1. screenshot of new photo slider
    New Photo Slider Controls!
  2. screenshot of link preview
    Bonus: Link Previews!

I'm making this a photo post because the photo slider got an upgrade.

Previously it was purely HTML/CSS which is fine. However, I decided to progresively enhance it with some simple JS to add some controls to make scrolling more smooth.

As a bonus I also added Open Graph data to every page. Now when you share links to my blog the link previews work!

Testing Shopify Webhooks Locally With shopify-webhook-faker

If you’ve ever built a Shopify app, you already know that webhooks are at the heart of the platform. Everything from orders and fulfillments to customers and subscriptions fires through them. But actually testing Shopify webhooks during development can be exhausting. You either need a publicly accessible HTTPS endpoint, a tunnel that loves to break at the worst possible moment, or a staging environment just to debug one handler. Triggering real events from the Shopify admin is slow, unreliab...

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