Articles
Writing on ecommerce engineering, AI, and the decisions in between — drawn from client work, not theory.
Post-migration redirect checks on a Shopify store kept dying on Cloudflare 429s — even though the domain wasn't proxied through Cloudflare. The fix: Shopify's Web Bot Auth.
Magento lets you dictate currency, payment methods and tax per website. Shopify Markets derives all three from where the order is going. Replatforming means re-expressing your trading rules in destination terms.
Months of trying to get consistent characters out of Gemini's image model for a hobby storybook project — reference anchoring, vision-model grading, drift repair loops, and eventually a rented GPU and a style LoRA of my own.
Mottled is a mood diary reduced to a single tap: pick one of seven colours a day and watch the year take shape. On friction, colour as vocabulary, and what a heatmap knows about you.
I cook most nights and realised I couldn't answer why for half of what I do at the stove. So I built a freerice-style quiz app to drill culinary knowledge — and the explanations turned out to be the product.