Odera Joseph

Dad of 3 | Solo founder shipping Shopify apps & tools

[Odera Joseph @oderajoseph]

the most important sentence in actorly, the one that explains why a restore got refused, was 221 characters long

the table cell cut it off at "has no p"

wrapped it today. still in shopify app store review, fingers crossed

[Odera Joseph @oderajoseph]

i think most shopify stores don't need another app. they need to delete the 3 they installed in 2023 and forgot about

[Odera Joseph @oderajoseph]

@ddyods yeah screenshot or it didn't happen lol

[Odera Joseph @oderajoseph]

@ddyods ok the marker file idea is neat

[Odera Joseph @oderajoseph]

@tarang8811 a 3 day app just to learn the review flow is a pretty cheap lesson tbh

[Odera Joseph @oderajoseph]

spent part of today on tacey's thank-you page bundle. our check said 65,721 bytes gzip and shopify's cap is 65,536. turns out shopify measures it closer to 54 KB. trimmed 174 english fallback strings anyway

[Odera Joseph @oderajoseph]

today's dumb bug in a new shopify app i'm building: pick a plan on shopify's plan page, come back, land on welcome again. cloudflare d1 refused a GLOB check with 24 character classes as too complex. local sqlite has no limit, so every test passed

[Odera Joseph @oderajoseph]

@i_Am_Snow_Flake ngl cancel-in-progress alone would've saved a chunk of that. good shout on paths filters too

[Odera Joseph @oderajoseph]

@hssn_rh lol it was my bug not theirs tbh, but yeah the one actor you most wanna see

[Odera Joseph @oderajoseph]

found a dumb one in actorly's change export today. 2,892 rows and every change shopify itself made had a blank "who" column, while the app showed "Shopify · Likely" right there. fixed, 9 tests. still waiting on shopify app store review, fingers crossed

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@RohanBhanotAI 0 reverts

[Odera Joseph @oderajoseph]

counted it: 1633 merged PRs on my shopify app between sep 1 and oct 17, most of them from claude code agents i run in parallel

[Odera Joseph @oderajoseph]

@YassineZaanouni free tier covering 545k events is kinda nuts tbh

[Odera Joseph @oderajoseph]

merged today for tacey (my shopify app): when a shopper swaps to something cheaper, the button reads "confirm change, then get $X back", but only if the store has refund automatically on. otherwise it says the refund may need store approval. 19 tests, 22 languages, one button lol

[Odera Joseph @oderajoseph]

@samwstfall @testoseroni ok rebound for a morning-after brand is a perfect name lol. congrats to you both on the orders

[Odera Joseph @oderajoseph]

@weswinder the staff one also reads the diff before merging, that is most of the difference lol

[Odera Joseph @oderajoseph]

@borrhensaidi does anything in those 2,346 tests launch the notarized build on a clean mac?

[Odera Joseph @oderajoseph]

@asturnerr ngl i blame skipped review more than who typed it. ai or human, unreviewed code leaks