gave a mini update in All Hands yesterday.. and thought why not share behind the scenes with you too? We're sprinting hard to get Arc onto Windows in 2023 — exact timing still 🤐! 🪟more below & next week🪟
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Mike Krieger
4 years
Lots of fun sitting down with @m2jr and @kevin to chat about Instagram's origins and growth
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Mike Krieger
4 years
New on : you can now see the number of new cases in each state alongside our Rt estimates:
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Mike Krieger
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Fun way we've been using @felt here at @Artifact_News — we draw custom (often overlapping) polygons for regions, and then use them to geo-gate publishers that are local-only news. Exports to GeoJSON and then geopandas on the Python side matches user location with regions.
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Mike Krieger
10 months
One of my favorite little @arcinternet features — hovering over a @figma tab will show you quick links to other Figma documents
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Mike Krieger
4 years
Perf/compatibility update just launched on : ✅ removed most dependencies, including antd & rc-menu by writing simple re-implementations. first-run JS size -40% ✅ using msgpack instead of JSON for our data file, data file size -30% ✅ now works on IE11
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Mike Krieger
2 years
Who says Swift and WindowsUI aren’t friends? @browsercompany working on Windows support for Arc and solving a bunch of interesting technical challenges along the way
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Steve Kirbach
2 years
🪟Windows is coming! I'm pretty stoked to share with ya'll this little sneak peak of Arc on Windows. This is written completely in **Swift** using @WindowsUI 😲
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Mike Krieger
3 years
Really enjoyed this conversation with @sriramk and honored to be his first guest on the new video series!
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Sriram Krishnan - sriramk.eth
3 years
🚨ANN: We have a new launch with @ObserverEffect - "Reverse Engineered" - a interview/docu Youtube series with leading founders. Who better to start with than Instagram's co-founder Mike Krieger. Full vid with @mikeyk here >> (remember to subscribe!)
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Mike Krieger
1 year
Two recent gamechangers for iOS development: * by @merowing_ (live reload your views instantly when saving in Xcode) * (GitHub Copilot support in Xcode. Not as smooth as in VSCode but pretty dang good)
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Mike Krieger
1 year
Today we're adding the ability to comment on articles on @ARTIFACT_News . Update your app in the App or Play Store to try it out. Articles also now get a full-screen treatment once you start scrolling. Looking forward to hearing what you think!
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Mike Krieger
4 years
30-minute hack project this morning: simple node app that will watch for incoming 2 factor codes from SMS and put them in your clipboard (so you can paste them in Chrome/Edge etc):
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Mike Krieger
5 years
Wow, is there anything Crypto *can't* do these days?
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Mike Krieger
5 years
@shl @kevin Yep. Those three were our bread and butter. Even on established products we'd see gains focusing on quality and perf, eg on video loading. Plus of course willing to make big changes to the product when needed...followed by more speed, perf, quality work on those changes
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Mike Krieger
2 years
Super excited about both the product and team they’re building over at @browsercompany
@browsercompany
The Browser Company
2 years
✨“Maybe it’s time to admit that the basic assumption of what a browser is could be all wrong”✨ Our friends @mikeyk , @darinwf , and @zoink spoke with Bloomberg @BW about @browsercompany – and why we should ask more of our browsers!
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Mike Krieger
4 years
we spin up a headless Chrome browser, render the graph (plus the extra elements you see in the Card above), and use puppeteer to grab that as an image, which we then put in S3/CloudFront and redirect to. that way we're able to make these show the right data when you share it
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Mike Krieger
4 years
Pop-Up Magazine is always one of my favorite events in SF. They're doing an amazing job of adapting to the current situation by moving to digital — new edition premiering right now on YouTube
@PopUpMag
Pop-Up Magazine
4 years
WE'RE LIVE! Stream our all-new Spring Issue: At Home now! Featuring new stories, dance, music, art, and animation. With @alyssalimp , @MohanadElshieky , @ESilvermanMD , @rosedontwalk . @miamarket , and more!
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Mike Krieger
1 year
Along with @artifact_news now being available to anyone without a waitlist, here's some animation magic from @gunnargray
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Mike Krieger
5 months
Super cool that @Artifact_News is included in this year’s App Store Awards Trend of the Year on Generative AI 🚀
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Mike Krieger
4 years
Really excited to see folks take the SaveOurFaves source code and build local versions: London: Singapore: Toronto: Erie, PA: If anyone else has built one, let me know!
