Issue 228 - The 10 AI Tools I use Daily
The 10 AI Tools I Use Daily as a Shopify Agency Owner
Recorded live at Smart Marketer Mentor Tables in Nashville, this is Kurt's full talk on why most people are bad at AI and what to do about it. The pitch was that AI would let you do less work and produce better output. What actually happened: everyone is producing more slop, faster.
By ethercycle
Episode 64 – When Shopify Functions Fail Silently: The 10KB Limit Nobody Told You About
Taylor breaks down major changes to the Shopify Theme Editor, and Karl shares a real-world debugging war story about a Shopify Function that was silently discarding all its input — and the 10KB metafield limit that caused it.
By Liquid Weekly
Claude Code for Shopify: 10 Mistakes That Will Break Your Store
I've been using Claude Code on live Shopify stores for months. Here are 10 mistakes I made that broke things — and how to avoid them.
By Will Misback
Write unit tests for Shopify UI extensions
This testing library provides strongly typed mocks of the extension API--like the shopify global--so you can verify the correctness of your extension without needing a real Shopify host.
By Shopify
Why Shopify Rejected Microservices (And What They Did Instead)
In this video, I break down how Shopify evolved its architecture into a modular monolith, why that decision made sense at their scale, and what lessons apply directly to building large systems in .NET.
By Milan Jovanović
Lightweight Shopify 2.0 section that lets merchants build product recommendation quizzes
Simple Shopify Product Quiz is a free Shopify section that helps customers find the best product for their needs. Add it to your theme, connect up to four possible product recommendations, create a few quiz questions, and the section will recommend the product that scores the most points
By Stephen Savoia
What does a Shopify developer actually do?
After about seven years working as a Shopify developer, I still regularly get asked this question - and honestly, it makes complete sense. Shopify does a brilliant job of letting merchants build a storefront without ever touching a line of code, so why would you need a developer at all?
By Christopher Dodd
11 Shopify apps you didn't know you needed but are worth adding
I spent weeks curating this list: 11 Shopify apps you didn't know you needed but are worth adding to your store. Every "best Shopify apps" list recommends the same 10 apps. Klaviyo, JudgeMe, Klarna. Repeat. Those apps are great. But they're also on every store. They're not your edge anymore.
By Mark Yeramian
