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Weekly Newsletter Friday 30th Jan 2026 - The Message That Starts With “Sorry to Bother You”

A familiar message that always starts politely and ends with an interruption. A light look at why “sorry to bother you” usually makes things worse, and how clearer messages save everyone time.

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Why we added an llms.txt to DevPartners: Building for the Agentic Web

At Dev Partners Ltd, we've always focused on building software that is clean, performant, and easy for humans to use. But the way the web is navigated is changing. Increasingly, your first interaction with our brand might not be through a browser, but through an AI agent or an LLM like ChatGPT or Claude. Read more
Why we added an llms.txt to DevPartners: Building for the Agentic Web

Weekly Newsletter Friday 23rd Jan 2026 - The Hidden Cost of Free Tools

Free tools can be brilliant, until the real cost shows up later as wasted time, awkward workarounds, and limits you did not know existed.

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Modernizing Shopify Variants: Using productVariantsBulkUpdate

Shopify has recently done one of it's trademark non backward-compatible deprecations. It's literally caused quite a few of our integrations to have a few hiccups!. productVariantUpdate ..... kaput!

We use this frequently to update/input barcode, SKU, RRP price and sale price... it's a necessary function for our majority fashion-related clients.

The update now needs to use productVariantsBulkUpdate instead... but this needs a few changes to the input payload.

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Modernizing Shopify Variants: Using productVariantsBulkUpdate

The Top Shopify Mistakes We See in Kent Stores (And How to Fix Them)

We see the same Shopify mistakes again and again in Kent stores. Learn the quick, practical fixes that improve speed, conversions, and customer trust.

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The Top Shopify Mistakes We See in Kent Stores (And How to Fix Them)

Weekly Newsletter Friday 16th Jan 2026 - The Cost of Half-Decisions

Half-decisions feel flexible, but they are usually the reason projects stall. When nobody signs off clearly, work drifts into limbo and time disappears into endless revisits and second guessing.

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The Kent Business Advantage: How Local Agencies Deliver Faster and Better

Working with a Kent-based agency means clearer communication, faster turnarounds, and fewer surprises. Local teams deliver results more efficiently.

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The Kent Business Advantage: How Local Agencies Deliver Faster and Better

Weekly Newsletter Friday 19th Dec 2025 - The Great API Translation Game

APIs are meant to be a calm, structured conversation between systems. In reality, it is often two slightly drunk people trying to communicate at a noisy party, which is why integrations fail in such creative ways.

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Why Kent Is Becoming a Hotspot for Shopify Brands

Kent is fast becoming a hotspot for Shopify brands. From food producers to fashion labels, local businesses are using Shopify to scale quickly and compete nationally.

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Why Kent Is Becoming a Hotspot for Shopify Brands

Weekly Newsletter Friday 12th Dec 2025 - Why Your Code Breaks Only When Someone Is Watching

A light-hearted look at the universal law of software demos: code works perfectly right up until someone is watching, then environments, configs, and caches decide to join the chaos.

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