talkingshop.dev

About talkingshop.dev

Just a couple of Shopify devs talking shop

Publisher

Kalen Jordan

Category

technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

7 Oct 2024

Latest episode

5 Jan 2026

Latest episodes

29 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   5 Jan 2026

   #30 "Mattress In Frame"

   [00:00:00] Rapid Reviews Roast & Founder Intro [00:00:33] smile.io Sponsor + Discount Warnings [00:01:13] Riverside Bugs & Tab Chaos [00:03:20] Tab Groups Are a Lie [00:05:14] Girlfriends, Surveillance & Live Anxiety [00:06:43] Shopify Outage: Who Cares? [00:08:07] Garage Office, Mattress Confessions [00:09:08] Surfing vs Work Schedules [00:10:14] Secret Builds & AI Projects [00:12:27] Cyber Monday Fallout Debate [00:14:00] Shoppable Video App Pitch [00:15:00] Live Shopping vs PDP Video [00:17:53] Shopify Key Rotation Failure [00:19:13] Shop App Growth Explained [00:21:47] Shop Minis: No Incentives? [00:23:28] Gamification, WeChat & Wordle [00:25:00] Pickleball Fight Story [00:29:46] Shop Mini AI Product Finder [00:30:03] Reviews Apps & Page Speed Wars [00:31:37] Shopify Review System Is Broken [00:34:01] Fake Reviews & Partner Crackdowns [00:38:25] PostHog, Session Replays & AI [00:44:18] AI Slang Mode Is Dumb [00:45:27] NYC Office Dreams [00:49:07] Marketers vs Developers [00:55:48] UX vs Performance [00:57:01] Page Speed Roast (Live) [01:03:18] Elon, Builders & Burnout [01:05:02] Horizon Theme & AI-Friendly Code [01:12:06] Web Performance Deep Dive [01:19:15] Free Tools, Real Costs [01:24:09] Frontend Anti-Patterns [01:27:16] AI Agents Writing SQL [01:35:18] Data Pipelines & DuckDB [01:41:23] Clickstream Analytics Explained [01:47:31] Final Chaos & Sign-Off

2. 

   5 Jan 2026

   #29 "The Webhook Support Group"

   [00:00:00] Cold Open & Community Praise [00:00:25] Sponsor: Smile.io (Black Friday Sponsorship) [00:01:05] Pre-Show Chaos & Stream Setup [00:02:00] Stress, Vision, and “Taking It to the Moon” [00:03:20] Bros Vibes, Community Energy & Coralie Joins [00:03:54] Shopify Community Royalty & Pronunciation Debates [00:05:01] Mapping the Shopify Ecosystem (Who’s Best at What) [00:06:43] Europe vs USA, Vacations, and Work Culture [00:07:09] What It’s Like Working at Shopify [00:07:55] Black Friday Internals & The Mystery of Dashboards [00:08:40] Shopify Secrecy, Leaks, and Transparency [00:08:59] Guests Roll In & Chicken Nuggets Lore [00:10:21] Social Media Detox & Twitter vs LinkedIn [00:17:31] Shopify Forums vs Slack & Community Evolution [00:19:31] Global Time Zones, India at 4AM [00:20:15] Freelancing, Prepay, Storetasker & Real Hourly Rates [00:22:00] Black Friday Performance: Up, Down, or Flat? [00:23:46] Enterprise Clients, Aggregated Data & BF Trends [00:24:48] Layers, Search Scale & Massive Volume Numbers [00:25:11] Shopify Search vs Enterprise Reality [00:26:01] Tagless, Merchandising & Server-Side Tradeoffs [00:27:29] Jake’s Search Architecture Deep Dive [00:29:12] Burnout, AI Agencies & What Comes Next [00:30:19] Toronto, New York, London & Meetups [00:31:21] AI Fixing the Economy & The Future of Work [00:33:09] Shopify Secrecy Revisited & “Fake Leaks” Debate [00:36:46] Black Friday Horror Stories (Logs, AWS Bills) [00:44:31] Cloudflare vs AWS vs Edge Performance [00:47:03] Databases, D1 Limits & Scaling Nightmares [00:50:03] React, Search Tech & Platform Economics [00:54:01] Web Performance, Core Web Vitals & Client Myths [00:57:00] Freelance Pricing, Bespoke Builds & Reality Checks [00:59:49] The React vs Signals / “sin.js” Argument [01:02:26] Shopify Innovation: Reality vs Perception [01:07:27] Enterprise Truth: Why Brands Really Leave [01:10:53] B2B, Markets & Shopify’s Hardest Problems [01:14:31] Centra vs Shopify: Architecture & Scale [01:18:34] Big Brands, Market Concentration & the Future [01:22:29] AI Commerce, Neural Links & Buying With Thoughts [01:23:46] Wrapping Up, Sign-Offs & Sleep Deprivation [01:24:05] Shopline Conspiracy & Final Chaos

3. 

   11 Nov 2025

   #28 "They Call Me "IT Dave"

   00:00 - Intro & Smile.io Sponsorship 01:22 - Programmer or whatever we are 01:52 - Dave’s alter-egos and promo quotas 03:15 - Wizard hats and Halloween strategy 05:10 - Token Dave and the AI leaderboard 08:00 - Kalen’s Shop Minis experiments 11:40 - Mystery boxes, swipes, and feedback loops 18:00 - Product descriptions and brand voice 24:30 - Checkout testing and PDQ deep dive 27:20 - Claude Code, Codex, and context hoarding 33:10 - Git work trees, DBT, and late-night agent coding 38:30 - Modal debugging and test automation pain 44:00 - Cookie banners, Nacho Libre, and existential dev talk 47:00 - Hiring stories, fashion jobs, and North Carolina dreams 50:40 - Claude reading secrets and the security rabbit hole 51:55 - “Find the Shopify PM” 52:45 - ShopifyQL and analytics tinkering 53:57 - AI-driven emails and the LTV flashback 1:01:00 - Brand voice and prompt tuning 1:07:00 - Testing at scale with AI 1:10:00 - SaaS vendor therapy and A/B test chaos 1:13:00 - Wrapping up: Minis, optimism, and candy plans

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