Samir Mody Profile Banner
Samir Mody Profile
Samir Mody

@jedimody

Followers
1,280
Following
293
Media
27
Statuses
215
Explore trending content on Musk Viewer
@jedimody
Samir Mody
1 year
Today we’re shipping @arcinternet ’s newest (& highly requested) feature: vertical split views! Starting from its origins, this came from a personal need of viewing multiple canvas-based apps without sacrificing horizontal space 🌞
45
47
735
@jedimody
Samir Mody
1 year
The @browsercompany performance pod is focused on getting Arc to feel f a s t 🏎 And early results are in! Our latest release makes opening the command bar 45% faster (and switching tabs 30%!) Here are the p95 & p50 for the metrics we measured from initial to latest versions.
Tweet media one
14
15
209
@jedimody
Samir Mody
3 years
3 weeks till daylight savings 😱 and the solution to all my personal problems
2
12
131
@jedimody
Samir Mody
2 years
finally off the waitlist!! @browsercompany
Tweet media one
15
1
119
@jedimody
Samir Mody
1 year
the best tab never made. my favorite feature yet. no longer have to leave my existing tab context to take a ~peek~
@browsercompany
The Browser Company
1 year
Beauty is in the 👁️ of the browser Presenting... Peek!
176
309
6K
4
0
75
@jedimody
Samir Mody
6 months
it's been a journey. very excited for the coming year
@browsercompany
The Browser Company
6 months
ACT II. A New Computer. 01.30.24 See you in January
139
205
3K
1
2
75
@jedimody
Samir Mody
3 years
Nothing but smiles last night @browsercompany
Tweet media one
1
2
67
@jedimody
Samir Mody
3 years
if there's one thing i've learned in building a browser, it's that there are tons of tiny details you have to get right for a delightful experience. While we're improving so much at @browsercompany , I stumbled upon this little gem in Chrome with status text and have to admire
3
0
59
@jedimody
Samir Mody
4 years
it's been 1 year since joining @browsercompany . leaving @Facebook wasn't easy for me at the time, but this has been the most transformative year of my career, and I can't imagine doing anything differently
4
0
49
@jedimody
Samir Mody
1 year
Nothing can demonstrate this more clearly than ASCII art…
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
2
0
46
@jedimody
Samir Mody
3 years
Eng at @browsercompany : Let’s cut our first release branch ever on Friday afternoon. Github:
Tweet media one
0
3
42
@jedimody
Samir Mody
1 year
This feature represents one more step in our journey to innovate on how you can view & experience the web. ✨ Our dream is for Arc to be an intuitive canvas where you can place content however it best fits your workflow ✨ (+ we're hiring!)
1
1
40
@jedimody
Samir Mody
1 year
With time to spare one week, I prototyped it over a few days -- and low and behold when we gave @arcinternet a sneak peek, *a lot* of you also wanted this feature!
Tweet media one
2
0
32
@jedimody
Samir Mody
1 year
Really proud of what we were able to accomplish in a short amount of time. And equally excited to continue building on this ✨
@adamstern_
Adam Stern
1 year
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… 🧵
125
155
2K
3
0
32
@jedimody
Samir Mody
4 years
Excited to share what I've been up to with @browsercompany
@joshm
Josh Miller
4 years
Meet the @browsercompany ! We're building a new web browser – equipped for the way we use the internet in 2020: If you think about it, our web browsers still do what they did twenty-five years ago. Feels like it's time for a change! Here's our story...
49
58
699
0
6
30
@jedimody
Samir Mody
3 years
continually surprised at how much people love features that allow them to personalize their software and yet how few are actually available
2
0
30
@jedimody
Samir Mody
3 years
at facebook/instagram, i never felt that my day-to-day work was existentially important to the company (understandably). i feel that every day at @browsercompany . its nice
0
0
29
@jedimody
Samir Mody
3 years
Humans. Also humans.
