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If Your Software Supplier Went Bust, What Would You Do?
A GP website supplier's collapse has left practices hunting for replacements. Five things any small firm can check now about the suppliers it relies on.
Shopify Changed Who Counts as a Customer With an Account
A customer's first Shopify sign-in now sets them to ENABLED and fires webhooks. What changed, who it affects and what to check in custom apps and themes.
What Does AI Tell Shoppers About Your Shopify Store?
If you sell on Shopify, there's a page in your admin worth ten minutes of your time before Black Friday. It's the Knowledge base, and it holds the...
Your Custom Shopify App Can Now Report Into Analytics
If you run a Shopify store with a custom app or integration bolted on, here's a small change from this week that could save you a fair bit of squinting...
Shopify Can Now Lock Your App's Token to Your Servers
Shopify slipped a genuinely useful security feature out yesterday, and it's easy to miss in a changelog full of dashboard tidy-ups. If your app talks...
AI Models Got Cheaper. Your App Might Not Have Noticed
The big AI models have got a lot cheaper since the summer. Sadly, if your business has an app with AI built into it, that doesn't mean your bill has...
Should You Build Your MVP With AI? An Honest Answer.
No hype and no fear-mongering. Yes for prototypes and internal tools with a handful of users. Be careful the moment it holds sensitive data or has to...
Shopify Polaris 2.0 Is Out. Your Custom App Won't Move
If you've got a custom app sitting inside your Shopify admin, there's a change this week worth knowing about. On 22 October Shopify moved Polaris 2.0...
Shopify App Tokens Are Going to Expire. Is Yours Ready?
Shopify published a post yesterday asking every app developer to work on security this week. Not this quarter. This week. It's marked "action...
When a Security Fix Needs Its Own Fix
For years the deal with security updates has been simple. A bug is found, a fix comes out, you install it, job done. New research published yesterday...
AI Makes Good Developers Faster. It Doesn’t Make Thinking Optional.
A short one. AI is a genuine accelerator for people who know what they are doing, and a trap for anyone hoping it will replace the knowing. Those two...
AI Shopping Agents Can Now Ask for Marketing Consent
Here's a small Shopify change that tells you a lot about where online shopping is heading. Since 16 October, AI shopping agents that build carts and...
One in Three Teams Switched AI Provider Last Month
Almost a third of the busier development teams using Vercel's AI Gateway changed their main AI provider in September. Not their prompts, not their...
AI Code Review Found More Bugs Than Postgres Could Fix
PostgreSQL 19 is running late, and part of the reason is that AI-assisted code review found more problems than the developers had time to fix. If...
Shopify's New App Security Check, and What It Won't Catch
If you have a custom Shopify app, whether it's a public one or a private tool built just for your store, Shopify has just given you a free security...
AI Wrote It. Does Anyone Understand It?
The people who look after the Linux kernel have just scrapped their rule that developers must declare when they've used AI. If you're paying for...
How to Choose a Bespoke Software Developer in 2026
Choosing a bespoke software developer comes down to a handful of plain questions. Who writes the code, who owns it, who holds the keys, how do they use...
Legacy Software in the UK: Keep It, Fix It or Replace It?
If your business runs on software that's older than some of your staff, you're not alone, and you don't have to rip it all out next month. But you do...
Shopify Hydrogen Is Now a Library. What That Means for You
Shopify released Hydrogen 2026-10 on 14 October, and it's a bigger change than the version number suggests. Hydrogen used to be a whole framework you...
Shopify inventorySetQuantities: A Practical Guide (2026)
If your ERP, WMS or spreadsheet is the source of truth for stock, inventorySetQuantities is the Shopify mutation you want. It sets an absolute number...
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