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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. Filtered collection grids return only the product list, cutting payload from 340KB to 42KB on scroll. Variant-aware recommendations re-render with section_id when a swatch...
Read articleReplacing Webpack DevServer With Bun Hot Reload: 14 Lines, 3.2x Faster
Webpack DevServer ate 250MB and took 4.1s to start 14 lines of Bun replaced it with WebSocket HMR Cold start dropped from 4.1s to 1.3s,...
Why I Ship Blog Articles in Clusters of 3 (Not Daily)
Daily blogging burns you out and scatters topical authority across unrelated posts. A cluster of 3 means one theme, three angles, published in one or...
Build a Magnific to Shopify Image Pipeline in 5 Minutes
Generate a 4096px hero in Magnific in under a minute Resize to four responsive variants with a six-line bash script Push every variant to Shopify...
Solo Studio Bookkeeping in 90 Minutes a Month: My Stack and Routine
My bookkeeping stack costs 30 EUR a month and runs on four tools. I spend 15 minutes a week on receipts and 60 minutes monthly...
5 Type Scales I Use in 2026 (And the One I Quietly Dropped)
Major-third 1.250 stays my default for product UI because it scales without drama Perfect-fourth 1.333 carries marketing pages where the headline must do real work...
Server-Sent Events Beat WebSockets for 80% of My AI Streaming UIs: 5 Patterns
Server-Sent Events handle 80% of AI streaming UIs with one HTTP connection and zero WebSocket overhead. 5 production patterns with code.
Claude Security Goes Public Beta: Repo Scanning, Vuln Explainer, Patch Guidance
Claude Security entered public beta on May 2026, scanning repos and explaining vulnerabilities for Claude Enterprise customers only Three core capabilities ship now: full repo...
Claude Connectors Now Reach Into Adobe, Blender, Ableton, Affinity, And Fusion
Claude Connectors now hook into Adobe, Blender, Ableton Live, Affinity, and Autodesk Fusion via MCP. Real workflow tests across motion, design, music, and 3D.
PostHog Error Tracking Killed My Sentry Bill
Sentry cost me 80 EUR/month for ~12k errors that PostHog now catches on the free tier posthog-js already loaded on the storefront, so error tracking...
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 spend Shopify Functions ship as compiled wasm...
Bun Shell Replaced Every Bash Script in My Studio
I deleted 1,400 lines of bash and 23 scripts, replaced by 600 lines of Bun Shell TypeScript Bun Shell ($`...`) gives typed args, automatic escaping,...