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Design Engineer @ RunwayML / Ex-Googler on Workspace / Labs / Research /Search

New York

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Joined October 2007

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Edwin Toh

2 months

It's been amazing to see how this small, elite, passionate team - Research, Engineering, Creative, Design, QA, Support, Product, Sales, Ops, basically everyone in the company worked together to launch our next generation model. Everyone's in it to do something that the users

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Gen-3 Alpha Text to Video is now available to everyone. A new frontier for high-fidelity, fast and controllable video generation. Try it now at

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Edwin Toh

4 months

@rakyll I think most people don't realize that Google has over 180,000 employees, and hundreds of teams / organizations. Each one have their own culture, priorities, and norms. I've been at 4 different teams, and saw for myself how different each one was.

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2 months

New @runwayml model dropping soon! The new model has been trained with descriptive, dense captions, enabling key-framing of scenes!

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2 months

It's amazing how far @figma pushed Slides. Instead of making it just another Slides app, it's now arguably established itself as the best in the category. Really impressed.

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Edwin Toh

4 months

Never thought I’d leave Google but an exciting new challenge came up and I knew I had to take it. Almost 6 years. 4 teams - Search, Research, X - the moonshot factory, Google Labs, and finally Workspace. Thank you again to the amazing people that I’ve worked with. ✌🏼

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4 years

"re-found" @vercel today after I checked out Zeit years ago. Moved all my websites from Firebase. DNS propagated almost immediately. Sweeeeet!

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Edwin Toh

4 months

My first contributions to Runway are live! The most visible one are some loading screen updates for Gen-2 that I worked on with @luoyyisvic as our onboarding project. We're introducing some tips while you wait for your generation, as well as a visual refresh. Thumbnails are

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2 months

It's here!

@runwayml

Runway

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Gen-3 Alpha Text to Video is now available to everyone. A new frontier for high-fidelity, fast and controllable video generation. Try it now at

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Edwin Toh

12 years

Creating Mobile Version for Your Backbone.js App using jQuery Mobile http://t.co/uirTG96z

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Edwin Toh

4 months

Before joining @runwayml , I thought it only did videos. In case you were like me, here's what else it does: - Background remove (images and video) - Background replace - Audio (incl Lip sync) - image generation - image to image transformations - image outpainting and inpainting

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Edwin Toh

4 years

Compared to Firebase (for my static sites): = Free = Custom Domains > Deploy from Git > Automatic Deploys > Supports Build Commands

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4 months

@rakyll Each team also undergoes different phases, either because of a reorg, or a change in focus. Everyone's experience will be different depending on all the factors above.

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Edwin Toh

4 months

AI can only be as good as the story and the person telling it. Thanks to these creators, I'm more committed than ever that what I'm doing can enable more people to tell their stories better.

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Edwin Toh

1 year

Something that the team has been working on for a while now finally launched! We need feedback to keep getting better so please try it and let us know what you like or dislike!

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Colaboratory

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✨ Today we're launching AI coding features to our Pro+ subscribers located in the United States, including natural language to code generation, code completion, and an integrated chatbot. We'd love to hear from you with positive examples of AI coding in Colab: please share! 1/

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Edwin Toh

4 months

Working on a product where members of our team are also power users is 💯. 30mins spent observing @iamneubert 's workflow today was so enlightening.

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Edwin Toh

2 months

Amazing to see the creations of the Runway CPP members using Gen-3. Very impressed by the inguity of the prompts. Gen-3 is the gift that keeps giving.

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Edwin Toh

2 months

But a colleague made a good point - it needs to work offline. Conference wifi sucks

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Edwin Toh

2 months

Ride in a Waymo ✅

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Edwin Toh

4 years

Excited to share my latest project at Google--Tone Transfer, an experiment with Magenta's DDSP. Transform your voice into instruments! Glad to have been part of this awesome and talented team that made this.

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Edwin Toh

2 months

Waiting for this guy I play ⚽️ with to start his talk @WarronBebster

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Edwin Toh

10 years

The Experiment Board is here! FREE tool to test startup ideas without wasting time or money http://t.co/cyDpzvyRf1 via @Lean #LeanStartup

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Edwin Toh

4 months

Liking this startup thing so far.

