Josh Carpenter

@joshcarpenter

UX Lead, WebVR/AR at Google. Previously: Lead, . Co-creator, .

San Francisco
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Joined December 2008
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  1. Retweeted
    Sep 15

    The most interesting news and predictors of the future are often buried in job descriptions. I wonder why is hiring a WebVR developer 👀

    BigScreenVR is hiring a fullstack developer if anyone's interested! It's a great opportunity and a highly engaging product.
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  2. 30 minutes ago

    Civilization 7 looks -amazing-

    Torre Scola. Built in the early 17th Century originally acted as a military building before being abandoned in the 1800's. Scheduled for demolition in 1915, it was instead saved and converted into a lighthouse.
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  3. 32 minutes ago

    Meanwhile back home

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  4. 10 hours ago

    My weekend. I simultaneously love and hate writing.

    Writing is simultaneously hard and a bit too easy: very easy to just blah blah blah, very hard to write concisely and effectively to a point.
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  5. Retweeted
    Sep 14

    A former colleague showed me this 40 yr old memo from ’s 1st head of marketing, the late Rob Strasser. Still holds up today.

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  6. Retweeted
    Sep 14

    In seriousness, I have a hard time believing that it’s possible to plan economically over a thirty year period lmao if you think it’s remotely possible to predict life or the shape of money in 2048

    Retweet this if your retirement plan is basically “Civilization will probably crumble before I’m 65 and money will be meaningless anyway.”
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  7. Retweeted
    Sep 13

    GeckoView 🦎👀 is a fast, WebView-like API to interact with our Gecko browser engine. We've been working on bringing it to and it will soon come to other products as well! Details on

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  8. Sep 14

    This is good content. Maybe cried a little bit with laughter at the chimp part.

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  9. Retweeted
    Sep 12

    We think about simplification not so much as a goal in itself, but instead as a strategy for making Chrome and the web more usable.

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    Can't get enough of the new redesign? Check out this interview with lead designer to learn how the changes make browsing even better →
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  10. Sep 14

    Goddamn you Dead Cells. I had stuff to do.

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  11. Sep 13

    I really really like the newer cleaner look of Chrome. Kudos and Chrome UX!

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  12. Retweeted
    Sep 13

    When nothing else will justify the senseless death of a citizen at the hands of a wayward police officer, quick, reach for the American drug war. For half a century, that horror show has justified damn near anything -- especially against citizens of color. Christ almighty.

    DEVELOPING: Search warrant: Marijuana found in Botham Jean’s apartment after deadly shooting
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  13. Sep 13

    University of British Columbia is tough to beat for natural beauty. Stuck out into the ocean like a thumb, thick forest buffer between it and city to the east, sandy beaches wrapping all around, wall of mountains to the north...

    And finally for tonight, the view from my office when I taught at UBC:
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  14. Sep 13

    I think about this a lot, when it comes to subject or rising sea levels. It’s not just the sea covering the land... It’s what that land puts back into the sea.

    The Carolinas' toxic stew: Florence approaches a region rife with Superfund sites, chemical plants, coal ash — and thousands of industrial hog farms with lagoons filled with pig waste.
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  15. Retweeted
    Sep 13

    . takes us behind the scenes of supporting AR in the NYTimes app. Cool to read how they made it happen without Unity/Unreal (!) and the pros/cons from iterating on native, web rendered, and hybrid approaches h/t

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  16. Retweeted
    Sep 10

    In so many ways my colleagues' description of Xinjiang feels like a foreshadowing of the world we could all be living in in the future if we don't take human rights more seriously.

    Interviewees said QR codes like this are installed on the walls of their homes in Xinjiang, which allows officials to get instant access to the residents’ personal information. See new report:
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    Sep 10

    before and after you discover the subreddit for a hobby

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  18. Retweeted
    Sep 9

    New animation component merged into master. On a stress test taking advantage of direct property animations, 45FPS > 15FPS with large memory savings. -1000LOC due to more compact syntax.

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  19. Retweeted
    Sep 7

    This is what Nintendo's Splatoon game looked like, long before the set and character design. First consideration: is the mechanic fun? See more from on this weekend.

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  20. Sep 9

    Hat tip

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