Jonny Paylor

By day: Head of Development for 5 seven‑figure DTC Shopify Plus stores... by evenings & weekends: building my first public Shopify app for merchants.

[Jonny Paylor @jpaylor]

@celispj @judgeme Impressive! How are you making that read / where is the data sourced from exactly?

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The worst part of this latest Shopify outage is some customers are intermittently seeing error pages saying "This store does not exist."

Scary for us, and scary for customers!

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Wow, seems like a major Shopify outage again. Checkout down, admin down. 😱

We were literally about to click go on an import of thousands of customers into a store we're migrating to Shopify - the timing is crazy!

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And tbf, while Shopify UI has dated pretty well, it does feel like its maybe in need of a new lick of paint and a bit of modernisation. SaaS UI trends have shifted a bit since AI got involved!

Plus, those new design team hires at Shopify must be doing something between Editions!

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Interesting! One of our Shopify stores has a completely different dashboard today.

Shopify might be rolling out (or experimenting with) a new UI style?

Cards are more graphical and rounded with larger text, lighter backgrounds, stronger drop-shadow & subtle animated hover

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Typical, just as I've spent loads of time painstakingly replicating Shopify's existing UI style for my (as yet unreleased) app!

Ah well, that's the game I guess! Who knows, maybe we'll even get the much desired dark mode with this 👀

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@dave_cameron @ShopifyDevs This is cool, for basic custom apps like discount functions etc.

I just hope there aren’t any future plans to move in a direction where app front-ends *have to be* Shopify hosted (and use Polaris) in order to get BFS or something 🤞

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@ShopifySupport Thanks, all good now

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500 error when editing products on Shopify right now 😫

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@getrecharge https://t.co/ZnUI3rrYDf

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If your API has a leaky bucket rate limit, presumably that's there to prevent apps placing too much load at once.

Why then advise developers to just circumvent that limit by distributing their requests across multiple tokens?

Seems very odd to me @getrecharge

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@austriker27 @RainierWatchApp Love the tune

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Really disappointed in @AnthropicAI and their latest change to a credits system for Claude SDK usage.

I've been using their Claude Code Github action to run automated PR reviews. Running that via their API credits is simply unviable, its too expensive.

[Jonny Paylor @jpaylor]

@theo You missed the Claude Code Github action (https://t.co/m1NNDuslZ4).

Their own setup instructions for this still say you can use a "CLAUDE_CODE_OAUTH_TOKEN" and instructs "Pro and Max users" how to generate one, so its not as if we were abusing the subscriptions doing so 🤷‍♂️

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Suddenly seeing the 'Agentic' sales channel appear in our UK Shopify stores today 👀

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@TakoTreba @Airbnb Yeah something similar happened to me a few years ago and I’ve never used @Airbnb since. Totally unreliable and they don’t know what customer service is. It’s not worth the risk.

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@austriker27 🙋‍♂️ Yeah, I rent a dedicated server from Hetzner server auction (powerful & cheap), then stuck Claude Code on it. I asked Claude to write me a CLI script to help me manage and start/stop/resume sessions on it over SSH. I do all my builds remotely since doing this.

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@eastdakota @Cloudflare This is a real bad look. You’ve damaged your reputation in my eyes.