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Darin Fisher
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It feels good when you find your code in your competitors help documents. Like you'd think they'd try to hide it better then that. It's nice to know who they take inspiration from.
Spot on!
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Arc Zaps are so empowering. Like, I have the knowledge to create a quick chrome extension to remove things from a page, but the ability to just click an element and remove it means I actually DO it. Hate the twitter "discover more" section? zap that shit
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No exaggeration, Arc Browser has CHANGED MY LIFE. It’s like someone came into my house and did a deep clean and now I can find my keys every morning AND the water for my coffee boils in 8 seconds which feels scientifically impossible but here we are, thank you 🙏🏻
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Boosts 2.0 has been a lot of fun to work on, and it’s been neat to see what we could make possible. The color wheel and advanced sliders give you just enough control while still making it easy to create cool things. Hope you enjoy playing with it!
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The advanced color panel gives you control over the saturation mix and lightness range. Controls include contrast, lightness and how much of the original saturation gets preserved.
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The lightness values are not directly specified by the color wheel since it just represents a cross-section of the HSL color space. Instead, we vary the output lightness slightly so that absolute whites and absolutes blacks in the page can take on some color.
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The color wheel also lets you choose a saturation value (how far the dots are from the center). The output saturation is a mix of this value and the page color’s saturation value.
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All colors on the page are mapped to this range of hues. The lighter the page color, the closer its output hue will be to the primary point. The darker the page color, the closer its output hue will be the secondary point.
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As you move the wheel around, you are selecting the hue range. You can adjust the angle between the primary and secondary points.
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Under the hood, the color transform happens in HSL space. HSL stands for hue, saturation and lightness. See what wikipedia has to say (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSL_and_H) for more details.
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Of course there can still be some fun / unintended effects. Emojis for example also get color transformed as they are just text. We decided not to try to fix this. Is it a bug or a feature?
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Instead we implemented this as a feature of the rendering engine, which made it much simpler and more performant. An optional color filter is applied to the painting of a subset of elements.
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Notice how images and videos are excluded from the color transform. You can’t achieve this effect so easily using just CSS (see for yourself: google.com/search?q=exclu) without also restructuring the DOM or writing some expensive JS.
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The color wheel tool lets you easily transform the colors of the page to the range you specify, and you can see how it changes in real time as you drag the wheel around.
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A really fun feature of Boosts 2.0 (launched today in Arc) is how easy it makes it to change the color palette of web sites. And color for me makes a big difference in how the web feels.
Here’s a peek under the hood at how it all works!
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Sad to hear it :-( It means a lot to me to have been part of this journey w/ the gang at Neeva. Wish you all the best on what comes next!
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We are shutting down @neeva's consumer search engine.
This was a very tough decision that took into account lots of things: our business progress so far, the current funding environment and our ability to continue to grow quickly in this vastly changed search environment. We… Show more
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So fun!
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The interactions people spontaneously have on reflect.net are so cute. I think my favorite is the little mouse celebration every 5 minutes when a puzzle is solved.
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Y'all pay attention - is crushing it at the innovation game. Even their changelogs are exciting.
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I just spent a week backing up my claim that 's Arc is "the most transformative app I've used in decades" by writing a 7100-word article illustrated with 35 screenshots.
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Killer op — can’t recommend working with Hursh and Josh enough
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We’re hiring a Technical Advisor to support our CTO (@hursh) & Head of Engineering (@dolapo) on special projects related to engineering @browsercompany.
Requires “nothing is beneath you if it helps the team” attitude, technical exp., and founder mentality.
DM @hursh to apply!
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Last time I was this excited about a browsers was in 2008, when Chrome launched.
Arc has my ❤️. So many simple yet thoughtful sense features makes Arc the best browser in town. Get it
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"It’s more powerful than your homescreen — it can launch not just Notion but a specific Notion page, or a single YouTube video, or the exact file you’re looking for." -
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A case study in what it looks like when a team focuses on quality over quantity.
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Today we’re launching the first version of Arc for iOS.
This is the next chapter of Arc being your home on the internet, wherever you are.
More below on some of my favorite details… 
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We think in projects, goals, and people. So why are our smartphones built around apps❓❓❓
new essay from 🆙
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The cat is out of the bag,
Such a beautifully 🤩 and thoughtfully designed browser. It carries the promise and delight of the desktop into the mobile app. Such details, look at that glow at the top when you start to browse.
I love you 😘
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The Membership Team at is hiring for Customer Success!
You're a wonderful fit if you
💻have experience on a success team, supporting a software product
🫶are empathetic toward user problems & needs
🤔 love problem solving & multitasking
jobs.lever.co/thebrowser-com
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woooo okay
we're opening product eng roles at
our last five product eng hires were
+ you?!
love iOS/Swift, sweat the craft details, and happiest prototyping with very little info?
DM me please!!
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Enjoying my life with Arc from
Kudos for making a new browser experience. Loving it!
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got access to Arc from this week and have been using it daily for work. not gonna lie, i don't see myself going back to chrome anytime soon. the Peek feature alone is worth it's weight in gold
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I know I've tweeted about this before, but it bears repeating: 's Arc browser is a way better browser than whatever you're using unless you're already using it, I promise. The web works better with it.
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Yeah, I used to marvel at the how composable that web was... it's the double-edged sword of so much of the security & privacy work that has gone into the platform. 3rd party cookies and iframes also enable some amazing stuff--unfortunately also a lot of bad stuff :-(
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Take: I think cache partitioning (developer.chrome.com/en/blog/http-c) was a big misstep for the web.
I understand the privacy arguments, and it seems like they can be mitigated.
But I also think that enabling developers is more important. In the old days, developers could build large…1
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We have big dreams for the future of the internet — and it all starts with an ✨Internet Computer✨
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You've heard it from...basically everyone on Twitter so far, but just wanted to say that Arc from is the most fun I've had with a software product in a long time.
You should definitely give it a go.
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Have now personally converted five different people to Arc Browser, feels very weird to be excited to tell people about a browser but seriously this one is a game changer
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1️⃣: Generative AI is usually about text OR images? We said: “why not both?”
Neeva Gist: a rich visual search experience with both text and images.
Mobile friendly! Bringing the joy of AI to the next billion people!
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And while we usually end updates here there’s more to do!
We thought we’d share how we sketch out SwiftUI views at Browser Co (live session, mess ups & all) and share the code.
Would love to see how y’all would implement it <3
gist.github.com/jasdev/9e35b9f
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