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
0
1
28
@jedimody
Samir Mody
1 year
So we set about getting it shipped - no easy feat in a browser, even one in Swift. Challenge #1 was breaking all the assumptions that splits are horizontal in Arc. We represent split view visually in *many* places — which now all needed to render splits in multiple orientations
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
Tweet media three
2
0
27
@jedimody
Samir Mody
9 months
never a dull day here at Browser Company ✨
@_DanielSinclair
Daniel Sinclair
9 months
I'm ready to get MAXED. This deranged QVC style product launch is so good🤌
Tweet media one
3
19
185
0
0
29
@jedimody
Samir Mody
2 years
A public compliment from a sibling should never be taken lightly
@rishmody
Rishi Mody ツ
2 years
it’s rare that a single piece of software can transform how you think about the internet but the folks @browsercompany really have created something special
Tweet media one
7
4
213
2
0
25
@jedimody
Samir Mody
1 year
Challenge #2 was adapting Arc’s custom split view container to account for multiple orientations. To do this, we re-rewrote the layout logic and despite its complexity, it all boiled down to... one simple enum
Tweet media one
1
0
23
@jedimody
Samir Mody
3 years
My 18 yr old self would never have predicted that the “how we work” part of a company requires just as much thought and attention as the actual product you build
1
1
21
@jedimody
Samir Mody
1 year
Challenge #3 was finding an intuitive interaction for creating a vertical split. Our split view drag & drop interactions require finely tuned “drop targeting” logic to make it feel like Arc can accept a drop wherever you had in mind. So we added more!
1
0
21
@jedimody
Samir Mody
3 years
did we spend more time on choosing the song or building the product, really hard to say
@joshm
Josh Miller
3 years
Just setting up my brwsr 🔊 @browsercompany
46
53
1K
0
1
20
@jedimody
Samir Mody
1 year
This next milestone, we'll keep chipping away but also shift focus to memory, battery & CPU. Shoutout to the pod working hard on this @adamstern_ , @j_l_kelly , @thisIsSebM , Callan, and Andrew. Seb said it best, we just won't stop!
@thisIsSebM
Sebastien Marchand
1 year
We're just getting started! We won't stop until Arc is the most performant browser by a wide margin!
2
1
52
1
0
18
@jedimody
Samir Mody
3 years
can't think of a better set of people to work with and learn from! 🙌
@joshm
Josh Miller
3 years
Meet the @browsercompany 's newest investors <3 Zoom's @ericsyuan Stripe's @patrickc Instagram's @mikeyk Salesforce's @btaylor LinkedIn's @reidhoffman Coinbase's @emiliemc GitHub's @natfriedman Facebook's @fidjissimo ...and many more heroes: ⛅️
24
31
418
0
0
17
@jedimody
Samir Mody
2 years
the hardest part about startups is choosing the name
@browsercompany
The Browser Company
2 years
it's called Arc
226
417
5K
1
0
16
@jedimody
Samir Mody
4 years
Elevator opens. Seeing a family in it, I decide to let it pass. Family: “Come on in, we’re an antibody family.” new york, 2020
0
0
14
@jedimody
Samir Mody
1 year
And there’s more to do. Last milestone we focused on improving the speed of interactions by: - Shipping metrics to understand our baselines + impact (e.g. user interaction to expected visual update) - Improving our architecture and refactoring features to be more efficient
1
0
14
@jedimody
Samir Mody
3 years
NY is alive
Tweet media one
0
0
14
@jedimody
Samir Mody
3 years
Mobile development is 90% learning how to put things in a list.. and 10% writing abstractions making it easier to put things in a list
0
0
13
@jedimody
Samir Mody
5 months
just another day in the neighborhood
Tweet media one
0
0
13
@jedimody
Samir Mody
3 years
internal poll at @browsercompany shows we use the 🙏 for more than just the "pray" subtext Slack suggests. more like thank you, grateful, and high five
2
0
12
@jedimody
Samir Mody
2 years
👀
@browsercompany
The Browser Company
2 years
Coming Soon
Tweet media one
40
61
2K
0
0
12
@jedimody
Samir Mody
3 years
why is this so satisfying
1
0
12
@jedimody
Samir Mody
3 years
Sunday morning in brooklyn. I love it
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
0
0
11
@jedimody
Samir Mody
4 years
the amount of fun I have in a neighborhood of NYC is inversely proportional to the height of the buildings there
0
0
10
@jedimody
Samir Mody
3 years
my brother is more talented than me (and therefore the favorite child)
@rishmody
Rishi Mody ツ
3 years
master of my burger captain of my fries aka my pièce de résistance
Tweet media one
0
1
13
2
0
11
@jedimody
Samir Mody
3 years
Wikipedia is probably my most used tool on the internet. Props if anyone works there
1
0
11
@jedimody
Samir Mody
4 years
when you drank too much coffee and want to tweet but have nothing to say 😅
0
1
11
@jedimody
Samir Mody
3 years
my dad retires today. ~40 yrs and two (tech) companies and very happy. meanwhile, i got antsy at my first job after only a couple years..
