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Andy Hertzfeld

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product·Lightcone·AUGUST 28, 2026

Andy wrote an icon editor... you could just toggle the bits and you could see a greatly enlarged image as well as what the icon looked like at 72 dpi... it automatically generated the hex code for an icon which I could then type in and see the image on the screen.

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hire·Lightcone·AUGUST 28, 2026

Andy Hertzfeld... recruited her to Apple... wrote the icon editor that made her work possible

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mention·Lightcone·AUGUST 28, 2026

Don't show him one thing because he'll say he doesn't like it because it maybe forces you to go try and do it again and be better. But if you show a few things then he can be involved and say that something is terrible but still pick something.

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