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Re:Garnix (A Nix CI) is shutting down on Thursday May 28, 2026 @09:14PM (#48317766)
truth
Re:QMD - Quick Markdown Search on Monday January 26, 2026 @01:08PM (#46769253)
Heh, literally was training qwen3 finetunes during test sessions. Yea cruel sport, but its the low lows allow the high heights.
Re:QMD - Quick Markdown Search on Monday January 26, 2026 @10:55AM (#46767190)
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.
Re:Rails Needs New Governance on Friday September 19, 2025 @06:55PM (#45307739)
Heh. That’s news to me too
Re:Fast memory vulnerabilities, written in 100% safe Rust on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @12:41PM (#39444241)
Re:I Love Ruby on Monday December 18, 2023 @04:58PM (#38688936)
same
Re:Shopify live dashboard on Friday November 24, 2023 @09:56AM (#38404587)
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.

Re:LLama.cpp now has a web interface on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @10:45PM (#36610422)
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.
Re:LLama.cpp now has a web interface on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @05:15PM (#36607229)
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!
Re:LLama.cpp now has a web interface on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @03:54PM (#36606161)
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.
Re:LLama.cpp now has a web interface on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @03:53PM (#36606147)
Re:LLama.cpp now has a web interface on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @03:51PM (#36606122)
GG would just say no and that's that. No hard feelings, that's what makes open source so great.
Re:Welcoming Shopify as a Ladybird Sponsor on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @11:31AM (#36507926)
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)

Re:Perspective 2.0, Open Source WebAssembly-Powered BI on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @01:08PM (#35457296)
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.

Re:Ruby 3.2’s YJIT is Production-Ready on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @12:21PM (#34415394)
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.

Re:Layoffs at Canadian tech startups on Sunday September 25, 2022 @10:27PM (#32978641)
I write my own posts, not PR. Don’t be so jaded.
Re:Shopify lets staff decide cash-stock pay mix as shares dive on Friday September 16, 2022 @11:17AM (#32867237)
Added some additional information here: https://twitter.com/tobi/status/1570791158691012610

It's a really great system. We recommend that people borrow from it liberally.

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.

Re:Delayed Job vs. Sidekiq on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @08:50AM (#30359879)
very cool! thank you
Re:Delayed Job vs. Sidekiq on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @07:57AM (#30359398)
Yes sorry, please use betterment's fork. I got busy with other projects since writing delayed_job and had to prioritize.
Re:The Factorio Mindset on Friday February 11, 2022 @11:42AM (#30303531)
I do :-)
Yes we need to link this better. We are using it for https://shopify.supply for example. But lots more coming!

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