had this wild and wonderful conversation with @RickRubin. Turns out, having a legendary producer excavate your brain about code, craft, commerce, culture, racing, and AI is oddly therapeutic.

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 👇

Amazing

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

We wanted to build a shader that would change based on which city it was visualizing, and would react to realtime sales happening. We were really inspired by the work of @xorDev, so we reached out to collaborate. Here's some of his work I love.

Been a long time fan of shadertoy website. The Sphere always seemed perfect for showing this type of programmatic art off in style. The team made it happen today.

Lets go!!! Thank you @SphereVegas and @Shopify for the opportunity

merchants hit new milestones every day take a look at a few who accomplished 10K, 100K, or 1M lifetime orders this holiday season congratulations

The VR mode of the BFCM globe is so absurd. I love it

Peak sales hit $5.1 (!) million per minute right around noon today across the Shopify platform. https://t.co/M5xfYjG7KA

Watch live all weekend https://t.co/Lxc1bY3mjN

The Live Globe is back on @SphereVegas 100% live data, rendered in real-time, built with threejs, React, and a lot of shaders 3…2…1…

Technical details of the BFCM globe build this year. A love letter to the web

And of course the pinball table works in AR! Thanks to the amazing @react-three/xr library. Only a 100 lines of code or so to wire it up. Load it up on your fav headset to play it in your space!

Shopify's annual love letter to the web So many fun easter eggs in here https://t.co/jQhZzqHBqZ

Hint: 8624 https://t.co/Lxc1bY3mjN

It's officially Black Friday in the first time zones and we're live with this year's Live Globe, now inside a pinball machine. The design is beautiful, it’s fun to play, and live sales trigger surprises. The team went all out on this one. Give it a spin.

Yes CTV. More than one.

Congratulations to Prime Minister @MarkJCarney and Premier @ABDanielleSmith on today’s energy announcement. Energy is the lifeblood of any economy. Pipelines are a minor but important implementation detail of a good energy policy for Canada. You unlocked progress

https://t.co/hsg699U1Yk

The CN Tower and Earth’s rotation: the Coriolis Effect. 1/ The CN Tower (553.3 m) was built 1973-1976 using continuous slip-form concrete pouring. The form moved upward ~6 m per day, 24 hours a day, for months.