L L O Y D

Engineering Leader and Founder. Ex-Shopify. Building and changing my life through practice

[L L O Y D @llwire]

I left my job last week - it’s a pretty big deal for me!

It was over 7 years of learning and growing, and I’m forever grateful for that opportunity. It was also 7 years of stability, so you can imagine that leaving is quite scary.

[L L O Y D @llwire]

I don’t know what a Jet2 holiday is, but I need one…

[L L O Y D @llwire]

I know so many developers that could really use this. Shoutout to @birk and team for this!

[Polar @polar_sh]

Dear builders,

Today, we're announcing Polar v1.0.

An open source alternative to Lemon Squeezy with 20%+ lower fees.

Designed for builders, indie hackers and open source maintainers.

You push the world forward. It's time you got paid coding on your passion.

[L L O Y D @llwire]

@agarcher This amazing! If you’ve never been to a builder Sunday you should definitely check it out

[L L O Y D @llwire]

@Brentertainer @robjama @skstock Yes, sign me up! I’ll also check out Growclass

[L L O Y D @llwire]

Where the communities for marketers who are specifically interested in building or growing tech startups? Are there any? I’d love to know!

[L L O Y D @llwire]

I absolutely can’t wait for this! @jmwind is an amazing engineering leader. I aspire to cultivate the kind of engineering culture he established at Shopify.

[Fahd Ananta @fahdananta]

Introducing Off The Record 009 with JML: JML (@jmwind) be interviewed by @BrandonMChu

We'll learn about:
- His time as the CTO of Shopify from pre-IPO through to hypergrowth
- Sneaker bots
- His time as a VP at Atlassian and how he feels about Jira
- What it was like to work on the Eclipse team and write the book on it
- Circumnavigating the globe on his sailboat
- Running a restaurant in Ottawa

⏰ Fri Jun 14 at Studio 535
🎟️ Tickets: https://t.co/YlvRqR2kEJ

[L L O Y D @llwire]

We knew there was going to be some big AI announcement, but I didn't think something like Private Cloud Compute would in there, but it makes sense.

[L L O Y D @llwire]

Whoa! Passwords app is a huge shot to products like LastPass and 1Password #WWDC24

[L L O Y D @llwire]

I was not expecting that Parkour break, lol

[L L O Y D @llwire]

The nerd in me got excited by the Math notes feature, lol. Ngl, it’s pretty cool #WWDC24

[L L O Y D @llwire]

Lock an app, great! Hide an app, I’m not so sure. But I’m sure we’ll hear more about people use that #WWDC24

[L L O Y D @llwire]

@affan_imran TIL. I looked for it a few minutes before it started but couldn’t find it. I’ll look again, thanks!

[L L O Y D @llwire]

WWDC should really be live on Apple TV. I think it’s a miss they don’t do that

[L L O Y D @llwire]

Vision Pro in Canada this July?! Interesting… might have to get my hands on one #WWDC24

[L L O Y D @llwire]

@myusuf3 @robjama @535Toronto Those Go Place slippers are going places

[L L O Y D @llwire]

@saeedjabbar @robjama @535Toronto It’s the Xebec Tri Screen. I got mine a couple of years ago. The newer versions are much larger and the price went up!

[L L O Y D @llwire]

@CarlCasis @robjama @535Toronto Don’t worry about that. Battery stays on 100!

[L L O Y D @llwire]

That’s light work @robjama

[Robleh @robjama]

Lloyd has the most cracked mobile setup I’ve seen!

Spotted @535Toronto. This is how we roll in Toronto’s east end.

Give him a follow @llwire

[L L O Y D @llwire]

Just responded to a recruiter with this. I hesitated for a bit, but I know this is what I want.

[L L O Y D @llwire]

Beware of comfort!

Not that comfort is a bad thing, but it can often be what stands between you and the thing you want for your life.

Practice small bits of discomfort and gradually ramp up. Before you know it, you’ll be quitting your job to start a company.

That's my story