Rich Develops

Building ecommerce & POS apps on Shopify and Commercetools.

Interested in ecommerce, Shopify, AWS Serverless, React, and Indie Hacking.

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Today I'm returning to Bailey Nelson as Engineering Manager which means lots of CommerceTools, Shopify and AWS but just as importantly, no Adobe or Magento

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@BrooksLybrand The amount of time people seem to spend on testing and switching between various models, tools and techniques makes me wonder how much more productive developers really are.

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@dean_walsh1 @jessethanley @AustralianLabor I wish that was all.

If you can't prove the source of the income they can just take it all. https://t.co/DdKDSen1br

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@petehanssens That's a tough one.

It never made sense that you could claim depreciation for something you expected to increase in value.

However... will this result in landlords being less willing to repair properties; increase rents; increase end of lease damages claims?

Time will tell.

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The saas apocalypse is seriously overstated by developers who don't value their time.

Business owners struggling to find time for accounting, marketing, hiring and growing their business aren't going to waste it vibe coding an app to "save a few dollars".

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It's possible I've been spending too much time on @subwaysurfers

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@adamdotdev Most episodes I've seen usually go something like "after 3 hours of cleaning we've only been able to throw away 10 items because the owner keeps pulling them out of the skip bin"

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@petehanssens I wish I could be positive

[Steve McLeod @steveofmcleod]

As of two days ago, Kill the HiPPO, the book I cowrote is now published!

Kill the HiPPO explores how bootstrapped software companies decide what feature to build next.

It's based on interviews with founders from 10 stable, mature, profitable, well-run bootstrapped software companies.

Alert: We offer neither answers nor frameworks!

Instead, we tell the stories of how the founders have encountered headaches with overbuilding, got mired in tech debt, and found themselves in overly long development cycles - and how they went about solving those problems.

More info at https://t.co/udoQREsBWx - or search for "Kill the HiPPO" on Amazon.

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If it's like this now imagine when everyone is using AI coding

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The Shopify app store:

17,704 apps
11,314 partners
161 categories

🤯

[Rich Develops @richdevelops]

The Shopify app store:

17,704 apps
11,314 partners
161 categories

🤯

[a16z @a16z]

Jesse Genet on Agentic Parenting

Jesse Genet joins a16z's Sarah Wang and Katherine Boyle to discuss her journey from founder to parent, how she's using agents in her household, and how AI could transform parenting for the better.

00:00 YC founder turned homeschool mom
03:00 Discovering Claude Code and agentic building
06:00 Building while homeschooling 4 kids under 5
11:00 How AI generates personalized lesson plans and logs progress
18:00 Jesse's 11-agents
27:05 Agent tech stack deep dive
33:56 How agents improve daily life
40:04 Letting kids interact with AI: values, risks, and the future of parenting

@jessegenet @KTmBoyle @sarahdingwang

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@BrooksLybrand Product focused developers will be fine.

Those who write code until something then works are screwed.

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@edjgeek Directionally I think it's correct. I really want to see serverless as a deployment model rather than serverless as an architecture these days.

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@mjackson All AI companies assumed they owned the future but third party harnesses and tools have turned them into utilities with zero switching cost.

It's a fundamental flaw in their business model that they need to resolve.

Fighting OpenClaw, etc is the only option they have for now.

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@AvidCommentator @FunkFiat ONP won't be able to form government until they can convince Liberal voters to put them ahead of the ALP.

Without that they can't convert 1st or 2nd in the primary vote into a 2PP win.

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@SathyaBhat 180 day countdown started

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@kinngh For a short period I thought that might have been what the React Router team was planning until they started announcing details of Remix 3

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@ryanflorence I think we all know how Artemis II ends

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@petehanssens Things that shocked me about this video:

1. He didn't blame the far right

🤣

It reminds me of a joke from COVID times.

What's the difference between a far right conspiracy (running out of fuel) and the truth? About 6 months (or maybe weeks now).