Tobias Lütke
Co-founder and CEO of Shopify; long-time Linux user and Omarchy contributor.
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Where they publish
Too-biasedSite Their own blog. Infrequent, and long when it appears.
A sparse personal blog — essays on building Shopify, on tools and on how they think about work, published a few times a year. Has a feed.
Recent
- We need to talk about carbon 22 Dec 2019
- In Support of Free Speech (Update) 13 Aug 2018
- The Future Role of Human Excellence 17 Jul 2018
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- The case for swagger: Canadians have a lot to be proud of 22 May 2018
- Canadian CEO [...] you've probably never heard of 27 Dec 2014
- Good at making decisions 30 Oct 2013
- Jason Calacanis interviews me on the future of retail 8 Aug 2013
- The Apprentice Programmer 3 Mar 2013
- Pick your compass metric 21 Feb 2013
Link verified 1 Sept 2026. Recent items update automatically from the channel.
@tobix.com The main channel: near-daily, and where positions get stated.
High-volume posts and replies on building companies, AI at work, and craft. Almost everything on this site was said here rather than on the blog.
Recent
- This would be 5x more than the average per length. In a country with endless space and flat terrain. Why is this? We should build, but much faster and much mor… 1 Sept 2026
- RT @RhysSullivan: I feel like this video is worth a watch for the answer of the question of "what will software engineering after agents be… 1 Sept 2026
- RT @jmeller: Omarchy Quattro is already the #3 Linux distro by active 1Password users. Even crazier, on the weekends it's #1, beating out U… 1 Sept 2026
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- so so good 31 Aug 2026
- Always been the cause of this nonsense. And why would you blamed them. Cheap way to stay in the game. 29 Aug 2026
- RT @patrickc: Met a German founder this week and asked him if all the stories one reads about the challenges of startups in Germany are exa… 29 Aug 2026
- RT @DanielDiMartino: I think the IMF has never praised a country's government as much as they have @JMilei and it's absolutely deserved. M… 29 Aug 2026
- RT @DailySowell: “No society ever thrived because it had a large and growing class of parasites living off those who produce.” — Thomas So… 28 Aug 2026
- RT @benjaminsehl: 🎉🎉 let’s go!! s/o @vercel @mttlws `eve add connection/shopify` https://t.co/BahW90hrNg 28 Aug 2026
- RT @ConradMBlack: This trade disagreement is bound to hurt Canadians, but it could ultimately catalyse Canada’s metamorphosis into one of t… 28 Aug 2026
- RT @GlobalAffairs: The X Safety team conducted an investigation into suspected Chinese inauthentic accounts involved in influence operation… 28 Aug 2026
- Yes what could possibly have happened 27 Aug 2026
- RT @TristinHopper: In 2000, Canada generated 606,377 gigawatt-hours of electricity. We had 30 million people, basically no EVs, and no mand… 27 Aug 2026
- RT @lexfridman: Here's my conversation with @DHH. He is back for round 2! It was an epic fun 5 hour conversation about the future of progra… 26 Aug 2026
- UCP, the universal commerce protocol is growing better and better https://t.co/wAP6kW3qGw 26 Aug 2026
- RT @igrigorik: @ChatGPT built-in browser speaks WebMCP and millions of @Shopify storefronts are live and ready! 🎉 That's a huge milestone… 26 Aug 2026
- RT @OpenAIDevs: The WebMCP Challenge is here. We’ve teamed up with @ChromiumDev, @CloudflareDev, @ShopifyDevs, @vercel, @render, and @Netl… 25 Aug 2026
- look at that 25 Aug 2026
- RT @trq212: @tobi Hi Tobi, thanks for the feedback! We are working on making Claude Code more hackable, which will include being able to ea… 25 Aug 2026
- RT @perplexity_ai: Today we’re launching Portable Computer on @NVIDIA DGX Spark. Portable Computer is a fully local version of Perplexity… 25 Aug 2026
Link verified 1 Sept 2026. Recent items update automatically from the channel.
tobiGitHub Still committing, twenty years in.