0
0
11
@jedimody
Samir Mody
3 years
Adding a little drop shadow and some rounded corners truly fixes everything
0
0
11
@jedimody
Samir Mody
3 years
That first sip of coffee on a Saturday morning feeling 🤌
0
1
11
@jedimody
Samir Mody
2 years
@jasdev @browsercompany aaaand it's been the best year, excited for more to come!!💙
1
0
10
@jedimody
Samir Mody
1 year
Fun fact, @dustin actually designed "the shelf" for MacOS, but lo and behold it found its way onto iOS instead 😅
@adamstern_
Adam Stern
1 year
We took this concept further, offering six custom app icons that come bundled with a default theme. @jedimody built a beautiful dock to switch between them (👀 those icon reflections!)
7
1
118
0
0
10
@jedimody
Samir Mody
3 years
another day, another random thing being towed up the east river
Tweet media one
0
0
10
@jedimody
Samir Mody
3 years
At some point, I stopped getting life advice from Yahoo Answers. unclear if i'm better off for it
1
0
10
@jedimody
Samir Mody
3 years
i've always felt "git blame" was a little harsh
2
0
10
@jedimody
Samir Mody
5 months
@pixelDahn Hi there. I'm an engineer at Browser Co. Sorry to hear you had perf issues on Arc. Would love to know if there were specific scenarios that are slow? We're trying to improve! And was it on Mac or Windows?
1
0
9
@jedimody
Samir Mody
3 years
a very optimistic loading state
Tweet media one
0
0
9
@jedimody
Samir Mody
3 years
imagine if there was a verified badge emoji. the world would be chaos
1
1
9
@jedimody
Samir Mody
3 years
Some days I wonder when Browser Company will have it’s first Reply-All email controversy. That’s when I’ll know we’ve made it 😅
0
0
8
@jedimody
Samir Mody
4 years
There’s something therapeutic about combing a bookstore until you find the exact book you were looking for
1
0
8
@jedimody
Samir Mody
4 years
No better feeling than when this works
Tweet media one
0
0
8
@jedimody
Samir Mody
3 years
🙌🏽
@rishmody
Rishi Mody ツ
3 years
hello i just moved to new york (!) and don’t really know anyone so if anybody wants to be friends* lmk *will also settle for periodically texting each other “let’s get coffee soon!” and we never get coffee
16
0
88
0
0
8
@jedimody
Samir Mody
4 years
ironically, I wish I could pinch-to-zoom on screen shares in Zoom
0
0
7
@jedimody
Samir Mody
2 years
@ryepastrami @rishmody @browsercompany She definitely pulled some strings
1
0
6
@jedimody
Samir Mody
1 year
@thisIsSebM yessir!!
0
0
6
@jedimody
Samir Mody
4 years
“Add to Cart” just doesn’t feel the same
0
0
6
@jedimody
Samir Mody
3 years
@rishmody The internet is a double edged sword
1
0
6
@jedimody
Samir Mody
3 years
Kaws exhibit, Brooklyn museum. Would recommend
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
1
0
6
@jedimody
Samir Mody
3 years
0
0
5
@jedimody
Samir Mody
3 years
Wondering what Clippy is up to these days
Tweet media one
1
0
5
@jedimody
Samir Mody
3 years
congrats @_BenHQ and @contrahq ! i remember you getting energy around this idea years ago, so awesome to see this become a reality!
@_BenHQ
ben
3 years
🚀 It's launch day @contrahq and we have some exciting things to share with the world. First up, Contra has raised a $14.5M Series A led by @sarahleary + @Unusual_VC and @twang + @jomayra_herrera + @CowboyVC + @AtelierVentures Read more about it here 🚀
14
28
155
1
0
5
@jedimody
Samir Mody
5 months
@technologypoet Hi! I'm an engineer at Browser Co. Would love to know where perf has been painful in Arc. We're continuing to work on improving and any feedback would be helpful
0
0
5
@jedimody
Samir Mody
3 years
looked up the original unicode consortium proposal and "person with folded hands" had alternative suggestions of "sorry" and "please" 🤔 i have too much time on my hands 🙏
Tweet media one
0
0
5
@jedimody
Samir Mody
3 years
how it started how it's going
Tweet media one
Tweet media two
0
0
4
@jedimody
Samir Mody
4 years
also, #1 on Product Hunt today 👀👀👀
0
0
4
@jedimody
Samir Mody
3 years
monday mornings at @browsercompany are meant for configuring your terminal
@alexandracoding
Alexandra
3 years
My ZSH theme is very closely tied to my personal identity
1
0
12
1
0
4
@jedimody
Samir Mody
3 years
We can put a rover on Mars but a ship goes sideways and we’ve got nothing
0
0
4
@jedimody
Samir Mody
4 years
TouchID on the power button of the new iPad 😱😷
0
0
4
@jedimody
Samir Mody
4 years
Is the Apple Watch worth it?