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Edwin Toh

2 years

Was still processing Google's layoffs last week and found out today that Work and Co had to make this hard decision as well. If we've worked together before, and you were affected, and if I can help in anyway, do reach out.

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Edwin Toh

4 months

@bindureddy I noticed that the cutoff date is 2 months before gpt-4-turbo

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Edwin Toh

4 months

After leaving the Google Workspace ecosystem, here's my verdict on the competition. Slack > GChat Zoom < Meet Still can't decide how Notion compares to Docs / Sheets. I feel like it's a Wiki / Directory of information instead of it being just an editor.

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Edwin Toh

4 months

The other "feature" is a UX update to how checkboxes behave in the Assets page, as well as a minor performance upgrade. Hoping to ship more features soon!

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Edwin Toh

2 months

Figma slides is crazy good.

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Edwin Toh

3 months

@Shpigford The keyboard repeat rate. I don't know why the default is so freaking slow.

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Edwin Toh

12 years

40+ Useful HTML5 Tutorials And Techniques http://t.co/EZI0qobo

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Edwin Toh

3 months

One thing that someone once mentioned to me was this boy scout's rule “Always leave the campground cleaner than you found it”. I've always tried to apply it to my work on codebases I touch since.

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Edwin Toh

6 years

Introducing ‘Baby Steps’ by Mathieu Badimon

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Edwin Toh

3 months

Got this question quite a bit recently: What is a design engineer? I think Design Engineers aren't easy to define, but I'll try to come to some traits of what I think defines one in the end. I'll begin by explaining how Google defines a UXE first... a 🧵

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Edwin Toh

2 months

@potetotes this is making me nostalgic. making geocities websites / vbulletin forum mods / making forum signatures, were my entryway to this world.

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Edwin Toh

2 months

what if we're the ones in fish tanks?

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Edwin Toh

1 year

Still get starstruck sometimes when I get a notification from one of the industry gurus who work at Google also requesting access to something I built at Google.

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Edwin Toh

2 months

@keeyeny Figma slides look amazing! Love the little details. Where do I learn more? Link is dead

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Figma Slides: Create Presentations & Slides for Every Occasion

Create custom presentations for any event with Figma Slides. Effortlessly design, customize, and share visually appealing slides to captivate your audience.

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Edwin Toh

8 years

Humbled to again be part of #AwwwardsJury2017

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Edwin Toh

6 years

Helped to teach some middle schoolers how to code at Google today.

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Edwin Toh

4 months

Would the @rabbit_hmi and @Humane have gotten a kinder review if they launched on Kickstarter/Indiegogo? Either way, initial reviews of both sound like they are Kickstarter projects more than finished products. I personally give a lot more leeway for projects I back on KS simply

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Edwin Toh

3 years

Big thanks @RebeccaSalois , @jessscon , @gabeclapper , @alexnortn , Maysam Moussalem, Meena Kaushik & @j3ffgray and everyone else involved!

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Edwin Toh

2 months

@runwayml @ #Config2024

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Edwin Toh

9 years

got the visa approved! I can finally confirm I'm moving back to NYC to rejoin @firstborn_nyc !

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Edwin Toh

3 years

Happy to share the other project I'm involved in that launched at #GoogleIO2021 - the updated #PAIRGuidebook ! It was an amazing team who put this together in a very short amount of time. #AI #ML

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Edwin Toh

9 years

Handy list of Apple Watch Apps ⌚️: New toys for your wrist! on @ProductHunt http://t.co/J7VoebAyrZ

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Edwin Toh

1 year

Helped a tiny bit to the AI parts of the IDX launch. Congrats on the launch, @romannurik @kirupa and the IDX team!

@googledevs

Google for Developers

1 year

Develop from anywhere, on any machine. 🎉 Introducing Project IDX, an experimental new project aimed at bringing your entire full-stack, multiplatform development workflow to the cloud. Learn more ➡️

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Edwin Toh

3 months

Found one thing that Zoom does better than Meet - threaded conversations during a call.

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Edwin Toh

11 years

collab screen sharing taken to the next level. - http://t.co/7xYoDThgFi

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Edwin Toh

1 year

Sharing my career journey here in case it might help inspire someone. I started coding when I was 13 years old, writing HTML on a foolscap paper in school and then transcribing them at home on my computer to see if I made any mistakes with my <td>s and <tr>s.

