vietthan

2020-01-29: https://shopify.engineering/react-native-future-mobile-shopi... ("After years of native mobile development, we’ve decided to go full steam ahead building all of our new mobile apps using React Native.")

2021-11-08: https://shopify.engineering/high-performance-hydrogen-powere... ("The future of commerce is dynamic, contextual, and personalized. Hydrogen is a React-based framework for building custom and creative storefronts powered by Shopify’s platform and APIs.")

2025-01-13: https://shopify.engineering/five-years-of-react-native-at-sh... ("React Native has come a long way in the last 5 years and a lot of limitations that led people to not adopt it simply don’t exist anymore. If you haven’t tried using RN in a while, now would be a good time to revisit it.")

2025-09-05: https://shopify.engineering/react-native-new-architecture ("We successfully migrated two of our largest apps, Shopify Mobile and Shopify Point of Sale (POS) to React Native's New Architecture")

2026-09-10: https://shopify.engineering/back-to-native ("React Native was working well for us, and it remains an excellent framework. But since then, coding models have gotten dramatically better, and for our apps and our team, building the same feature in Swift and Kotlin no longer carries the cost it used to.")

^ to show the timeline of things.

This is pretty cool, and one thing would really help out a layman like me would be maybe a summary/top-line-conclusions that you found as part of your reverse engineering at the beginning of the post.

Reminds me of artists, how do artists stand out when photography can do better capture of reality (and easier, and cheaper, etc.) than artists can. Artists had to re-invent (or re-discovered, re-focused, etc.) themselves in all kinds of ways like cubism, impressionism, surrealism, etc.

Would coding in [brainfuck](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck) be the marker of good engineers?

In the end, the criteria remains the same. The engineers that creates products other people would pay for. The engineers that can convince executives to pay them or let them do this and that freely. The engineers that are thought leaders and have wide audiences.

Anyway, at the micro level, I think "How to How" is still important. I believe in developers that can talk about their workflow in detail, how it evolved over time, etc. Really good engineers invest in the workflows of themselves and others. That's my benchmark before and still is even now.

I actually would argue that Hashimoto "left" earlier. He "stepped down" from the executive team July 2021 and became an individual contributor then. He likely lost interest/power a long time before 2023.

https://www.hashicorp.com/en/blog/mitchell-s-new-role-at-has...

The first machine learning model trained in space was done in 2021. Makes for great headlines that goes all around the world though.

https://georges.fyi/opssat/first-machine-learning-models-tra...

In a way, is the author advocating that the best way to get out of the rat race is to win at it?

Also, looks like the author is very different from the typical high school aged person. The author is clearly intelligent and highly motivated, they're also able to maintain good relationships with the people around them (teachers, internet friends, etc.), but if it was so easy, we would see more well-adjusted early graduates of the education system.

TIL there is an organization for fraud examiners and that they have a podcast!

Top 5 frauds apparently:

1. Boeing to plead guilty to fraud in US probe of fatal 737 MAX crashes [1] - btw apparently criminal charges being dropped by DOJ [2]

2. Truong My Lan facing death row after embezzling $12 billion from Vietnam's bank SCB [3] - btw apparently now it's only 30 years [4]

[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/boeing-pl...

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4ge0lpqpyro

[3] https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/06/asia/vietnam-truong-my-lan-de...

[4] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/vietnam-death-sentence-tycoon-t...

"We visit New York City public schools to give you the inside story you can't find anywhere else."

Hey guys, I sit next to George who is a real driving force in anything he does, including this one. He's letting me have the upvotes for this one but the GitHub project page is: https://github.com/olafurw/opssat-doom/tree/main

Hey, looking for a source for "about half the US economy is government spending these days". I've searched online for 2023 and I'm seeing a pretty okay 23% for government spending.

found related concept, I went through about 12 before I start realizing I don't know who these people are https://wangchujiang.com/github-rank/

facebook - 619150.1

sindresorhus (?) - 332369.05

torvalds - 220217.75

openai - 194993.55

ruanyf (?) - 150588.35

karpathy - 125014

bradtraversy (?) - 109041.8

netflix - 107217.95

JakeWharton (?) - 92770.1

peng-zhihui (Huawei researcher?) - 88764

tj (?) - 80875.8

gaearon (bluesky social) - 60159.75

apple - 58110.2

yyx990803 (vue.js?) - 57143.55

google - 54546.65

gustavoguanabara (?) - 50387.35

microsoft - 40706.3

Anyone who wants more of movies like this, please check out "Past Lives". I call it "In The Mood For Love" in New York.

Right now, what's most important to me is getting the permanent residency. I think many people are in the same situation. They made a goal of something (in my case immigration to the United States), and the meandering paths just falls off in terms of feasibility for such plans. I'm not against the article by any means, but I think for people like me, we already found what matters, and "meaning" or "fulfillment" is an extravagance in comparison.

Side note: this is very interesting but I felt like I've read this article before, maybe someone else already written about Todd Rose and Ogi Ogas?

Interesting, because this is similar to a Chinese cultivation novels, or what is known as xianxia genre, trope. Usually, characters live in different “realms” and they have to train/fight/be lucky to “reach a higher realm” where the rules are different (usually means the pressure/danger/ambient-absorbable-energy is higher).

This was posted a few days ago actually

https://eugeneyan.com/writing/llm-patterns/