00:00 - Intro & Smile.io Sponsorship 01:22 - Programmer or whatever we are 01:52 - Daveās alter-egos and promo quotas 03:15 - Wizard hats and Halloween strategy 05:10 - Token Dave and the AI leaderboard 08:00 - Kalenās Shop Minis experiments 11:40 - Mystery boxes, swipes, and feedback loops 18:00 - Product descriptions and brand voice 24:30 - Checkout testing and PDQ deep dive 27:20 - Claude Code, Codex, and context hoarding 33:10 - Git work trees, DBT, and late-night agent coding 38:30 - Modal debugging and test automation pain 44:00 - Cookie banners, Nacho Libre, and existential dev talk 47:00 - Hiring stories, fashion jobs, and North Carolina dreams 50:40 - Claude reading secrets and the security rabbit hole 51:55 - āFind the Shopify PMā 52:45 - ShopifyQL and analytics tinkering 53:57 - AI-driven emails and the LTV flashback 1:01:00 - Brand voice and prompt tuning 1:07:00 - Testing at scale with AI 1:10:00 - SaaS vendor therapy and A/B test chaos 1:13:00 - Wrapping up: Minis, optimism, and candy plans
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#27 "Hunky Bill Appreciation Day"
[00:00:00] Cold Open & Smile.io Ad Spot[00:01:23] Rocker Glow-Up & Compliments[00:03:24] Viral Tweet & Rails Rants[00:06:24] Spam DM Revenge Plots[00:09:27] Anthropicās Ship-It Culture[00:12:56] Claude Power-User Tips[00:15:48] Parallelizing Dev Workflows[00:21:19] Hallmark-Sora Mashups[00:24:02] Meetups, BBLs & Cringe[00:27:32] Hunky Bill Appreciation Day[00:33:17] Reading Code vs Writing Code[00:40:17] 2,048 Variants Drop[00:46:04] Etsy Beats Shopify to GPT[00:50:22] Weekend Plans & Confidence
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#26 "GCloud Goblin Mode"
00:00 ā Cold open + Smile.io sponsor 01:13 ā Friday vibes + late-night Claude sessions 02:09 ā GCloud + SQL wizardry 03:47 ā The nightmare that is Google Cloudās UI 06:02 ā Teaching Claude to remember stuff (and failing) 08:56 ā Capturing AI context before it disappears 10:19 ā Docker pain, Postgres pain, all the pain 12:32 ā āI donāt read docs, I just ask Claudeā 14:06 ā Visualizing the LLM brain 15:18 ā Sora jailbreaks itself and writes on a chalkboard 17:09 ā The rise of AI social feeds 18:24 ā Meme theory + Lord of the Riz 19:43 ā Tobiās been keylogging himself for 10 years š¤Æ 20:37 ā Linus Torvalds: still committing daily 22:12 ā Kalen admits heās bad at working with people 23:27 ā AI wireframes + prompt-based design 25:58 ā Figma MCP dreams 27:46 ā Flow builders that make you click too much 29:59 ā A 5-year-old AWS site still running somehow 31:17 ā Shoutout to Gil for fixing Shopify checkboxes 32:09 ā Bulk editor blues + the $15 SaaS pitch 36:54 ā Hidden variants + Tobi promises salvation 43:12 ā Builder Sundays envy (do Austin next!) 46:49 ā Meetup ideas + social dread 49:57 ā Onboard B2B app vs rolling your own 57:22 ā Getting warned in the Shopify Slack š 59:03 ā Are we good people? (short therapy break) 1:02:18 ā Pop Mart addiction + blind box economics 1:05:07 ā Medusa vs Shopify + the B2B dream 1:07:26 ā Pickleball + Scout weekend plans
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#25 "Declarative Metafields, Declarative Regrets"
00:00:00 ā Lost in your own repo (zero-to-one brain fog)00:01:24 ā Country vs. metal: whatās actually more emotional?00:03:11 ā Never trust a web app turned desktop app00:05:00 ā Memory cores, ++i crimes, and C code nostalgia00:09:07 ā Luxury blow-up couches & festival life00:10:17 ā Smart glasses hit different: Meta, Oakleys, and the PR spin00:12:27 ā Privacy weird: everyone recording, everyone paranoid00:13:55 ā Cry-bait memory videos and why they always work00:14:58 ā Oakleys as pickleball uniform (my whole personality now)00:15:44 ā Listener shoutout: Peanut Butter Collective00:16:40 ā Villain marketing, underdogs, and community antagonists00:21:22 ā Analytics Monday: checkout funnel wins & bot filtering00:25:32 ā Shopify Knowledge Base app: query logs = secret FAQ gold00:28:20 ā AI follow-up calls (customers donāt even notice)00:31:16 ā Customer support at scale: doomed or fixable?00:36:17 ā Claude as the code filing cabinet00:40:03 ā GPT Pro, Cursor, and codebase indexing confusion00:43:40 ā Shopify forums > support tickets (Liam shoutout)00:44:20 ā Shop Worker news: first npm package & create-shopworker00:46:03 ā GPT-personalized quiz landing pages00:48:15 ā Declarative metafields: greenfield yes, migration nope00:51:22 ā Personal READMEs & ways of working00:55:40 ā Optimizing disagreeableness (and knowing your spectrum)00:57:20 ā Parenting, video games, and six-year-old attention spans01:04:12 ā Bitcoin, conspiracies, and oversharing online01:10:26 ā Healthy relationships, sharing ideas, and not just tweeting01:13:18 ā Wrapping upā¦ and the recording dies
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#24 "Control Alt Dylan"
[00:00:00] X.com? Nah, Itās Still Twitter[00:05:00] Beating Algorithmic Sludge & Viral Trash[00:09:30] Forums, Flows & Community Hustles[00:14:00] Killing the Flow ChecksumāSidekick Dreams[00:21:00] RVShare Days & Birth of Real-ID[00:29:00] Review Anxiety and App-Store Politics[00:34:00] Claude, Multitasking & Git Work-Trees[00:40:00] Building a Mobile Admin from CLI Scripts[00:50:00] AI That Actually Ships Features[01:00:00] Burnout, TRT, and Lifestyle Refactors[01:11:00] BMX Wrecks, Lake Surfing & Sign-Off
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