Joseph Smarr

@jsmarr

Principal Engineer @Shopify. Former CTO @Triller. Former Principal Engineer @Google (NLP for Assistant, founding team for G+ and Photos). Former CTO of Plaxo.

Half Moon Bay, CA josephsmarr.com Joined April 2007

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Joseph Smarr @jsmarr Oct 29

Great 🧵 on all the stuff my team launched today by our rockstar PM (and OG Shopifolk) @tejasmehta0 💚

Tejas Mehta Verified account @tejasmehta0 Oct 28

For the first time, merchants can directly control what product data goes to each channel. Next up: channel-specific schemas (Google already live) for optimized listings everywhere, and deeper Sidekick integration to autofill missing data. It works out of the box if you just want your catalog ready to sell anywhere, and it gives power users control over every single piece of content. I'd love the ecosystem's feedback!
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Joseph Smarr @jsmarr Oct 28

So excited to finally ship our top-requested Channels feature! I've been working hard on it with my awesome team for a while now--it was tricky to build something sufficiently powerful and flexible that's still simple enough to understand and "just works" at Shopify scale. Lmkwyt

tobi lutke Verified account @tobi Oct 28

Now you can customize product data by channel. Details matter here.

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Joseph Smarr @jsmarr Oct 27

Tons of people at @sentry 's awesome office for this high energy @exedev and friends meetup. great talks and discussion. so much experimentation these days to get the most from AI without losing control of our code or our sanity. No consensus yet other than keep tinkering!

David Crawshaw Verified account @davidcrawshaw Oct 27

First @exedev meetup in progress.

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Joseph Smarr @jsmarr Oct 15

I've always looked up to @rauchg and @cramforce but watching them on stage today at @vercel ship it was a bit more literal. :)

Great job, guys! Amazing how the company has grown and how many hard problems you've solved for yourself and then exported for everyone else to use!

Joseph Smarr @jsmarr Oct 15

Fun set of talks on new and unconventional uses for agentic engineeing in the Bloomberg Beta tower with @simonw , @chrismessina , and friends. Reminds me of the web 2.0 days ago where everyone is trying new things and sharing openly, early days still!