Gil
@gilgNYC
Product @ Shopify. 🇮🇱
I’m excited to share that @Shopify has acquired @CheckoutBlocks! From day one, our goal was to help as many Shopify merchants as possible to customize their checkouts. This acquisition allows us to succeed on an even bigger scale. What does this mean for Checkout Blocks? Only…
Shopify’s Storefront web components continues to be highly underrated for the kinds of commerce experiences it unlocks. It’s effectively forward deployed commerce.
For anyone who's offered to retweet about Shopify's open studios / coworking day, here you go: events.shopifyny.com/shopifybuilder Next Weds 7/30 All day Shopify office Free food, drinks, wifi, quiet space Come hang w/ me
Struggling to adopt Rust for Shopify functions? @dave_cameron walks us through it step by step. 🚀
Migrate your Functions to Rust to improve performance and reduce execution time Demo with @dave_cameron
If I was building a Shopify app today, it would 100% be anchored to Shopify POS. Retail is the most underrated aspect of Shopify. Least amount of competition with the most platform upside. POS now has extremely robust APIs with a core product that’s constantly improving. Sent…
Honestly, this is so cool. I’m going to run to the Apple Store down the street and buy a fresh Mac mini and try this. 😆
Reply with your favorite coffee brands! As many as you want. Working on something for @Shopify.
A small favor! My team (@Shopify Checkout) is hiring world-class software engineers. Do you or someone you know want to work on a planet-scale checkout? Work w/ an AI-accelerated R&D team & shape agentic computing? Develop best-in-class APIs? Send me a DM! 🤝 (Remote - Americas)
Currently, ~20% of NYC is Jewish but that’s projected to rise to 25% within the next 15 years. Huge voting block. 3rd fastest growing group at 3% annually - much higher than average. More Jews should move to NYC, let’s make it 30% 🤣 cc @shaig @BillAckman
Over the last few weeks, I’ve had multiple Jewish friends tell me that they are leaving Toronto and Canada. They say they no longer feel safe sending their kids to school here. This is just so incredibly sad.
I know I’m a little biased but the amount of cool shit being worked on at Shopify right now is insane. Hard to keep up but 🥵
Discount Kit migrated to the WebAssembly API for Shopify Functions: 30% fewer instructions, 40% smaller binaries, near-zero compute errors, more powerful discounts. Worth checking out if you're hitting instruction limits. shopify.com/partners/blog/…
If we had something like this for the Shopify community, what would you want to see which would be actually helpful?
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You’re not rich rich until you have 20+ foot tall hedges surrounding your property.
Exactly ten years ago today was my first day at Shopify. Best decision ever!!!
Nothing more satisfying than seeing a succinct 1-3 minute demo. I want to build a small GitHub action that records a “user” demo automatically for a PR.
I meet a lot of CEOs who are taking over an existing engineering team and are trying to answer a seemingly simple question "How do I measure the effectiveness of my engineering team?" My answer: WEEKLY DEMOS There are lots of activity metrics that can be useful to track, but…