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Engineering Imagination.

Toronto
Joined May 2009
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🚨🚨🚨 Our VENEZIA and TIFF rosters are locked and loaded. Tomorrow, the fest circuit's busiest fortnight and a half of the year begins, and we're once again doing double grid duties. Venice here: moir.ee/editions/venice26 Toronto here: moir.ee/editions/tiff26
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We've finished up all our FID Marseille viewing, and Patreon subscribers can now listen to our latest podcast, where several of our critics discuss the festival, incl. our highest rated comp entry: Jean-Claude Rousseau's LAST STOP FOR THE CIRCULAR TICKET! patreon.com/Moiree/posts/fid…
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The dust has just about settled on our Cannes grid, and we're happy to announce our Palme Moirée's: Competition: THE DREAMED ADVENTURE (Valeska Griseback): 3.95 from 10 ratings Overall: LA LIBERTAD DOBLE (Lisandro Alonso): 4.21 from 12 ratings patreon.com/posts/thats-wrap…
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You bet TIFFR is back for #TIFF50! The official schedule goes live at 10am and we should have it up soon after.
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Hey film fest buffs, the team behind TIFFR also recently launched @heyMOIREE, a platform that showcases real-time ratings from a curated community of film critics at festivals worldwide. We’ll be going strong for #TIFF24, check it out! moir.ee
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With Locarno wrapped, here's a summary of the @heyMOIREE panel's results. We'll see you again in a few weeks! moir.ee/editions/locarno24
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Moirée (@heyMOIREE ) is happy to have a critics panel at this year's Locarno Film Festival. Follow along starting tomorrow. moir.ee/editions/locarno24
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A new critics grid called MOIRÉE is launching for this year’s Cannes, featuring a formidable group of writers & programmers. Follow along starting tomorrow! moir.ee/editions/1 Big thanks to Mina Mikhail (@fightingtheboss) for designing the beautiful, customizable template.
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Proud and lucky to have worked with the teams that made the Storefront API 3x faster by moving rendering to the edge!
In @ShopifyEng we focus on building things as infrastructure 1. Imagine your dream environment for building something 2. Build your features on top of this ideal 3. Now implement this environment 🔑 This means we care deeply about HOW something is built, not just WHAT we build Here are some examples of the performance and simplification wins we had in '23 + bonus info on how we are using AI & our amazing BFCM stats 🚀 Yes there are emoji's in this URL 😅 shopify.com/news/performance…
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ACT II. A New Computer. 01.30.24 See you in January
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I really like this typeface: Brockmann, a font inspired by Josef Müller-Brockmann by atipo®. Download Medium weight for free! atipofoundry.com/fonts/brock… via @atipostudio
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We're live for #TIFF23 ! Check us out at tiffr.com. Which films are you excited to see this year?
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TIFFR will be back in full effect for #TIFF23. This’ll be 14 years straight, can’t break the streak now. (You knew we weren’t gonna let you down, right?)
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1960, Orson Welles explained how he wrangled complete creative control for his first film, Citizen Kane, as well as the value of “ignorance” to break through old ideas.
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I’ll be running for mayor of Toronto. Together, we can create an affordable, equitable, sustainable city, a Toronto for Everyone. Please share.
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BREAKING: Gil Penalosa @Penalosa_G, the globally respected urbanist who was the runner-up in the recent #Toronto Mayoral election (which was won by “unbeatable incumbent” #JohnTory, who resigned yesterday) has already confirmed that he'll run again for Mayor. VERY interesting!
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we can _finally_ talk about an experiment @GitHubNext in the works for a long time: GitHub Blocks! tldr ✨ There's a lot more to your codebase than just.. code. We want to make it easier to create interactive docs, support your team workflows, and bring your repo to life ✨ 🧵
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Over 100 films from @KinoLorber are now streaming for free on YouTube featuring work from King Hu, Christian Petzold, Jean-Luc Godard, Guy Maddin & more: bit.ly/3dDhFxn