Philo Hermans

Tweeting about AI, Laravel, Livewire, Shopify, macOS, and iOS apps, and SaaS. Projects 👉🏻

[Philo Hermans @Philo01]

So far this has worked every time I tried. Merchant doesn't reply to any email / ignores me. So I start searching for their phone number, (had to buy a phone app this time because they blocked international numbers 😂) and got the merchant on the phone.

I can just hear how surprised they are. On the phone they are super polite and kind. Explained the situation again and they updated their review. Confirmed our conversation via email and surprise surprise, this time they replied.

[Philo Hermans @Philo01]

Meanwhile, I just received a review about Shopify billing.

Billing issues should not go straight to published app reviews, imo.

They should first become a support ticket with the app developer and Shopify Support, where the issue can actually be checked and resolved.

Reviews should be about the app experience, not platform billing confusion.

[Philo Hermans @Philo01]

@Bonthoux It's getting worse by the day 😅 Shopify is staying silent. I really hope they are working on something.
https://t.co/dHDXSd9PV5

[Philo Hermans @Philo01]

Meanwhile, I just received a review about Shopify billing.

Billing issues should not go straight to published app reviews, imo.

They should first become a support ticket with the app developer and Shopify Support, where the issue can actually be checked and resolved.

Reviews should be about the app experience, not platform billing confusion.

[Philo Hermans @Philo01]

@faridmovsumov I'm hoping they will spare you the 1-star review 😅 always sucks that partners are first to be blamed while its outside our control

[Philo Hermans @Philo01]

@fraxool Same here, but also GraphQL 😅

[Philo Hermans @Philo01]

@TRPage_dev @ShopDevAlliance Getting a ton of API errors as well

[Philo Hermans @Philo01]

@ecombeckett There is, but they closed their store during the trial period, opened it again two months later, Shopify resumes billing as the trial period has now past. Merchant uninstalls the app but Shopify still charged for the first period.

[Philo Hermans @Philo01]

Meanwhile, I just received a review about Shopify billing.

Billing issues should not go straight to published app reviews, imo.

They should first become a support ticket with the app developer and Shopify Support, where the issue can actually be checked and resolved.

Reviews should be about the app experience, not platform billing confusion.

[Farid @faridmovsumov]

I don't know how obvious this can be at this point 🤦‍♂️

[Philo Hermans @Philo01]

@faridmovsumov 😂

[Philo Hermans @Philo01]

@patjakubik I really wish Shopify would give partners more control on this. Every time something like this is posted, it stays completely silent on @ShopifyDevs end...

The system is so broken. With this kind of evidence they should remove the review/rating. We should be able to appeal.

[Jordi Boggiano @seldaek]

Composer 2.10 is out.

Native malware filtering via @AikidoSecurity, enabled by default on @Packagist. Plus a unified config.policy framework, deprecated source fallback, and wildcards in --with.

#php #phpc #composerphp

[Philo Hermans @Philo01]

@faridmovsumov Hoping they get the review part right and not wipe a dozen legit reviews again like during the previous purge 😅

[Philo Hermans @Philo01]

Developers in 2026

[Philo Hermans @Philo01]

Developers in 2026

[Philo Hermans @Philo01]

@Ruv3c Tagged 2.0.8 :) let me know if that works

[Philo Hermans @Philo01]

@Ruv3c Thanks for letting me know! Hopefully this will be fixed soon. At the moment, Apple doesn't let met sign a new release. I'll let you know once an update is available to update the expire date.

[Philo Hermans @Philo01]

@hohomelodic @Shopify @ShopifyDevs Still crazy how Shopify removes legit reviews and this crap gets through.

[Philo Hermans @Philo01]

Had the same experience. I took about a two-week “break,” mostly doing support work, and stopped everything else I was working on. The context switching was killing me, on top of trying to keep up with all the AI developments. There was also this constant anxiety about whether the AI agents were actually doing anything productive. It all resulted in bad sleep, random dizziness, stress; my brain was fried.

The break, along with focusing on a limited number of projects, helped me feel sane again 😄

https://t.co/3QJxvimqsj

[Philo Hermans @Philo01]

@malisauskasLT Sign me up 🖐️

[Philo Hermans @Philo01]

@soulchildpls It’s a pain 😅 I’m hoping they will add a transition period where both tokens work, I’m a bit nervous that it will break things. https://t.co/RE2NiEylhh

[Philo Hermans @Philo01]

@malisauskasLT 😂