A few years ago I solved 200 LeetCode problems and still froze on Mediums I hadn't seen. The breakthrough wasn't another hundred problems. It was a different loop. A problem asks for the longest substring with at most K distinct characters. You've solved sliding window before. Maximum sum subarray of size K, done. Longest substring without repeating characters, done. This third one stalls you. Twe
This is part 3 of a series on building MetaBulkify, a Shopify app for bulk editing metaobjects via CSV. Part 1: Excel data corruption and GID/handle resolution Part 2: Shopify platform traps (scopes, throttling, dev store billing) This post is about two things: how I build software as a solo developer with AI, and how I designed pricing to let users try the app properly before committing. I have a
I recently shipped MetaBulkify, a Shopify app for bulk editing metaobjects via CSV. (Part 1 covers the metaobject-specific challenges.) The metaobject stuff was hard, but the Shopify platform stuff was harder. Here are three traps that aren't obvious from the docs. Week 1 of development. Nothing works. metaobjectDefinitions query returns an empty array. No error message. Just... nothing. The probl