hi orange page, author here. QMD is an implementation of the best practices that I picked up in meetings with teams that work in search and retrieval. I tried to make it not overkill and keep things local. Currently working on finetuning better models for query extension and reranking (finetune branch). Feel free to jump in help. Self written and AI PRs welcome.

Cranking out open source tools one day, endurance racing in IMSA LMP2 the next — I love it. Condolences about the DNF, but truly an impressive run nonetheless (especially the first-lap recovery). Kudos to you and your team.

Heh, literally was training qwen3 finetunes during test sessions. Yea cruel sport, but its the low lows allow the high heights.

Looks neat! Does it require much resources to run locally?

Heh. That’s news to me too

looks like https://starship.rs/

same

Came here curious to see if you'd post; was not disappointed.

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 you might see fireworks when a store has their first ever sale, and there are lots of fun city stats which are part generated by GPT4. On desktop you can also open the nerd menu and play around with the settings and share the link to your creation.

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 :)

Only Cyber Monday started in July, on a Wednesday.

that acronym use became steadily more common/popular with marketers / social media in the past 5 years

Cyber Monday

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

Found this on YouTube: https://youtu.be/T1kkr8VMVqc?si=qq6JvEX2-kBL6jjL

+1, it's especially cool how it breaks down different statistics by city. Really great work.

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

I had an entire implementation that used a proper state machine but I couldn’t get it simple and small enough for this single file thing. The regexp chain is dumb but clear.

I've tried to eliminate language around being "too busy" from my vocabulary and attempt to replace it with "can't prioritize". That's sometimes a bit awkward, but really trains better habits. Sometimes I prioritize hobbies if I feel I need it, and doing this seemed fun and useful besides!

Thanks for your helpful response.

He have this in his Twitter bio: "CEO by day, Dad in evening, hacker at night"

I agree, I ended up getting rid of it. Only one dependency is downloaded (via bash script) and everything is baked into the binary now.

Nat coined this usage https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1668656170645749761

Lol, I’m totally using this to describe memory optimization from now on. There’s a lot of software out there that needs to be more ozempic.

GG would just say no and that's that. No hard feelings, that's what makes open source so great.