Laurynas Binderis

ecommerce guy who tweets about retail and other stuff like human optimisation

[tobi lutke @tobi]

https://t.co/5MJ7u1VHwf

[Rousseau Kazi @rousseaukazi]

stream of consciousness:

it's never been more critical for your friends and family to have a side project.

do them a favor and get them started on one. get them a github repo, a codex/claude/lovable/replit/whatever. just a folder that they can work with an ai to commit and push stuff to.

the rate at which new tools and technology is both exhilarating and nauseating. the future has never been more unevenly distributed than it is today. however, what's different about today is that literally ~everyone can access it. the playing field has never been more even.

@tobi has this cool approach for being a futurist. it goes something like:

"predicting the future is easier than you think.

1) live in everyone's relative future, just use all the bleeding edge, latest tools to the max. just get the reps in.

2) when you compare that to what the average person is doing today, you have another data point to extrapolate a line from.

3) if on top of that, you're a student of history, you have many more data points to extrapolate a curve from."

it's pretty wild just how effective this thinking is. many of us do, attempt to do (1), every day. honestly, being able to learn about so many of the latest tools, approaches, etc is easily the greatest value add twitter/x has on my life. it's like the best group chat for being exposed to the future.

however, when i speak to non-technical friends & family, the same energy for all this new stuff isn't there.

it's not because of lack of interest, if it was, it wouldn't really bother me. that said, i know these people and they would find it infinitely interesting and they would naturally love keeping up with this stuff.

what i'm learning is that most people don't have a low expectation, fun side project that they can apply all this new tech to.

when a new piece of tech comes out, people can intellectually understand that it's cool but if there's not an easy, personal thing to apply it to... then it just stays intellectually interesting and not viscerally exciting.

for example, there are all of those cool skills today like remotion/hyperframes/etc where if you point it at a repo, it'll create a fun marketing video.

for anyone with a side project who sucks at video editing, this is super cool and you're itching to see what it produces for your project.

however, if you don't, you're sorta like "that's cool" and then you move on. you don't feel inspired to try it, it feels too heavy, and you miss out on living in everyone's relative future.

why is it important to get them setup with a repo/software adjacent project?

ai's killer use case right now is that it truly democratizes software engineering. the latest models are as, if not more, capable as most senior engineers we've ever worked with. the best tools are being made for agents that are software engineers at heart.md.

you'll get the most bang for your buck by having something with a software component. get them setup with a repo somewhere and teach them how to ask their agent to point to tools, learn it, and see their eyes light up.

having something you're hacking on is fun but more importantly, it acts as an object to apply the future to.

it's something you care about, something you know, that you're building over time, and therefore when you encounter something that can push it forward in a way you could never imagine and at a speed you find neck-breaking, you can't help but find yourself sprinting to set it up.

helping your community feel that intoxicating feedback loop is one of the more valuable things you can do for them today.

[Jon Ezell @Jonezell_]

@Shopify SimGym feels like you're living in the future. Let me walk you though it:

[tobi lutke @tobi]

Lots of non tech friends want openclaws. So far i've set them up on VMs, but this is getting heavy. Are there any good multi-tenant openclaw setups or alt-claws yet that are good enough?

[jordy @jordymaui]

https://t.co/zFf6OgdaHX

[Dr. Rhonda Patrick @foundmyfitness]

Of everything I learned in 2025 (from the podcast + digging into the research), a few habits rose to the top as the highest ROI for healthspan:

• Micro-bouts of vigorous movement throughout the day (even ~1 minute at a time)
• A consistent sleep schedule (same general sleep/wake timing and a "wind-down" routine)
• Swap to-go coffee cups for a mug/thermos to reduce avoidable microplastic exposure
• Prioritize protein + fiber at the first meal to support satiety, glucose control, and lean mass

Supplements I’m watching closely:

• Higher-dose creatine
• Sulforaphane
• Urolithin A

[Laurynas Binderis @ecommercelad]

@siimland Good stuff, happy New Year!

[Farhan Thawar @fnthawar]

Don’t over-index on what you already know

— @igrigorik

[tobi lutke @tobi]

I'm really really excited about Agentic Commerce. There is so much amazing stuff being built. Everything I test just feels delightful and right. Shopify is building all the layers of infrastructure to power a new cambrian explosion of creativity in shopping

[Harley Finkelstein @harleyf]

Best thing you read, heard or watched this year?

I’m looking for ones that made you stop and rethink how you’re approaching your business or your life.

[tobi lutke @tobi]

Congratulations to our merchants on another record breaking Black Friday. LFG

→ Merchants total Black Friday sales were $6.2 billion, up 25% YoY
→ Edge peaked at 489 million requests per minute. App servers handled a peak of 117 million requests per minute, up 40% from last year
→ Shopify’s egress processed 237 billion requests
→ Peak database queries reached over 53 million per second and writes reached over 2 million per second
→ API processed over 31 million requests per minute at peak

[Ilya Grigorik @igrigorik]

World-class bot detection for every Shopify store.

Most traffic on the internet is not initiated by biological lifeforms. More so, commerce attracts 🤖 specimens that you don't find in other environments, purpose built to interact with carts, checkout, etc. Some of these are good, some neutral, some cause harm. Identifying them is a legitimately hard problem that requires specialized commerce knowledge and scale.

We like solving hard problems for merchants. We made a huge investment this year to rebuild bot detection from the ground up, and the new analytics filter is just the tip of that iceberg.

Long story short: if you're a Shopify merchant, you have world-class bot detection working for you, and a dedicated team that's continuously improving it. 💪🏻

[George from 🕹prodmgmt.world @nurijanian]

The Platform PM's Essential Toolkit:

1. Systems thinking
2. Developer empathy
3. API design principles
4. DevOps fundamentals
5. Data architecture basics
6. Change management
7. Internal marketing
8. Technical writing
9. Cross-team collaboration

Link below to some free resources 👇🏼

[Laurynas Binderis @ecommercelad]

Do hard things to get stronger

[Farhan Thawar @fnthawar]

It is a fundamental law of nature that you get stronger only by doing difficult things

— Ray Dalio, Principles

[Laurynas Binderis @ecommercelad]

@maxmarchione What suppliers do you recommend for peptides?

[Carl Rivera @carlrivera]

Shopify and Lovable share a goal of lowering the cost of entrepreneurship – making it easier to turn ideas into businesses. As a Lovable investor I couldn't be more excited about what will be achieved together

[Laurynas Binderis @ecommercelad]

That’s great stuff!

[Shopify Developers @ShopifyDevs]

ShopifyQL is now in the Admin API

Query the same analytics data merchants see in their admin within your app

[Laurynas Binderis @ecommercelad]

Be impatient with action and patient with results (Naval)

[Laurynas Binderis @ecommercelad]

@siimland Nice work!