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Re: Shopify live dashboard

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Post by hombre_fatal »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #48
hombre_fatal wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They are just pointing out how funny it is to have any sort of environmental savings metric for a sales event known for impulse FOMO purchases.

But that’s the entire point. It isn’t funny, it is legitimate effort to offset the harm caused by consumer demand that won’t go away. My problem is that it is flippant, ignores the nuance, and is borderline ignorant. It has no place here, whereas the math around the topic does. Curiosity and discovery over shitposting.

I agree, but there's another side of the coin that's perhaps best demonstrated by "Climate-friendly" burger patties. We'll do anything to roleplay that we care instead of the hard things.

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2023/9/8/23863100/tyson-c...

That said, I don't think responsibility falls on Shopify here. But I did find myself nodding along with them as I find myself scrolling Amazon for "deals" on things I don't even want!

Re: Shopify live dashboard

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Post by JLCarveth »

purple_ferret wrote: post #47
xal wrote: post #26

We have been doing BFCM dashboards for the past 10 years now. It's always one of the most fun projects at Shopify and a great tradition now. You know, it's pretty abstract to run internet software companies. Seeing a visualization like this makes it a lot more relateable even for the folks that work here. This year we packed it with lots of fun details ( https://twitter.com/Shopify/status/1728040379163771020 ). Like…

why is looking up Jerusalem, Israel blocked?

It doesn't seem blocked, it says "Not enough data" when you select it.

Re: Shopify live dashboard

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Post by halvo »

xal wrote: post #26

We have been doing BFCM dashboards for the past 10 years now. It's always one of the most fun projects at Shopify and a great tradition now. You know, it's pretty abstract to run internet software companies. Seeing a visualization like this makes it a lot more relateable even for the folks that work here. This year we packed it with lots of fun details ( https://twitter.com/Shopify/status/1728040379163771020 ). Like…

Is BFCM a well known acronym? I get that it’s about Black Friday but can’t figure out the CM and don’t see it written out anywhere

Re: Shopify live dashboard

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Post by klausjensen »

halvo wrote: post #53
xal wrote: post #26

We have been doing BFCM dashboards for the past 10 years now. It's always one of the most fun projects at Shopify and a great tradition now. You know, it's pretty abstract to run internet software companies. Seeing a visualization like this makes it a lot more relateable even for the folks that work here. This year we packed it with lots of fun details ( https://twitter.com/Shopify/status/1728040379163771020 ). Like…

Is BFCM a well known acronym? I get that it’s about Black Friday but can’t figure out the CM and don’t see it written out anywhere

Cyber Monday :)

Re: Shopify live dashboard

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Post by [deleted] »

halvo wrote: post #53
xal wrote: post #26

We have been doing BFCM dashboards for the past 10 years now. It's always one of the most fun projects at Shopify and a great tradition now. You know, it's pretty abstract to run internet software companies. Seeing a visualization like this makes it a lot more relateable even for the folks that work here. This year we packed it with lots of fun details ( https://twitter.com/Shopify/status/1728040379163771020 ). Like…

Is BFCM a well known acronym? I get that it’s about Black Friday but can’t figure out the CM and don’t see it written out anywhere

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Re: Shopify live dashboard

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Post by wkjagt »

halvo wrote: post #53
xal wrote: post #26

We have been doing BFCM dashboards for the past 10 years now. It's always one of the most fun projects at Shopify and a great tradition now. You know, it's pretty abstract to run internet software companies. Seeing a visualization like this makes it a lot more relateable even for the folks that work here. This year we packed it with lots of fun details ( https://twitter.com/Shopify/status/1728040379163771020 ). Like…

Is BFCM a well known acronym? I get that it’s about Black Friday but can’t figure out the CM and don’t see it written out anywhere

Cyber Monday

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Post by rickitan »

cloudking wrote: post #34
xal wrote: post #26

We have been doing BFCM dashboards for the past 10 years now. It's always one of the most fun projects at Shopify and a great tradition now. You know, it's pretty abstract to run internet software companies. Seeing a visualization like this makes it a lot more relateable even for the folks that work here. This year we packed it with lots of fun details ( https://twitter.com/Shopify/status/1728040379163771020 ). Like…

Awesome work! You should break down the development in a blog post

There's some interesting tech details on this thread: https://twitter.com/gilgNYC/status/1728066825013866543

Re: Shopify live dashboard

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Post by pushmatrix »

Omnipresent wrote: post #39

What library is used to make the frontend globe rendering? Its pretty fast and not laggy on my chrome browser.

We built it from scratch with React Three Fiber, a React library on top of three.js. Super powerful framework.

We'll be doing a full technical breakdown in a few weeks :)

Re: Shopify live dashboard

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Post by gravitronic »

aquova wrote: post #5

What is their basis for the "Carbon Removed" stat?

I see lots of criticism in this thread and elsewhere about that carbon removed stat. I would love to see more productive criticism, where people make suggestions on how they could do it better, instead of just criticizing a company of this scale at least doing something. Or examples of companies that are doing a better job of it.

Personally I'd prefer if they didn't call it carbon removed unless they were actually doubling the shipping carbon removal, and they should call it offsets unless it's all coming from some of their direct capture partners (which iirc Shopify does buy from).

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