Garrett Murray

@garrettmurray
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✦ Founder & Managing Director of Karbon
✦ iOS, video games, keyboards, tech, he/him
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Companyhttps://karbon.agency
Webloghttps://karbonbased.io
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Past 7 days:

Karbon 16-year anniversary 🎉
15-year wedding anniversary 🎉
My mother started chemotherapy 💉
Kiddo with the flu 😷
Flat tire 🛞
Worked about 60 hours 🫠
Cranked out some terrific product requirements 😎
Played a little Marathon 🎮

Fuck cancer. Proud of my mom. Kiddo is feeling much better.

@dpcounsell I touched on ARC Raiders in the post—my son and I have put a LOT of time into the game and really enjoy it. I think for me personally, the aesthetic and shooting feel of Marathon is my preference, but I'm just glad we have two mainstream extraction shooters that are so fun to play for so many people!
Yesterday, Bungie released their new game, Marathon. Having spent thousands of hours in Destiny and Destiny 2 in the past 10 years, I wrote a long post today about how I’m all-in on Marathon and hoping Bungie can make this game a success: https://karbonbased.io/posts/2026/03/betting-on-bungie
Karbon Based — Betting on Bungie

Karbon Based is the internet home of Garrett Murray. Garrett is the Founder & Managing Director of Karbon, a mobile apps design and development agency. His current interests include mechanical keyboards, video games, technology and photography.

Karbon Based
Today’s our 15-year wedding anniversary. Last night I worked until 1AM when our son—who has the flu and feels terrible—woke up my wife, which made it impossible for her to fall back asleep. I didn’t fall asleep until 4AM. Now I’m downing espresso during meetings while my wife fails to nap. 15 years!
It’s 2026 and we’re back to Apple’s biggest display size being 27 inches. What a disappointment. I don’t understand why we’re permanently locked into the idea that 27 inches is the biggest a display needs to be.
@nazhamid Thank you! From the start (and continuing to this day) you have been an inspiration. I appreciate you and all of your amazing work, it drives me to make better software.

@beep Thank you so much, Ethan. I still remember when we launched too, though I'll admit I'm starting to have trouble remembering large parts of the middle! Part of the reason I enjoy writing posts like this is forcing myself to go down memory lane and recollect on all the insane, amazing stuff we've done.

Appreciate you, as always.

Over the weekend, we celebrated Karbon’s 16-year anniversary. I wrote a little bit about this milestone and what a journey it has been: https://karbonbased.io/posts/2026/03/sixteen
Karbon Based — Sixteen

Karbon Based is the internet home of Garrett Murray. Garrett is the Founder & Managing Director of Karbon, a mobile apps design and development agency. His current interests include mechanical keyboards, video games, technology and photography.

Karbon Based

@TrentWalton Been listening on repeat, it's so good!

One request for the future: While I absolutely love all the amazing art on each single, I would love an official Echo Wolf collection album(s) at some point that has, say, all the singles from the past N years. Only selfishly because I want to load up one curated-by-you album of all your awesome work and play the whole thing through without relying on a playlist I create or an Apple Music "station" which sometimes just loads random music.

Between helping them find a lost shoe near the slide or just ending up at the same restaurant down the street a table over, it was always fun to see their rapidly growing family and interact with James and his wife as fellow parents. I’m so sorry for his family to have to go on without him.