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Product @ Google GenAI | Prev. Shopify Builder and KPMG Strategy ☕️📱🧗🏼🇨🇦

Toronto, Ontario
Joined January 2009
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Progress. And v0.1 works!
You can just build things 👀
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Again, for those in the back: All great software is fast.
We’ve rebuilt the @Shopify mobile app from the ground up in native for iOS and Android 📱 The new experience brings a fresh design, smoother interactions, and Liquid Glass on iOS. It also launches faster on both platforms, with Android launch time cut by more than half.
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All great software is fast.
BREAKING NEWS: Bevel just got FASTER ⚡ The latest update makes our health and fitness app faster to open and faster to load, so your health data is right there the second you need it. And we didn’t stop at speed. We also cover Training Plans that sync with Apple Calendar and Google Calendar, easier nutrition tracking, and more.
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The App Store free vs. paid charts are kinda wild. #10 free app - Temu. Makes sense. 211k ratings. A totally insane app but sure. #10 paid app - Goblin tools. wat 😑
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Look for Expo Mode. We built it with Google’s new HTML-in-Canvas API. I think we’re one of the first to use it.
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You can just build things 👀
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Introducing Gemini 4 Carbon, our latest frontier model. Carbon delivers improved performance across domains — ranking #1 on v5.0 of the @ArtificialAnlys Intelligence Index and sets a new state-of-the-art in cybersecurity and long-horizon capabilities. It’s rolling out starting this week to cyber defenders through our Fairwind Program, with expanded access coming soon 🧵
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every product i use should just be a headless mcp, that feeds into an agent, where i never have to think about anything underneath. except for our product, of course. in our product, customers love the ui and love us very much. we're special that way.
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Markdown as first class file citizens in Workspace!
Native Markdown support is available across @GoogleDrive & @GoogleDocs. 🚀 Preview .md files directly in Drive, open and edit them in Docs, and collaborate in real time—all without converting your files. 👉 goo.gle/3W2dMbe
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First day at Google. Apple mug smashed itself in the sink…
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Group chat software, huh? stratechery.com/2026/the-end…
Apple’s clunky TestFlight sharing and App Store deployment might be the only thing propping up the entire economy of indie app developers building small, personal apps. Once I can build, install, and share from a prompt, what happens to to-do apps, recipe managers, etc.
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We’ve spent about a compact car’s worth on Meta ads, and the algorithm has finally found her customers. The Shopify ka-ching now goes off several times a day.
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My three year old already believes three things: - glasses take pictures - if you need something, 3d print it - music can be called upon anywhere in the house To me, these are the new equivalents of growing up with a desktop computer in the corner. So much possibility.
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Duo FOMO is real
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Updating and deploying murdo.xyz/ through Codex on my phone because it’s all static docs on a cloudflare backend. CMSs have always sucked but now they are officially a dead class of software.
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Toronto fall by the beach is incredible.
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Really enjoying the chaotic energy of Apple Intelligence summaries. Feeling seen.
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Apple’s clunky TestFlight sharing and App Store deployment might be the only thing propping up the entire economy of indie app developers building small, personal apps. Once I can build, install, and share from a prompt, what happens to to-do apps, recipe managers, etc.
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Especially considering iOS provides so many primitives for free. WeatherKit, HealthKit, HomeKit, FinanceKit, MapKit with Core ML as local intelligence.
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