Mike Shaver
@shaver
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dad. optimist. advisor. aspiring leader & technologist. friend. ex Netscape/Mozilla/Facebook/Oculus/Real/integrate.ai/VGS/Shopify. he/him. can I help?
Toronto, Ontario
Joined March 2007
RT @editingemily: I will die on the hill that RTO hurts families with young children the most — and mothers above all when mom is still the….
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RT @awesomekling: I'm proud to introduce the Ladybird Browser Initiative, a nonprofit founded by myself and @defunkt to develop a truly ind….
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RT @StopArabHate: 🚨 What is going on, @Google? There is no indication that Elizabeth Wolf is a “Muslim woman”
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It is also 10x easier to lose reliability, correctness, maintainability, confidence, trust, legibility, and that nice smell a baby’s head has. (This is not only true of software.).
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RT @canna_brain: From someone who has studied this field for over 2 decades, I can comfortably say that virtually everything said here is i….
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like even to actually figure out *why* something is slow—which circumstances make it good and which ones make it bad—is often a huge effort. so many things are obvious, simple, and incorrect when it comes to measurement.
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all these people posting about how easy it is to make things fast, and I just keep thinking about the amount of my professional life that has been spent desperately trying to improve the performance of something complicated. I wish I’d known!.
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I don’t know why the Toronto home run sign is back in the news a year later, but it *is* a very Toronto thing indeed: city limits public space because developer doesn’t want to invest in a wall or fence.
thestar.com
City backtracks on a ban on home runs at a west end softball diamond after four years.
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It is a near-criminal missed opportunity for the world that WG21 and other C++ stewards are ignoring this work. Memory safety in C++ would change the computer security calculus so much for systems that are infeasible to reimplement in a safer language.
I had an ambitious goal at the start of last year--demonstrate fearless concurrency in C++. Now it's working. This is one of the coolest things in language design. No data races to shared state--statically guaranteed. shared_ptr<mutex<T>> in C++ is Arc<Mutex<T>> in Rust.
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I don’t know who I know that is still at Mozilla, but Pulsebot needs to learn where Felix issues live so that it stops spamming us old-timers. (And so that the Fenix bugs are properly updated!)
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RT @ONSchoolSafety: Measles in Brantford-Brant, with exposures in Pearson airport, Brantford General ER and McMaster ER on the weekend.
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Very excited to have @Shopify join @Cloudflare in supporting the @ProssimoISRG-led River project to bring #memorysafety and better performance to HTTP routing infrastructure!
memorysafety.org
Today we are announcing plans to build a new high performance and memory safe reverse proxy in partnership with Cloudflare, Shopify, and Chainguard. The new software will be built on top of Cloudfl...
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I am so excited about this. @tobi and the Talent team went to first principles about what success at Shopify should and could mean, and how to create a system that rewards people for being their best, instead of turning into someone else.
We spend a lot of time on how to build a better company and better company systems. One thing that has always been in the way of building world class products is the traditional setup of the "corporate ladder" - it means that the best people end up managing instead of directly
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Had a great time talking with @seanfalconer on @software_daily about @ShopifyEng , mental health, our extensibility ecosystem!
softwareengineeringdaily.com
Shopify is an e-commerce platform focused on enabling small businesses to sell online. The company was founded in 2006 and since then has become a core technology of online business infrastructure....
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