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Edwin Toh

2 months

Great visual.

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Edwin Toh

10 months

I've been at the forefront of GenAI thanks to my position at Google and also chancing upon a project that needed UX help from a group of HCI researchers at Google. We worked on a coding assistant using a LLM before CoPilot was announced.

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Edwin Toh

6 years

“Building the Google Photos Web UI” by @antin

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Edwin Toh

4 months

Took me a while to find it, but in case you were also trying to find this info: gpt-4o is only text and image input for now, select partners get audio and video capabilities first. "Developers can also now access GPT-4o in the API as a text and vision model. GPT-4o is 2x

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Edwin Toh

2 months

Just saw the with a knob dial on its case. 🎛️ Almost bought it just for this.

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Edwin Toh

1 year

looking forward to seeing more surfaces and features that are powered by Codey and help developers in various ways

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Google launches a GitHub Copilot competitor | TechCrunch

Google to launch AI-centric coding tools, including competitor to GitHub's Copilot, a chat tool for asking questions about coding and more.

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Edwin Toh

4 months

😢

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Edwin Toh

4 years

The Chromecast with Google TV has been a lifesaver for me during this 2 week quarantine in my hotel.

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Edwin Toh

9 years

Learn fundamental #UI #design skills you need to know in this new free e-course by @invisionapp and @uibreakfast :

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Edwin Toh

1 year

of good UX. But I still jumped on the chance to move to the US from Singapore by taking a paid internship when I was already a Senior Developer back then. This was not going to be the first time I moved downwards to move higher.

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Edwin Toh

2 months

Chrome 126 broke some stuff, if you've got 2 seconds, please upvote the 2 issues here:

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Edwin Toh

7 years

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Edwin Toh

4 months

Signed up for @voicenotesai and paid for the $50 lifetime subscription. We prototyped a similar idea at a summit (when I was at Google...) a few weeks back and found it especially useful if you already have a large history. Not too late for me to start taking notes I guess,

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Edwin Toh

10 years

Good to see a SG startup on @producthunt ! - Pie: Work chat that’s all signal, no noise http://t.co/ZnViAoXKqA

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Edwin Toh

10 years

“Why your previous developer was terrible” by @shamoons

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Edwin Toh

7 years

I just published “The Sound of Paper”

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Edwin Toh

2 years

Finally getting into the diffusion game on Colab. Can't wait to generate myself in the other "edwin-verses"

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Edwin Toh

1 year

Diablo4 came out on Friday and I've been googling for Rogue builds. No LLM can get you that information on launch day. The magic of community and knowledge sharing should not die.

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Edwin Toh

4 months

@loom just became my new favorite app

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Edwin Toh

3 years

Check out how to use the new PAIR Guidebook by following this workshop!

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Edwin Toh

2 months

@runwayml See more awesome generations and learn more about Gen-3 Alpha here

@runwayml

Runway

2 months

Introducing Gen-3 Alpha: Runway’s new base model for video generation. Gen-3 Alpha can create highly detailed videos with complex scene changes, a wide range of cinematic choices, and detailed art directions. (1/10)

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Edwin Toh

2 months

Plenty of people seem to be getting Covid again, but no one seems to be talking about it. Stay safe out there folks!

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Edwin Toh

2 months

I always thought I needed Claude Pro to use Artifacts for some reason. Today, I actually went to Claude to look at it closely, turn on the "feature preview" flag for Artifacts, and tried it out. I tried to ask it to write me some code next, no Artifacts side panel appeared.

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Edwin Toh

9 years

Steer: App for homesick nomads http://t.co/9s2dWDe5kQ via @edtoh on @ProductHunt http://t.co/E3T9xvOkZQ

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Edwin Toh

9 months

@popovicu94 @elonmusk People who bash it are still here (me included)

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Edwin Toh

7 years

Contentful is pretty amazing

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Edwin Toh

2 years

The project I spent most of my past year working on at Google got an 🏅Honorable Mention Case Study at CHI 2022. Really proud of the work the team has done and the impact it has had

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Edwin Toh

1 year

Fast-forward to 2016. I joined a product agency to officially work on products. I learnt a lot from the people from @workandco , and built great products like and MVPs with @embraer and Expa NYC.

