Eytan Seidman, VP of Product at Shopify, returns to the Liquid Weekly Podcast for a special Spring '26 Editions walkthrough with Karl and Taylor. 

It is a full tour of what is dropping for developers: static app home extensions, the App Events API, AI Kit, Sidekick app extensions going GA, the ongoing Dev Dashboard overhaul, a rebuilt logging experience, UCP and agentic commerce, next-gen events replacing webhooks, and the shift from Managed Pricing to Shopify App Pricing. Basically a whole episode of changelog. 

A must-listen for app developers, agencies, and anyone building on the Shopify platform.

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Timestamps
00:00 - Intro snippets
01:03 - Intros and welcoming back Eytan Seidman
02:17 - Static app home extensions: building apps fully on Shopify
08:08 - App Events API: observability and monitoring in Dev Dash
13:03 - AI Kit: store auth, store execute, and how it differs from MCP
17:54 - Sidekick app extensions GA: data and app action extensions
25:21 - Dev Dashboard overhaul: store and team management
31:34 - Logging overhaul: API requests, filtering, and unified logs
35:40 - Catalog improvements and the UCP CLI
38:16 - Building carts across merchants with UCP
40:35 - Agent to agent purchasing and accountability
44:04 - Next-gen events: rebuilding webhooks
52:08 - Shopify App Pricing: usage-based pricing and meters
58:27 - Closing: what Eytan is most excited for devs to try
1:00:50 - Picks of the Week

Picks of the Week

    Taylor: A MagSafe power bank. After his recording died in the fourth inning of his daughter's softball game, he picked one up so he can hot-swap batteries mid-game and record full-length games start to finish. https://amzn.to/4vXCZAj
    Karl: Atkins chocolate truffles, found in the reduced aisle at Kroger. A cheap, high-protein, low-carb sweet that hits the spot if you are doing keto. https://www.kroger.com/p/atkins-endul...
    Eytan: Two aviation books. Flying Blind by Dominic Gates, a Seattle Times reporter, on the 737 MAX and the fall of Boeing, tracing the program from the 1960s through the late 2010s: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5... And The Sporty Game, an older read on the early Boeing vs Airbus competition:   / 312480.the_sporty_game