xal
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Heh, literally was training qwen3 finetunes during test sessions. Yea cruel sport, but its the low lows allow the high heights.
hi orange page, author here. QMD is an implementation of the best practices that I picked up in meetings with teams that work in search and retrieval. I tried to make it not overkill and keep things local. Currently working on finetuning better models for query extension and reranking (finetune branch). Feel free to jump in help. Self written and AI PRs welcome.
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xal on Friday November 28, 2025 @07:09PM
from the twitter.com dept.
Heh. That’s news to me too
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xal on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @07:28PM
from the railsatscale.com dept.
Posted by
xal on Sunday August 18, 2024 @02:47PM
from the grantslatton.com dept.
We have been doing BFCM dashboards for the past 10 years now. It's always one of the most fun projects at Shopify and a great tradition now.
You know, it's pretty abstract to run internet software companies. Seeing a visualization like this makes it a lot more relateable even for the folks that work here.
This year we packed it with lots of fun details ( https://twitter.com/Shopify/status/1728040379163771020 ). Like you might see fireworks when a store has their first ever sale, and there are lots of fun city stats which are part generated by GPT4. On desktop you can also open the nerd menu and play around with the settings and share the link to your creation.
I had an entire implementation that used a proper state machine but I couldn’t get it simple and small enough for this single file thing. The regexp chain is dumb but clear.
I've tried to eliminate language around being "too busy" from my vocabulary and attempt to replace it with "can't prioritize". That's sometimes a bit awkward, but really trains better habits. Sometimes I prioritize hobbies if I feel I need it, and doing this seemed fun and useful besides!
I agree, I ended up getting rid of it. Only one dependency is downloaded (via bash script) and everything is baked into the binary now.
GG would just say no and that's that. No hard feelings, that's what makes open source so great.
Posted by
xal on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @01:33PM
from the github.com dept.
I share some rationale here:
https://twitter.com/tobi/status/1674065759754936327> The web is one of the most amazing and unlikely products of humanity. Free and deeply egalitarian. No app store would allow the web to launch today.
> But it's a gargantuan task to build a new browser from scratch, and there are few people with the range of skills to pull it off. Andreas is one of the few and we are lucky that he can focus on such a task.
> I think of Shopify as one of the 'killer apps' of the open web. Not unlike office to windows, visicalc to the apple2 or half-life to steam. As such, we love to support open source that makes the web better. This is why we support Rails, Remix, and now Ladybird. (and many many others)
Awesome project.
If there is ever a project that needed an electron app it’s this one. I’d love to have a Perspective.app that efficiently loads local data style files.
Creating and sharing powerful tools for people to build the things that they want to exist is kinda in Shopify's DNA.
It's also important to me to give back to open source. It's done so much for us.
Everything you need and highlight here can be done on a basic Shopify plan and via the liquid templating engine. It would run super fast, edge deployed globally.
The problem is that no one wants this, so we don't even have templates like this anymore. We used to ~10-15y ago and those would still work perfectly.
I write my own posts, not PR. Don’t be so jaded.
Liquid is a love letter to vanillaJS. That will always be the shopify default. Ecommerce is perfect use case for the web native.
Shopify has Liquid, our template engine. Hydrogen + Oxygen is the manual process to get something like liquid :-)
We tend to refer to the whole thing as the Shopify H2O stack.
I really like it, but I also named it. I can confirm brain was used, but maybe the wrong one.
Posted by
xal on Saturday March 19, 2022 @10:50PM
from the youtube.com dept.
Yes sorry, please use betterment's fork. I got busy with other projects since writing delayed_job and had to prioritize.
Yes we need to link this better. We are using it for
https://shopify.supply for example. But lots more coming!