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Mike Krieger
4 years
We just launched East Bay, Marin, and South Bay support on , plus an easier way to contribute any missing links. Thanks all for reaching out — current plan is to focus on the Bay Area, so our FAQ now links to other sites with similar efforts elsewhere.
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4 years
pretty sure I came in under the wire on "Is it worth the time?" on this one
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1 year
So cool to see @ARTIFACT_News featured in the @AppStore . We’re less than a month out from launch and loving all of the feedback.
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Captions team continues to ship well-designed, well-crafted and highly useful applications of AI
@getcaptionsapp
Captions
1 month
Introducing Captions for web. Video editing made simple, thanks to AI — now on a bigger screen. One-click editing, right from your browser.
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Today we launched AI-powered summaries in @ARTIFACT_News . We had some fun with the summary styles... I'm a fan of the poem & the ELI5 ones :) Update in the App Store to check it out, Android version coming very soon.
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New in today’s @ARTIFACT_News update — highlight text in articles and share as an image (and an option to share as an image even without highlighting). And reactions ❤️😂😮. Update now to check it out!
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Mike Krieger
5 years
Very excited to see @joulee 's new book out today; I read it pre-release and it's one of the best books on becoming a manager and growing a team that I've read:
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Mike Krieger
2 years
Tell me I have kids without telling me I have kids
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Mike Krieger
7 months
New on Artifact iOS — you can choose to use the built-in Safari Webview, if you prefer. Request we got from some folks — try it out in the latest release!
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Mike Krieger
5 years
Since newsletters are all the rage these days, a quick plug for my favorite app of 2019 so far: (imagine a great podcast app but for newsletters)
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Mike Krieger
3 years
Excited to be an investor in @geneva as well; they have a fresh & thoughtful take on groups & communities
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Li Jin
3 years
Here's your answer to the age-old "Where should my group live?" debate. I am excited to share the official public launch of @geneva , a new communication app for groups, clubs, and communities of all shapes and sizes! ( @AtelierVentures is an investor)
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4 years
No better way to understand the latest on tech in Brazil + LatAm than this report from some of the smartest folks working in the region. Nice work @JulioV and team!
@AtlanticoPart
Atlantico
4 years
The 2020 Edition of the Latin America Digital Transformation Report is here. 200 data-filled slides on the state of tech in Brazil and LatAm. By our partner @JulioV and a rockstar research team.
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Mike Krieger
4 years
Fun project from ex-Instagram engineer (and collaborator) @turtlesoupy : This Word Does Not Exist, using AI to generate strangely real sounding fake words. The linguistics geek in me is happy:
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Mike Krieger
3 years
I got to spend time with the first batch of South Park Commons Fellows and it was a blast — great energy and talent in a supportive environment. They just opened up applications for their summer cohort:
@rsanghvi
Ruchi Sanghvi
3 years
1/ Moving fast is conventional wisdom in Silicon Valley. Many founders feel pressure when starting a company to get to an MVP, customers, and a seed round as quickly as possible. This is often a mistake. That's why we started the Founder Fellowship.
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Mike Krieger
2 years
Cheesemonger or death metal band name?
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Mike Krieger
2 years
Heading to Miami for the F1 GP — growing up as a kid in Brazil we'd go every year, and it's been awesome to see the sport take off here in the US as well. Anyone else going?
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1 year
@manicakes accurate
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Mike Krieger
5 years
Fantastic engineering blog post on @figmadesign ’s collaboration/“multiplayer” tech
@zoink
Dylan Field
5 years
Over the past four years, countless people have asked me how @figmadesign 's multiplayer tech works. In one of the best technical blog posts I've ever read, my cofounder @evanwallace bares all and reveals the secret sauce behind our tech:
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Mike Krieger
8 months
Looking forward to taking the Code Conference stage in 10 days with @CaseyNewton . See you there: .
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Mike Krieger
8 months
On stage in an hour at Code Conference, talking with @CaseyNewton . What would you like to hear about?
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Mike Krieger
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Had fun writing this with @kzh — what we learned around prompting GPT, and product design details for AI features, for our launch today of AI-powered headline rewriting
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Mike Krieger
3 years
If the iCloud link doesn’t work here’s the setup
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Mike Krieger
4 years
engineering behind the scenes on this addition (1/2): our charts are rendered using d3.js in your browser using SVG. but Twitter's scraper (which generates the card images) doesn't support SVGs, it wants a PNG or JPG. so when Twitter crawls us to get Card image...