The account of someone who kept writing code while running a large company — Shopify-era Ruby work and a long tail of experiments since.
Recent
- duckdb_motorsport_telemetry — Fast DuckDB extension and Rust parsers for Cosworth PDS, MoTeC LD, and VBOX VBO telemetry 1 Sept 2026
- motorsport-telemetry-rs — fast Rust libraries for motorsport telemetry, sessions, video, GPS, and track metadata 1 Sept 2026
- pi-herdr-workers — Pi + Herdr: /team worker panes, /loop re-wakes, and MonitorCreate/List/Stop 1 Sept 2026
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- omatrack — Native cross-format motorsport telemetry analysis workstation 31 Aug 2026
- wrap — Run coding agents and project commands inside isolated Arch Linux microVMs 31 Aug 2026
- omasnap — Native Wayland screenshot and annotation editor for Omarchy and Hyprland 31 Aug 2026
- walgit 27 Aug 2026
- ac-tracer — Homebrew telemetry suite for the Assetto Corsa for practicing motorsports. Can load real life trace data for correlation. 23 Aug 2026
- reve — The directory is the agent: durable Ruby coding agents in mandatory microsandbox microVMs 22 Aug 2026
- dotfiles 19 Aug 2026
- qmd — mini cli search engine for your docs, knowledge bases, meeting notes, whatever. Tracking current sota approaches while being all local 18 Aug 2026
- try — fresh directories for every vibe 16 Aug 2026
- omarchy-launch-screensaver — Native Wayland screensaver for Omarchy. Links ttfx drop-in for omarchy-launch-screensaver. Skips the terminal. 16 Aug 2026
- imsa_data 16 Aug 2026
Link verified 1 Sept 2026. Recent items update automatically from the channel.
On this site
What they believeKorents 4 beliefs — each backed by an exact quote.
The one-line wordings are this site's; the quotes are theirs. What is a korent?
Recent
Coding agents should read the shared AGENTS.md convention; insisting on a tool-specific CLAUDE.md creates split-brain problems across a team.
I’m thinking about banning Claude code at Shopify until they change their mind and read AGENTS.md and .agents/skills etc. Insisting on only reading CLAUDE.md sometimes leads to split brain problems when different team members use different tools. Just unnecessary.
@tobi on X Said 25 Aug 2026
Requiring two parallel agent instruction files in a monorepo is a complexity tax that leaves some developers working with a lobotomised agent.
With thousands of developed in a mono repo, it just does happen that one directory is missing one of the two files and this means that a subset of devs work with lobotomy. We fix this with automation but it’s a stupid complexity tax that shouldn’t have to be paid.
@tobi on X Said 25 Aug 2026
Customising an operating system by asking an agent replaces esoteric config syntax as the way customisation actually works.
Now you can have a quake style console in your operating system. Except with an infinitely patient agent to help you customize it instead of esoteric variable names and slash commands like in the 90s
@tobi on X Said 18 Aug 2026
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You can now simply ask for the desktop tools you want and have them built, instead of finding or writing them yourself.
You can literally just wish for the tools you want now. Omarchy has every skill to make them. It’s magical.
