A Persistent Insight Shaping How We Build Companies
Also don’t remember. But it’s been living rent free in my head ever since. Puts a very important truth that you intuit when building companies in a very accessible form.
UCP Empowers Merchants to Own Their Checkout Experience
Now that the whole industry is united behind UCP, it’s worth re-reading how we built the protocol specifically to put merchants in charge of their checkout and commerce. Building the Universal Commerce Protocol https://t.co/hqHCk7rGf5
Canada’s Current Path Fails to Ensure World‑class Prosperity
Self recommending must-read for Canadians. “The path Canada is on, economically and culturally, is no longer sufficient to make us a flourishing world class nation.”
Universal Commerce Protocol Upgrade Launches on Shopify
New version of Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP 2026-04-08) just got finalized. Carts (!), Catalog discovery features, Order status,, Signals support, ... Big step step function upgrade for agentic commerce. https://t.co/Q9hGXUUmLr Coming soon to every Shopify storefront.
Qmd 2.1 Launches with Code‑aware Splitting, Performance Boosts
qmd 2.1 is out with all sorts of goodies. Code aware splitting, performance, official benchmarks etc etc
Must‑Read
Brilliant book on intelligence. Highly recommended. https://t.co/FLt7jbDhvG And as always with these type of books, skip the last chapter.
Entrepreneurship Remains the Most AI‑Proof Job
The most AI proof job in the world is entrepreneurship Use it to make products and services. Build more companies. On Shopify or otherwise.
Shopify Introduces a Fun New Way to Tinker
A new delightful way to Tinker with your latest ideas. Made with love by Shopify.
A Year Later: AI Becomes Reflex, Not Novelty
It has been exactly 1 year since I wrote that AI memo. People are definitely reaching for AI reflexively.
Community Notes Thrive when Rivals Find Common Ground
Community notes is such a good feature. Only shows up when people who usually disagree with each other agree on a note. Imagine legacy media had the guts to implement a system like this. https://t.co/5oYLqZt1iS
Autoresearch Cuts Liquid Parse Speed by 53%
OK, well. I ran /autoresearch on the the liquid codebase. 53% faster combined parse+render time, 61% fewer object allocations. This is probably somewhat overfit, but there are absolutely amazing ideas in this. https://t.co/dpEJw7NpL4
System Promising, but Needs 8GB M1/M2 Optimization
@Entropic_AI system looks good, but you need to figure out a path to run with 8gb M1,M2 s
Autoresearch Streamlines Software Optimization with Automated Setup
Autoresearch works even better for optimizing any piece of software. make an auto folder, add program.md and bench script, make a branch and let it rip.
QMD Launches Native Query Extender, Boosting Expansion Performance
QMD now has its own natively trained query extender model https://t.co/b89CmKIknV Seems to do much better at query expansion in my tests. try it out.
UCP Proxy Connects Any E‑commerce System to Shopping Agents
We build UCP Proxy to take any ecommerce system and expose it via UCP to shopping agents. Make commerce better for everyone.