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ireginaon I almost got hacked by a 'job interview'

The LinkedIn for the CEO got taken down

ireginaon I almost got hacked by a 'job interview'

I'm a little scared to admit this but I actually enjoyed this blog post in its LLM form. The writing style and tone was strange but I liked being led through a story and all the little explanations of why developers are the best folks to target for these scammers.

ireginaon Shopify successfully migrate largest apps to React Native New Architecture

Shopify successfully migrated two of our largest apps, Shopify Mobile and Shopify Point of Sale (POS) to React Native's New Architecture while maintaining weekly releases and serving millions of merchants. This migration involved a complex codebase with hundreds of screens and native modules, extensive custom components, and deep integration with first-party libraries like FlashList.

ireginaon UI vs. API. vs. UAI

You're spot on! We (Shopify) are using it now: https://shopify.engineering/mcp-ui-breaking-the-text-wall

ireginaon UI vs. API. vs. UAI

Insightful!!

ireginaon Agentic commerce is here; add shopping to your agent

Exactly!!!

ireginaon Shopify makes AI usage a baseline expectation as a company

Hey HN! I'm Regina, technical comms from Shopify. wave

I am so, so thrilled to see this piece published as the first story in Applied Intelligence, the new publication by First Round. Their team spent countless hours learning and chatting with our Engineering team, and it's the first time we're publicly talking about some of the projects mentioned in the article.

Pop in your questions here — if I can't answer them, I can try to pull in someone who can!

ireginaon Shopify Tech Stack

ByteByteGo just released a high level overview of Shopify's Tech Stack, which my team and I help out with writing. Let me know if you have questions!

ireginaon Trees not profits: we're giving up our right to ever sell Ecosia (2018)

How is Fastmaol? Is it inconvenient to not use Gmail?

ireginaon Private delegated computation is here, and there will be bugs

Oh! I’m really excited they are working on this - these guys are super smart!

ireginaon What's the Deal with Zkapps?

zk was so popular at devcon!

ireginaon Facebook Is the Junk Food of Socializing (2015)

Thank you for sharing - just deleted the app off my phone. I hope one day, I can go without Facebook for a long period of time.

ireginaon Machine learning of neural representations of emotion identifies suicidal youth

"Words like death and cruelty differentially activated the left superior medial frontal area and the medial frontal/anterior cingulate in the individuals with suicidal ideation – these are areas associated with self-referential thought." I wonder how they reacted to "alive" and "humane"

ireginaon Upbeat (YC S10) gets $1.5M to create a data science-driven alternative to PR

Congratulations Upbeat, David, Ricky & all! Beautiful product.

ireginaon Help humans, hack health. HealthTap Cloud developer platform open

YES!

ireginaon Show HN: I invented a caffeinated toothpaste

Hi Ian, cool product! What was it like dealing with cosmetic regulations? And why is toothpaste under cosmetic regulations, rather than healthcare?

ireginaon What goes wrong in the brain chemistry of a gambling addict?

I am staring at Facebook and it is staring back at me.

ireginaon Google Books just won a decade-long copyright fight

My university partnered with Google to produce a digital collection where "full-text of works that are out of copyright or in the public domain are viewable, and patrons can search inside in-copyright works." http://www.lib.umich.edu/michigan-digitization-project