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4 years
@patrick_oshag @dgraphlabs you can accomplish much of the same using a traditional RDBMS + some reasonable horizontal sharding strategy...it's never felt worth it to me to adopt a whole db for one specific use-case
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Mike Krieger
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Exciting update in @artifact_news : our reading level cards just got an interactive 3D makeover. Visit your profile, tap your current level, and see the magic for yourself. Curious how we did it on iOS and Android? Here's the thread: 🧵
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Mike Krieger
2 years
Our friend @pde33 (Peter Eckersley) passed away last night. We’re heartbroken — he was an incredibly rare mix of brilliance, joy, humility, and curiosity. Every conversation with him left us energized to be better humans, to think bigger, to ask more questions, to keep learning.
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Mike Krieger
3 years
New nightly moment of happy surprise; created a simple Shortcut that finds 5 random videos in your camera roll that you’ve Favorited and shows them in a Preview:
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Mike Krieger
1 year
My better half @kaitlyntrigger and her team have been sprinting to launch @lets_shimmy in 90 days and here it is! Daily fun-size workouts to keep you moving during the holidays:
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Mike Krieger
4 years
Is there a contacts app/manager that can: - handle people as both individuals and part of a couple? - let couples share a mailing address but each have their own email - easily export to CSV? I end up reinventing this every year with a combination of Sheets & Python scripts...
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Mike Krieger
5 years
Live now! We're interviewing some of the super bright @pioneerdotapp Pioneers
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Mike Krieger
8 months
Every time I get the chance to use @vercel I'm reminded of how great their developer experience is. Dreaming of one day having something that smooth for our iOS & Android builds too.
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Mike Krieger
10 months
Congrats to @nsharp17 and @ryanolsonk for launching @retrodotapp !
@nsharp17
Nathan Sharp
10 months
Retro is here.
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Mike Krieger
8 months
Awesome to hear — it's been really fun seeing people share their own apps and writing to Artifact since we launched links.
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Mike Krieger
10 months
Had so much fun building this alongside the @Speechify_audio team. I've been using this a ton to listen to articles while I cook or walk.
@Artifact_News
ARTIFACT
10 months
Today we're launching the ability to listen to articles on Artifact, powered by @Speechify_audio . Choose from 30+ voices including fun, celebrity voices like Snoop Dogg and Gwyneth Paltrow. Available now on iOS, and coming soon to Android.
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Mike Krieger
1 year
Super excited for today's release. We've been testing internally for the past few weeks and I've loved seeing new articles at the top of my feed whenever my favorite writers post a new article.
@kevin
Kevin Systrom
1 year
New to Artifact: Follow Writers. We all have our favorite writers, now you can follow them on Artifact. We'll prioritize their articles at the top of feed. We believe in helping writers build an audience and giving more control to users.
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Mike Krieger
3 years
@annimaniac Have loved working with @davekashen — wonderful mix of head, heart & soul
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Mike Krieger
4 years
@chrismaddern @hemal worked out of the box, just had to use adb to push the Zoom APK on there; camera and mic worked without any tweaking
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Mike Krieger
4 years
@btaylor @TedLasso right on! it's been our favorite pandemic discovery by far
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Mike Krieger
4 years
Just launched on — if restaurants/cafes are running fundraisers for their staff, we now link to those, too. If we’re missing any please let us know at info @saveourfaves .org
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Mike Krieger
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The @LumaLabsAI team is one of the sharpest I’ve met; creating AI magic paired with a strong design and consumer focus
@LumaLabsAI
Luma AI
4 months
🔥 Introducing Genie 1.0, our first step towards building multimodal AI. Genie is a text-to-3d model capable of creating any 3d object you can dream of in under 10 seconds with materials, quad mesh retopology, variable polycount, and in all standard formats! Try it on web and in…
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4 years
Looks like nothing off the shelf exists. Ended up rolling my own using Airtable (hat tip @aron ). "Full Name" and "Household Name" are both derived columns based on the names.
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Mike Krieger
4 years
Tech non-profit I have huge respect for— @RecidivizOrg — is modeling the spread of COVID in prisons with prison-specific epidemiological models & analysis. They're hiring front-end engineers to build out the web side of their work; details here:
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Mike Krieger
1 year
GPT-4 over here (almost) crushing my Linguistics 100 question.
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