3
0
3
@jedimody
Samir Mody
4 years
@bthdonohue @joshm We got you 😉
0
0
3
@jedimody
Samir Mody
3 years
we've come a loooong way from that 3 bedroom converted to 5 bedroom apartment in bk 😂
1
0
3
@jedimody
Samir Mody
8 months
@Anandumbb thanks for the info. We'd love to setup a call with one of our performance engineers if you're available. Someone from @ArcMembership should reach out in your DMs! We'd love to resolve this issue for you
1
0
2
@jedimody
Samir Mody
3 years
@freialobo one tweet at a time 😅
0
0
3
@jedimody
Samir Mody
3 years
@alexandracoding @codeblue87 @jasdev @Connor @tuple i have fomo that i wasn't in this picture
0
0
3
@jedimody
Samir Mody
1 year
@jorilallo Yeah definitely. I want that too! We're thinking about that now and should have more ways of leveraging Peek very soon
0
0
3
@jedimody
Samir Mody
3 years
@Connor 🙏🙏🙏
0
0
2
@jedimody
Samir Mody
3 months
@iambrianoconnor @arcinternet @browsercompany @joshm Thanks for letting us know. Glad the issue resolved itself. Let us know if it happens again
1
0
2
@jedimody
Samir Mody
4 years
when Notion erases all your work for the day and you want to scream
2
0
2
@jedimody
Samir Mody
6 months
@NafetsWirth Hi I’m an Eng at browser co. Sorry about this. I’ll check in with @ArcMembership to investigate
1
0
1
@jedimody
Samir Mody
1 year
@sahandnayebaziz thank you! 🙏
0
0
1
@jedimody
Samir Mody
3 months
@iambrianoconnor @arcinternet @browsercompany @joshm Often times these kinds of issues are related to extensions. If it happens again, it’s worth disabling extensions and restarting Arc and seeing if it fixes the issue
0
0
2
@jedimody
Samir Mody
8 months
@Anandumbb Hello, I'm an engineer on Arc. Sorry you're experiencing this. Does this issue reproduce in Incognito windows as well? Also, have you by any chance updated any flags in arc://flags ?
1
0
2
@jedimody
Samir Mody
1 year
@0xAsync @browsercompany sorry to hear you're having issues. DMing you to get more info so that we can improve!
0
0
2
@jedimody
Samir Mody
3 years
@jorilallo @SlackHQ turn off for me too please! 😅
2
0
2
@jedimody
Samir Mody
3 years
@rishmody I feel like you and @nateparrott would get along really well
1
0
2
@jedimody
Samir Mody
7 months
@anquetil Hi I’m an engineer at Browser Co. If you close all windows and open the same tabs in an incognito window, do you observe the same issues?
1
0
1
@jedimody
Samir Mody
2 years
@benadam11 @brianmichel @browsercompany Hey Ben! To add on to Brian's suggestion, you can also click on the URL bar to modify the existing page too! Effectively the same as ⌘L in case you want a mouse entry point
0
0
2
@jedimody
Samir Mody
8 months
@jasdev @ErinBoehmer Congratulations!! Very happy for you both 🙌🏽
1
0
1
@jedimody
Samir Mody
3 years
@freialobo Counting down the days
0
0
2
@jedimody
Samir Mody
1 year
@jacobolenick Hey Jacob, I'm an engineer at Browser Company. Sorry to hear about your issues. DMing you to get more info and hopefully resolve this issue for you
0
0
2
@jedimody
Samir Mody
6 months
@ElianCodes @rickbutterfield Hi I’m an engineer at browser company. Sorry about this. It’s is on our radar. Unfortunately you will need to disable ad block on YouTube for it to run smoothly for now
1
0
1
@jedimody
Samir Mody
1 year
0
0
2
@jedimody
Samir Mody
4 years
@danshipper wonder how it'll change with winter...
1
0
2
@jedimody
Samir Mody
5 months
@jeffreymack @arcinternet Hi! I'm an engineer at Browser Co. Sorry about that. Is this still occurring? And any specific repro steps triggering it
1
0
1