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Edwin Toh

1 year

@addyosmani I remember a time when coding these transitions were such a pain! Awesome launch!

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Edwin Toh

6 years

As a #Webbys Judge, I’m looking forward to seeing your work. A heads up that the early deadline is this Friday Oct 26!

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Edwin Toh

4 months

It's liberating to not be tied down to any models / vendors.

@joaomdmoura

João Moura

4 months

So for everyone out there using crewAI for AI Agents, and leveraging OpenAI your agents just became 2x faster and 50% cheaper ;) This means we as a company now are just way more efficient now because we are model / vendor agnostic :D

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Edwin Toh

7 years

I just subscribed to Coindex. Check it out 👉 via @jashpetty

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Edwin Toh

2 months

@joshuantaylor I think there's a line that separates design and art, I think TE products are more art than design.

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Edwin Toh

7 years

I miss the old SourceTree icon.

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Edwin Toh

2 months

Fun throwback to my gotoAndPlay days listening to Jonathan Gay and Sho talk about flash @ #Config2024

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Edwin Toh

1 year

But one thing I could never get over was the constant debate between art vs design. I was the lead developer for a website that won the most awards ever in my career, but I couldn't get over the fact that it was simply not usable. That was the beginning of my relentless pursuit..

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Edwin Toh

1 year

I wasn't quite right on the mark but 3 years later, iOS heralded the death of Flash and the introduction of "HTML5". I jumped right in and was really enjoying myself creating some of the best experiences one can get on the web with some amazing designers.

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Edwin Toh

2 months

Enjoyed reading this paper Sonnet 3.5 is really outstanding when compared with the rest. Would have liked to see GPT-4 compared instead of GPT-4o though, since Gemini 1.5 Pro instead of Flash was included in the benchmarks.

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Research showing that vision language models (VLMs) fail on simple visual tasks that are easy for humans.

vlmsareblind.github.io

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Edwin Toh

9 years

woot woot! @airdeck congratulations on your promotion! you're a VP now!

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Edwin Toh

2 months

Just realized that this "meet the people" session which I took for granted as a thing in Singapore might just be a unique thing there. Any other countries have a system where elected members of the government meet the people weekly 1:1 to solve their issues?

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Edwin Toh

10 years

@woothemes my card got compromised shortly after I purchased this. Please look into your security.

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Edwin Toh

4 months

Blast from the past! Can't wait to see what they come up with.

@2advanced

2Advanced Studios

4 months

2Advanced Studios returns in 2024. 2Advanced is being reawakened with a new mission & journey for 2024 & beyond. Excited for the path ahead. - Original founding members Eric Jordan @ericjordan & Tony Novak #design #webdesign #interactive #creative

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Edwin Toh

4 months

OpenAI was always more about releasing models and APIs, but with other models like Llama 3 (which is open source) quickly catching up, it was inevitable that they will start to release their own apps / products. It'll be interesting to see how much their products evolve over

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Edwin Toh

6 years

The future!

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Edwin Toh

4 months

Are people going to become more comfortable at interrupting other people more often in a few months?

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Edwin Toh

10 years

Whatsrapp: Start texting some rappers. http://t.co/Mz7DRwqGqV via @edtoh on @producthunt http://t.co/RgsOso85l7

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Edwin Toh

4 years

Have you ever wondered what I do as a UX Engineer at Google? Here's a pretty good post that describes *some* of the things we do. (Co-written by my awesome colleague, friend and manager @mike_dory !)

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Edwin Toh

3 months

@JungleSilicon But isn't that what social media is for? /s

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Edwin Toh

1 year

2 years later, I fulfilled my lifelong dream of joining Google, working on Search. I'll stop here before continuing my looooong story in case I'm speaking to the void. 😂

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Edwin Toh

3 months

Disclaimer: I only vaguely know about these other ones: Frontend Lens - some of them write production code, mostly CSS, and javascript... their eye for design is what sets them apart from Frontend SWEs - which is very vague and subjective. Some of them design and build internal

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Edwin Toh

7 years

“Your Company’s Culture is Who You Hire, Fire, & Promote” @DrSepah

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The other one is the Cuckoo rice cooker.

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