Just a couple of Shopify devs talking shop

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Just a couple of Shopify devs talking shop
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Recent Episodes

January 5, 2026
#30 "Mattress In Frame"
<p>[00:00:00] Rapid Reviews Roast & Founder Intro</p><p>[00:00:33] smile.io Sponsor + Discount Warnings</p><p>[00:01:13] Riverside Bugs & Tab Chaos</p><p>[00:03:20] Tab Groups Are a Lie</p><p>[00:05:14] Girlfriends, Surveillance & Live Anxiety</p><p>[00:06:43] Shopify Outage: Who Cares?</p><p>[00:08:07] Garage Office, Mattress Confessions</p><p>[00:09:08] Surfing vs Work Schedules</p><p>[00:10:14] Secret Builds & AI Projects</p><p>[00:12:27] Cyber Monday Fallout Debate</p><p>[00:14:00] Shoppable Video App Pitch</p><p>[00:15:00] Live Shopping vs PDP Video</p><p>[00:17:53] Shopify Key Rotation Failure</p><p>[00:19:13] Shop App Growth Explained</p><p>[00:21:47] Shop Minis: No Incentives?</p><p>[00:23:28] Gamification, WeChat & Wordle</p><p>[00:25:00] Pickleball Fight Story</p><p>[00:29:46] Shop Mini AI Product Finder</p><p>[00:30:03] Reviews Apps & Page Speed Wars</p><p>[00:31:37] Shopify Review System Is Broken</p><p>[00:34:01] Fake Reviews & Partner Crackdowns</p><p>[00:38:25] PostHog, Session Replays & AI</p><p>[00:44:18] AI Slang Mode Is Dumb</p><p>[00:45:27] NYC Office Dreams</p><p>[00:49:07] Marketers vs Developers</p><p>[00:55:48] UX vs Performance</p><p>[00:57:01] Page Speed Roast (Live)</p><p>[01:03:18] Elon, Builders & Burnout</p><p>[01:05:02] Horizon Theme & AI-Friendly Code</p><p>[01:12:06] Web Performance Deep Dive</p><p>[01:19:15] Free Tools, Real Costs</p><p>[01:24:09] Frontend Anti-Patterns</p><p>[01:27:16] AI Agents Writing SQL</p><p>[01:35:18] Data Pipelines & DuckDB</p><p>[01:41:23] Clickstream Analytics Explained</p><p>[01:47:31] Final Chaos & Sign-Off</p>

January 5, 2026
#29 "The Webhook Support Group"
<p>[00:00:00] Cold Open & Community Praise</p><p>[00:00:25] Sponsor: Smile.io (Black Friday Sponsorship)</p><p><br /></p><p>[00:01:05] Pre-Show Chaos & Stream Setup</p><p>[00:02:00] Stress, Vision, and “Taking It to the Moon”</p><p>[00:03:20] Bros Vibes, Community Energy & Coralie Joins</p><p><br /></p><p>[00:03:54] Shopify Community Royalty & Pronunciation Debates</p><p>[00:05:01] Mapping the Shopify Ecosystem (Who’s Best at What)</p><p>[00:06:43] Europe vs USA, Vacations, and Work Culture</p><p><br /></p><p>[00:07:09] What It’s Like Working at Shopify</p><p>[00:07:55] Black Friday Internals & The Mystery of Dashboards</p><p>[00:08:40] Shopify Secrecy, Leaks, and Transparency</p><p><br /></p><p>[00:08:59] Guests Roll In & Chicken Nuggets Lore</p><p>[00:10:21] Social Media Detox & Twitter vs LinkedIn</p><p>[00:17:31] Shopify Forums vs Slack & Community Evolution</p><p><br /></p><p>[00:19:31] Global Time Zones, India at 4AM</p><p>[00:20:15] Freelancing, Prepay, Storetasker & Real Hourly Rates</p><p>[00:22:00] Black Friday Performance: Up, Down, or Flat?</p><p><br /></p><p>[00:23:46] Enterprise Clients, Aggregated Data & BF Trends</p><p>[00:24:48] Layers, Search Scale & Massive Volume Numbers</p><p><br /></p><p>[00:25:11] Shopify Search vs Enterprise Reality</p><p>[00:26:01] Tagless, Merchandising & Server-Side Tradeoffs</p><p>[00:27:29] Jake’s Search Architecture Deep Dive</p><p><br /></p><p>[00:29:12] Burnout, AI Agencies & What Comes Next</p><p>[00:30:19] Toronto, New York, London & Meetups</p><p>[00:31:21] AI Fixing the Economy & The Future of Work</p><p><br /></p><p>[00:33:09] Shopify Secrecy Revisited & “Fake Leaks” Debate</p><p>[00:36:46] Black Friday Horror Stories (Logs, AWS Bills)</p><p>[00:44:31] Cloudflare vs AWS vs Edge Performance</p><p><br /></p><p>[00:47:03] Databases, D1 Limits & Scaling Nightmares</p><p>[00:50:03] React, Search Tech & Platform Economics</p><p><br /></p><p>[00:54:01] Web Performance, Core Web Vitals & Client Myths</p><p>[00:57:00] Freelance Pricing, Bespoke Builds & Reality Checks</p><p><br /></p><p>[00:59:49] The React vs Signals / “sin.js” Argument</p><p>[01:02:26] Shopify Innovation: Reality vs Perception</p><p><br /></p><p>[01:07:27] Enterprise Truth: Why Brands Really Leave</p><p>[01:10:53] B2B, Markets & Shopify’s Hardest Problems</p><p><br /></p><p>[01:14:31] Centra vs Shopify: Architecture & Scale</p><p>[01:18:34] Big Brands, Market Concentration & the Future</p><p><br /></p><p>[01:22:29] AI Commerce, Neural Links & Buying With Thoughts</p><p>[01:23:46] Wrapping Up, Sign-Offs & Sleep Deprivation</p><p><br /></p><p>[01:24:05] Shopline Conspiracy & Final Chaos</p>

November 11, 2025
#28 "They Call Me "IT Dave"
<p>00:00 - Intro & Smile.io Sponsorship </p><p>01:22 - Programmer or whatever we are </p><p>01:52 - Dave’s alter-egos and promo quotas </p><p>03:15 - Wizard hats and Halloween strategy </p><p>05:10 - Token Dave and the AI leaderboard </p><p>08:00 - Kalen’s Shop Minis experiments </p><p>11:40 - Mystery boxes, swipes, and feedback loops </p><p>18:00 - Product descriptions and brand voice </p><p>24:30 - Checkout testing and PDQ deep dive </p><p>27:20 - Claude Code, Codex, and context hoarding </p><p>33:10 - Git work trees, DBT, and late-night agent coding </p><p>38:30 - Modal debugging and test automation pain </p><p>44:00 - Cookie banners, Nacho Libre, and existential dev talk </p><p>47:00 - Hiring stories, fashion jobs, and North Carolina dreams </p><p>50:40 - Claude reading secrets and the security rabbit hole </p><p>51:55 - “Find the Shopify PM” </p><p>52:45 - ShopifyQL and analytics tinkering </p><p>53:57 - AI-driven emails and the LTV flashback </p><p>1:01:00 - Brand voice and prompt tuning </p><p>1:07:00 - Testing at scale with AI </p><p>1:10:00 - SaaS vendor therapy and A/B test chaos </p><p>1:13:00 - Wrapping up: Minis, optimism, and candy plans</p>
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