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Headless heretic 🔱 Writer. Freelance developer (ecommerce). Sci-fi and whiskey. I talk about headless development, e-commerce and freelancing
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0 days since I last took down production

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Maybe I'm weird, but I've always preferred learning by doing over learning by watching a tutorial video. I don't think I've ever followed a tutorial from start to finish.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Apparently a hot take: If you're already paying an agency a lot of money to do custom development on your theme, you're better off with Hydrogen.

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Invoicing day! 💰

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

Debugging Hydration mismatch errors and having fun Or not

submitted 58 days ago • 1 comment

I've been having too much fun with Hydrogen and Sanity to post in a while

submitted 116 days ago • 0 comments

Figured out a solution to this. In the GROQ query, you can concatenate the string with an empty string, seems to throw stega off so it doesn't get appended. E.g. 'alignment': '' + alignment

submitted 134 days ago • 0 comments

I split my weeks between headless and theme development, and let me tell you, they're polar opposites. One has a great DX and allows for modern dev practices, while the other is extremely error-prone and leads to many headaches. I would quit ecom if I had to work in themes exclusively 1/2

submitted 135 days ago • 1 comment

What is going on here? JavaScript, you're drunk!

submitted 137 days ago • 1 comment

Trying to see how fast I can rebuild a site with Hydrogen using my recipe collection. The site is already headless, so I can reuse a fair bit. But it uses Chakra and Gatsby on the frontend, and I'm all in on Tailwind. Plus the Sanity schema is a mess and the Studio is V2, so an upgrade is in order

submitted 137 days ago • 1 comment

Trying to enable drag and drop for visual editing in Hydrogen with @sanity.io , but not having much luck. I followed the steps here: www.sanity.io/docs/enablin... but I can't seem to enable the drag and drop editing.

submitted 137 days ago • 1 comment

Rebuilding a site with Hydrogen this week, with @sanity.io for content. I've missed this setup so much.

submitted 138 days ago • 0 comments

Headless provides a better experience for everyone. Why is it even an argument? Sure, there's some a lack of housekeeping, but this screenshot highlights the disparity between modern systems and whatever this is

submitted 146 days ago • 0 comments

A few months ago I found a Shopify plugin for Vite and thought it would be awesome. But it just made me realise that the problem with themes is not the tech, it's the DX The plugin doesn't fix any of the underlying issues which makes theme dev such a bad experience

submitted 150 days ago • 0 comments

I've set up CI for themes. But I don't trust it. The way Shopify handles content for themes is so clunky

submitted 150 days ago • 0 comments

Deploying a theme next week. Fun times. Scared to death I'll mess up the content somehow. This DX sucks

submitted 150 days ago • 0 comments

Why would you use a private npm package if you're building for a client? You're only creating problems for everyone, including yourself, down the road.

submitted 151 days ago • 0 comments

What are the benefits and potential drawbacks of embedding the @sanity.io studio on the site? I'm still debating which is the better way to go

submitted 151 days ago • 0 comments

I'm done being silent maxkarlsson.dev/blog/rise-of...

submitted 152 days ago • 0 comments

Another underappreciated bonus of Hydrogen+Oxygen is that you get hosting included. There is no need to sell merchants an additional monthly hosting cost.

submitted 152 days ago • 0 comments

I'm a big advocate for using the frameworks and starters developed by the platforms (Hydrogen for Shopify, Catalyst for BigCommerce, etc) because they provide a standard, at least as a starting point, that can be handed over to other devs. Tear down the walls, make headless more accessible

submitted 152 days ago • 0 comments

Why did Lorna Jane use Next.js instead of Hydrogen? Genuinely curious. I hope it's not because the agency they contacted used their in-house framework with years of tech debt to deliver a brand-new site

submitted 152 days ago • 0 comments

When you build for a client, you're also building for other devs. You don't want to be saddled with an unhappy client that can't go anywhere else because you built a wall around their garden. It will eventually hurt your reputation

submitted 152 days ago • 0 comments