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Shopify Checkout Extensibility: 4 UI Extension Patterns I Shipped This Month
Post-purchase upsell with BlockStack on the thank-you page added 11% to AOV in 3 weeks of testing
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Working notes from the studio. The tools I build, the workflows I keep, the mistakes I paid for.
43 entries · latest 2026-09-19
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From Notion to Shopify Pages via API: A 50-Line Sync Script
A 50-line TypeScript script syncs Notion database pages to Shopify Pages via the Admin REST API
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Effect-TS in Production: 4 Patterns I Use Across Shopify Backends
Effect-TS replaced try/catch and ad-hoc retries across 3 Shopify backends and cut error-handling code by roughly 40 percent
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Theme App Extensions vs Section Schemas in 2026: When to Pick Which
Theme App Extensions ship blocks across many themes via the App Store, ideal for distributed apps with version…
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Build a Telegram Alert Bot for Shopify Orders in 30 Lines of TypeScript
A Bun serverless function on Vercel turns Shopify orders/create webhooks into Telegram pings in under 5s
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Shopify Section Rendering API: 6 Patterns That Cut Storefront TTFB by 60%
Cart drawer refresh swaps one section in 180ms instead of reloading the full PDP at 1.2s.
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Build a Magnific to Shopify Image Pipeline in 5 Minutes
Generate a 4096px hero in Magnific in under a minute
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Shopify Functions Replaced 8 Apps In One Saturday
Cancelled 8 paid apps in one Saturday and dropped 180 EUR/month off the app bill to zero recurring…
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5 Vercel Edge Config Patterns I Use For Shopify A/B Tests
Edge Config reads in ~15ms at the edge, no cold start, no extra request to Shopify
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5 Cloudflare Workers Patterns I Use for Shopify Edge Logic
5 production Cloudflare Workers patterns for Shopify backends: A/B testing, geo banners, signed customer URLs, AI personalization, webhook…
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The 5 Postgres Extensions Every Shopify Backend Needs
pg_cron, pgvector, pg_partman, pg_stat_statements, postgres_fdw. The five extensions that turn generic Postgres into a Shopify-aware database.
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The 8 Drizzle ORM Patterns I Use in Every Shopify Backend
Schema-first pgTable definitions and drizzle-kit migrations keep my Shopify backend predictable across 6 projects.