9 min
Somebody else's checkout
Next week Shopify stops rendering checkout.liquid on 3 of the checkout steps, and going through one store's customizations turned up 8 pieces of decoration and 1 thing that was the entire business.
Ecommerce
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9 min
Shopify collection limits
A row of six related products came out one card short on about a third of a client's catalog, and the thing eating the missing card was a limit I'd never read about, being spent by a block I hadn't written.
7 min
Cron schedules and cache windows
The merchandiser at a client could tell me how long a price change took to appear on the store, morning and afternoon separately, and nobody on our side could have told you either number.
9 min
Everyone was Susan
A full-page cache took the store's category pages from about 2 seconds to 300 ms and broke four things, and all four turned out to be one piece of the header being rendered in the wrong place.
8 min
How template fallback picks a file
A 10-minute ticket ate most of a day because there were four copies of the template on disk and I kept picking the wrong ones.