Alastair Lockie

Mostly lurking. Senior Software Engineer @shopify. All views/opinions are my own. he/him

[tobi lutke @tobi]

A order on @SaltandSundry just tipped Shopify over the 1 trillion(!) in cumulative GMV.

Monumental milestone for us. A beautiful small business run by Amanda McClemens in DC. Couldn't have been a better example of what makes Shopify special: https://t.co/w1qUo7zuji

[Lewis Baston @lewis_baston]

An opportunity to repost one of my favourite pieces of financial journalism ever

[Alastair Lockie @larister]

Oh wow The Kiffness remixed the Cucumber song https://t.co/aNTACTpWFq

[Daniel Beauchamp @pushmatrix]

Can't believe I got this working 🤯

Live preview of a Blender scene with the Vision Pro.

[Alastair Lockie @larister]

Really loving @tuple. It unlocks a whole new mode of remote working, which approximates just wandering over to a colleague's desk to chat through a problem to a degree I didn't really think was possible

[Alastair Lockie @larister]

Over a year in and still waiting on a @jowhiley voice for Spotify DJ https://t.co/q0kOuwsXxj

[Scott Spence @spences10]

Wow!

This is an absolutely fantastic example of how NOT to log an issue on a GitHub repo!

https://t.co/49S7nmIDq1

[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

All of these UNBELIEVABLE videos were created using Sora, the new AI model from OpenAI

Watch each one and see how it makes you feel...

I don't think it's crazy for me to say this going to shift Hollywood, social apps and media forever

Video #1
Prompt: The camera directly faces colorful buildings in burano italy.

An adorable dalmation looks through a window on a building on the ground floor.

Many people are walking and cycling along the canal streets in front of the buildings.

My take:

This dog looks freakishly real. I want to pet him.

[Alastair Lockie @larister]

The insane talent of someone parodying Linkin Park and doing it so well everyone begs them for more
(lead singer from Leoniden) https://t.co/1zb3oR2McY

[Alastair Lockie @larister]

@Jack_Franklin @_jkrsp Will DM Jack

[Alastair Lockie @larister]

Come on then folks, have at it

[Alastair Lockie @larister]

@_jkrsp Haha no but I’ll respond to DMs

[kitze · supermac.io 🐦‍🔥 @thekitze]

if you recognize this it's probably time to schedule your first colonoscopy

[Olaf Falafel @OFalafel]

I hope this clears things up

[Time Capsule Tales @timecaptales]

A censor negotiation letter about Monty Python and the Holy Grail from 1974.

[Chris Lauder @ChrLauder]

Fire in Reading. Rescue of trapped person.

[Charlie Holtz @charlieholtz]

David Attenborough is now narrating my life

Here's a GPT-4-vision + @elevenlabs python script so you can star in your own Planet Earth:

[Alasdair McLeay @penx]

My code is so serious, it errors when run in jest

[Bret Little @little_bret]

Front-end developers forgot how to store state in the URL. Everyone suffers.

[Alastair Lockie @larister]

@AskWithings My Body+ has recently flipped my fat and muscle composition... both in the app and on the scales itself. How can I fix this?