Daniel Beauchamp

Distinguished Engineer @ Shopify. Building random experiments in my spare time.

[Daniel Beauchamp @pushmatrix]

This is three.js running on the Exosphere. 🤯

Rendering in realtime from a browser at 8K / 60fps.

Here’s how Shopify just pulled it off 👇

[Daniel Beauchamp @pushmatrix]

@albn Never thought I’d see the day you’d be repping the #threejs hashtag 😛

[Daniel Beauchamp @pushmatrix]

@dangreenheck The pro move is using autoresearch

https://t.co/TUCQZjbD14

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@andreintg https://t.co/CkVlXmHYgP but open source would be amazing.

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@dhh Oooo I gotta get it running on the Odin Portal 2 handheld for gaming 🤔

[Daniel Beauchamp @pushmatrix]

@pmndrs Is leva getting a refresh?!

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@albn @akella @threejsconf @makio64 @mrdoob Likewise! Was supposed to give a talk but my childcare fell through 😭.

[Daniel Beauchamp @pushmatrix]

@endel @0xGuavaGuy @SuperTrip64 I see colyseus has experimental web transport support. Is it at all possible to have mixed protocol so that if players have webtransport it uses that, otherwise falls back on sockets?

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@dhh Dream bigger!

[Daniel Beauchamp @pushmatrix]

This is three.js running on the Exosphere. 🤯

Rendering in realtime from a browser at 8K / 60fps.

Here’s how Shopify just pulled it off 👇

[Daniel Beauchamp @pushmatrix]

@Wealthsimple Happy to see Quick at Wealthsimple 😛

[Daniel Beauchamp @pushmatrix]

@seekingprotein Quick was built and is maintained by two people! @xaptronic and myself.

And the maintenance now is very part time. Thing runs smooth due to so few moving parts

[Daniel Beauchamp @pushmatrix]

Everyone's talking about AI-generated HTML.

But have you tried giving your sites a zero-config API for saving data, file storage, AI, websockets, etc?

We did this at Shopify. Runs on a single VM that costs $200/month, and it's changed the way we work.

We call it Quick 👇🧵

[Daniel Beauchamp @pushmatrix]

@srbryers @rauchg @Shopify 👀

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No special thanks to meeeeee and @xaptronic for building the OG version? 😛

Jk. This is so cool. Love to see it

We had cloudrun at first but switched to vm. Became way more stable, especially with websocket connections.

We provide git based deploys, but also sometimes you just want to put something up right away without going through all the git hoops.

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@jacobmparis At $20/mth per seat x 7000+ employees, I’ll take my $200 VM any day

Anyway, I’m not throwing shade at Vercel. Love you guys and your platform.

Quick is simple yet powerful, has 0 setup, and works great for us.

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@QChuret @ChatGPTapp There is none. All quick sites open to everyone internally. There’s not even the concept of a site owner. Anyone can overwrite anything. And it works perfectly

Permissions are a rats nest of complexity.

[Daniel Beauchamp @pushmatrix]

@topmass Neat! Comparing the costs is not quite accurate. The $200/mth is running this on a single VM for a company over 7k+ people with tens of thousands of requests per minute.

You could run quick locally for a small team for almost nothing in comparison

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@austinhutchison Great question!

There’s a “quick serve” command that runs your site off localhost for testing, and provides shims for all the APIs

Ex: the database and file uploads just saves to local storage, websockets use broadcast channel API, etc…

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@itsTimYim @jacobmparis Ding ding. You are correct. The web used to be simpler. Somewhere between then and now things got overrun by frameworks, endless config files, build pipelines etc…

This is a return to the basics. FTP like deploys

But it’s pairing that with a built in api that is the big unlock

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@notjazii Ask it to recalculate normals per frame and use it for shading the geo. Otherwise it looks too flat