Matt

Matt

@mawburn.com

Software Engineer | ex-Shopify

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This started as an expanded LinkedIn post about leaving Shopify. Instead, it became a look back at 5½ years of software engineering: Checkout Editor, developer tools, the people who shaped my career, and how the hell I ended up there in the first place. mawburn.com/blog/2026-10...

mawburn.comLooking back at more than 5 years at ShopifyLooking back at nearly 5½ years at Shopify, from building the Checkout Editor to bringing LibreChat to thousands of employees, and the incredible engineers I worked alongside. It's made me realize jus...

So I've been trying to eat healthier and mostly cut out sodas, drinking stuff like @drinkliquiddeath.bsky.social and sugar-free drinks instead. I've lost like 15lbs over a few months. But damn, everything's too sweet now. Can't even drink Mt Dews anymore. At least I can still do slushies though.

There is something indescribably cool about talking to a couple leaders of a small company that you love, and taking them into moving their e-commerce to the platform you work for. #Shopify #TTRPG

Been running a fun experiment (not recommending this): letting Claude Opus 4 Deep Research pick my stocks for 3ish months Started at $1,062 after taking a loss (the dip in the graph). Now at $1,637 (+54%) Just play money in an old account, but the results are... fun 1/3

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What I have Claude analyze: ⮕ Macro factors (interest rates, inflation, sector rotation) ⮕ Geopolitical risks/opportunities ⮕ Near-term catalysts (earnings, news flow) ⮕ 2-8 week price movements Basically finding stocks positioned for current macro trends with upcoming catalysts 3/3

Been running a fun experiment (not recommending this): letting Claude Opus 4 Deep Research pick my stocks for 3ish months Started at $1,062 after taking a loss (the dip in the graph). Now at $1,637 (+54%) Just play money in an old account, but the results are... fun 1/3

The approach: ⮕ Focus on swing trades (2-8 week holds) ⮕ Run multiple iterations with Claude until picks converge ⮕ Cross-check with ChatGPT deep research for validation Currently in 2 gold ETFs, one just hit take-profit this morning, 3 completed trades so far 2/3

I think my favorite part of the AI code tooling, is the fact that I can bang out any random stupid idea I have without putting much thought into it as long as I give it clear instructions up front. ...I guess that could probably be a bad thing too. 😅

I pulled my Claude Code stats last week and I've used ~3.4 BILLION tokens since April. How much is too much? Asking for a friend.

I don't even want to talk about how much I've spent on it. 😅 My company is ok with the cost though. I was only #4 last week & #5 this week. I've been using Claude Code for: ・Navigating large codebases ・Creating robust multi-step plans ・Based on the plans, making bulk changes. I audit everything!

I'm late to the game, but I've recently been falling in love with Junji Ito's work. It's all so wonderfully fucked up!

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Replying to @danabra.mov

since this keeps going around, a few common clarifications: - no pay-to-play. we won’t prioritize comments of subscribers - we don’t plan to do Twitter-style “paid checkmarks” - if we do add a “supporter” profile badge, it will be hideable - bookmarks will be free (when we get to them)

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