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Just a couple of Shopify devs talking shop

JAN 5

#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

1h 48m
JAN 5

#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

1h 27m
11/11/2025

#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

1h 15m
10/22/2025

#27 "Hunky Bill Appreciation Day"

[00:00:00] Cold Open & Smile.io Ad Spot [00:01:23] Rocker Glow-Up & Compliments [00:03:24] Viral Tweet & Rails Rants [00:06:24] Spam DM Revenge Plots [00:09:27] Anthropic’s Ship-It Culture [00:12:56] Claude Power-User Tips [00:15:48] Parallelizing Dev Workflows [00:21:19] Hallmark-Sora Mashups [00:24:02] Meetups, BBLs & Cringe [00:27:32] Hunky Bill Appreciation Day [00:33:17] Reading Code vs Writing Code [00:40:17] 2,048 Variants Drop [00:46:04] Etsy Beats Shopify to GPT [00:50:22] Weekend Plans & Confidence

1 hr
10/15/2025

#26 "GCloud Goblin Mode"

00:00 – Cold open + Smile.io sponsor 01:13 – Friday vibes + late-night Claude sessions 02:09 – GCloud + SQL wizardry 03:47 – The nightmare that is Google Cloud’s UI 06:02 – Teaching Claude to remember stuff (and failing) 08:56 – Capturing AI context before it disappears 10:19 – Docker pain, Postgres pain, all the pain 12:32 – “I don’t read docs, I just ask Claude” 14:06 – Visualizing the LLM brain 15:18 – Sora jailbreaks itself and writes on a chalkboard 17:09 – The rise of AI social feeds 18:24 – Meme theory + Lord of the Riz 19:43 – Tobi’s been keylogging himself for 10 years 🤯 20:37 – Linus Torvalds: still committing daily 22:12 – Kalen admits he’s bad at working with people 23:27 – AI wireframes + prompt-based design 25:58 – Figma MCP dreams 27:46 – Flow builders that make you click too much 29:59 – A 5-year-old AWS site still running somehow 31:17 – Shoutout to Gil for fixing Shopify checkboxes 32:09 – Bulk editor blues + the $15 SaaS pitch 36:54 – Hidden variants + Tobi promises salvation 43:12 – Builder Sundays envy (do Austin next!) 46:49 – Meetup ideas + social dread 49:57 – Onboard B2B app vs rolling your own 57:22 – Getting warned in the Shopify Slack 😅 59:03 – Are we good people? (short therapy break) 1:02:18 – Pop Mart addiction + blind box economics 1:05:07 – Medusa vs Shopify + the B2B dream 1:07:26 – Pickleball + Scout weekend plans

1h 9m
09/24/2025

#25 "Declarative Metafields, Declarative Regrets"

00:00:00 – Lost in your own repo (zero-to-one brain fog) 00:01:24 – Country vs. metal: what’s actually more emotional? 00:03:11 – Never trust a web app turned desktop app 00:05:00 – Memory cores, ++i crimes, and C code nostalgia 00:09:07 – Luxury blow-up couches & festival life 00:10:17 – Smart glasses hit different: Meta, Oakleys, and the PR spin 00:12:27 – Privacy weird: everyone recording, everyone paranoid 00:13:55 – Cry-bait memory videos and why they always work 00:14:58 – Oakleys as pickleball uniform (my whole personality now) 00:15:44 – Listener shoutout: Peanut Butter Collective 00:16:40 – Villain marketing, underdogs, and community antagonists 00:21:22 – Analytics Monday: checkout funnel wins & bot filtering 00:25:32 – Shopify Knowledge Base app: query logs = secret FAQ gold 00:28:20 – AI follow-up calls (customers don’t even notice) 00:31:16 – Customer support at scale: doomed or fixable? 00:36:17 – Claude as the code filing cabinet 00:40:03 – GPT Pro, Cursor, and codebase indexing confusion 00:43:40 – Shopify forums > support tickets (Liam shoutout) 00:44:20 – Shop Worker news: first npm package & create-shopworker 00:46:03 – GPT-personalized quiz landing pages 00:48:15 – Declarative metafields: greenfield yes, migration nope 00:51:22 – Personal READMEs & ways of working 00:55:40 – Optimizing disagreeableness (and knowing your spectrum) 00:57:20 – Parenting, video games, and six-year-old attention spans 01:04:12 – Bitcoin, conspiracies, and oversharing online 01:10:26 – Healthy relationships, sharing ideas, and not just tweeting 01:13:18 – Wrapping up… and the recording dies

1h 6m
09/16/2025

#24 "Control Alt Dylan"

[00:00:00] X.com? Nah, It’s Still Twitter [00:05:00] Beating Algorithmic Sludge & Viral Trash [00:09:30] Forums, Flows & Community Hustles [00:14:00] Killing the Flow Checksum—Sidekick Dreams [00:21:00] RVShare Days & Birth of Real-ID [00:29:00] Review Anxiety and App-Store Politics [00:34:00] Claude, Multitasking & Git Work-Trees [00:40:00] Building a Mobile Admin from CLI Scripts [00:50:00] AI That Actually Ships Features [01:00:00] Burnout, TRT, and Lifestyle Refactors [01:11:00] BMX Wrecks, Lake Surfing & Sign-Off

1h 25m
09/04/2025

#23 "Living in the Terminal"

[00:00:00] Benchmarking the Benchmarks [00:03:40] Grok, Slack—Did We Record That? [00:06:00] Linear Side-Quest vs Jira [00:10:30] Living in the Terminal [00:15:20] Multi-Tasking with Work Trees [00:21:00] Vibe-Coding Envy at Shopify [00:27:00] Notebook LM Mind-Blown [00:35:00] Ads, Models & Monetization Rants [00:42:30] MedSync CLI Glow-Up [00:49:50] AI Downtime Meltdown [00:55:40] Retirement: Surf & Pottery Futures

1h 7m

Just a couple of Shopify devs talking shop

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Kalen Jordan
Years Active

2024 - 2026
Episodes

29
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Explicit
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