@tobi on X Said 11 Aug 2026
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- duckdb_motorsport_telemetry — Fast DuckDB extension and Rust parsers for Cosworth PDS, MoTeC LD, and VBOX VBO telemetry 1 Sept
- motorsport-telemetry-rs — fast Rust libraries for motorsport telemetry, sessions, video, GPS, and track metadata 1 Sept
- This would be 5x more than the average per length. In a country with endless space and flat terrain. Why is this? We should build, but much faster and much mor… 1 Sept
- RT @RhysSullivan: I feel like this video is worth a watch for the answer of the question of "what will software engineering after agents be… 1 Sept
- pi-herdr-workers — Pi + Herdr: /team worker panes, /loop re-wakes, and MonitorCreate/List/Stop 1 Sept
- RT @jmeller: Omarchy Quattro is already the #3 Linux distro by active 1Password users. Even crazier, on the weekends it's #1, beating out U… 1 Sept
Show 36 more
- omatrack — Native cross-format motorsport telemetry analysis workstation 31 Aug
- wrap — Run coding agents and project commands inside isolated Arch Linux microVMs 31 Aug
- omasnap — Native Wayland screenshot and annotation editor for Omarchy and Hyprland 31 Aug
- so so good 31 Aug
- Always been the cause of this nonsense. And why would you blamed them. Cheap way to stay in the game. 29 Aug
- RT @patrickc: Met a German founder this week and asked him if all the stories one reads about the challenges of startups in Germany are exa… 29 Aug
- RT @DanielDiMartino: I think the IMF has never praised a country's government as much as they have @JMilei and it's absolutely deserved. M… 29 Aug
- RT @DailySowell: “No society ever thrived because it had a large and growing class of parasites living off those who produce.” — Thomas So… 28 Aug
- RT @benjaminsehl: 🎉🎉 let’s go!! s/o @vercel @mttlws `eve add connection/shopify` https://t.co/BahW90hrNg 28 Aug
- RT @ConradMBlack: This trade disagreement is bound to hurt Canadians, but it could ultimately catalyse Canada’s metamorphosis into one of t… 28 Aug
- RT @GlobalAffairs: The X Safety team conducted an investigation into suspected Chinese inauthentic accounts involved in influence operation… 28 Aug
- Yes what could possibly have happened 27 Aug
- RT @TristinHopper: In 2000, Canada generated 606,377 gigawatt-hours of electricity. We had 30 million people, basically no EVs, and no mand… 27 Aug
- walgit 27 Aug
- RT @lexfridman: Here's my conversation with @DHH. He is back for round 2! It was an epic fun 5 hour conversation about the future of progra… 26 Aug
- UCP, the universal commerce protocol is growing better and better https://t.co/wAP6kW3qGw 26 Aug
- Requiring two parallel agent instruction files in a monorepo is a complexity tax that leaves some developers working with a lobotomised agent. 25 Aug
- Coding agents should read the shared AGENTS.md convention; insisting on a tool-specific CLAUDE.md creates split-brain problems across a team. 25 Aug
- ac-tracer — Homebrew telemetry suite for the Assetto Corsa for practicing motorsports. Can load real life trace data for correlation. 23 Aug
- reve — The directory is the agent: durable Ruby coding agents in mandatory microsandbox microVMs 22 Aug
- dotfiles 19 Aug
- qmd — mini cli search engine for your docs, knowledge bases, meeting notes, whatever. Tracking current sota approaches while being all local 18 Aug
- Customising an operating system by asking an agent replaces esoteric config syntax as the way customisation actually works. 18 Aug
- try — fresh directories for every vibe 16 Aug
- omarchy-launch-screensaver — Native Wayland screensaver for Omarchy. Links ttfx drop-in for omarchy-launch-screensaver. Skips the terminal. 16 Aug
- imsa_data 16 Aug
- You can now simply ask for the desktop tools you want and have them built, instead of finding or writing them yourself. 11 Aug
- We need to talk about carbon 22 Dec 2019
- In Support of Free Speech (Update) 13 Aug 2018
- The Future Role of Human Excellence 17 Jul 2018
- The case for swagger: Canadians have a lot to be proud of 22 May 2018
- Canadian CEO [...] you've probably never heard of 27 Dec 2014
- Good at making decisions 30 Oct 2013
- Jason Calacanis interviews me on the future of retail 8 Aug 2013
- The Apprentice Programmer 3 Mar 2013
- Pick your compass metric 21 Feb 2013