Episode 047 - Theme Blocks, AI Tools, and Barcelona Adventures

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Liquid Weekly Podcast: Shopify Developers Talking Shopify Development

Karl Meisterheim

57 episodes

2 weeks ago

Each episode hosts Karl and Taylor discuss the latest news and techniques for Shopify development. Hear about current projects, listen to interviews with developers and take your theme and app development skills to another level.

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Episode 047 - Theme Blocks, AI Tools, and Barcelona Adventures

Liquid Weekly Podcast: Shopify Developers Talking Shopify Development

1 hour 1 minute 28 seconds

3 months ago

Episode 047 - Theme Blocks, AI Tools, and Barcelona Adventures

In this episode of Liquid Weekly, Karl and Taylor reconnect after Taylor's anniversary trip to Barcelona, diving into their latest Shopify development work including theme blocks, app development challenges, and the evolving AI tooling landscape.

Episode Highlights:

Taylor's experience transitioning from sections/blocks to theme blocks and the mental shift required
Karl's EtherCycle app development progress and webhook filtering solutions
Discussion of AI coding tools: Claude Code, Cursor, Kiro, and GPT-5 comparisons
Taylor's Barcelona travel stories and balancing client work while on vacation
The challenges merchants face adapting to theme blocks in themes like Horizon
Karl's clever solution for filtering Shopify webhooks per shop to reduce infrastructure overhead
Four-year anniversary milestone for the Liquid Weekly newsletter

Timestamps:00:00 - Introduction and Barcelona recap15:30 - Theme blocks learning curve and documentation28:45 - AI coding tools comparison and workflow35:20 - App development updates and webhook solutions45:10 - Travel work-life balance and client management52:30 - Shopify Dev Changelog57:00 - Picks of the Week

Resources:

Horizon theme (now open source) - https://github.com/Shopify/horizon
Jan's Horizon customization video - https://www.shopifyacademy.com/video-learn-theme-customization-with-theme-blocks/2303629
Shopify customize webhook filters - https://shopify.dev/docs/apps/build/webhooks/customize/filters
Raycast - https://raycast.com/?via=taylor
Warp terminal - https://app.warp.dev/referral/2WY6RV
Kiro AI coding tool - https://kiro.dev/
Claude Code - https://www.anthropic.com/claude-code
Cursor CLI - https://cursor.com/en/cli

Dev Changelog:

Request app reviews in admin with the new Reviews API - https://shopify.dev/changelog/request-app-reviews-in-admin-with-the-new-reviews-api
New: Support for nested cart lines - https://shopify.dev/changelog/new-support-for-nested-cart-lines
[action required] _tracking_consent, _landing_page, _orig_referrer cookies will no longer be set - https://shopify.dev/changelog/trackingconsent-landingpage-origreferrer-cookies-will-no-longer-be-set
[action required] _shopify_y and _shopify_s cookies will no longer be set - https://shopify.dev/changelog/shopifyy-and-shopifys-cookies-will-no-longer-be-set
[action required] Deprecation of the checkout_and_accounts_configurations/update webhook - https://shopify.dev/changelog/deprecation-of-checkoutandaccountsconfigurationsupdate-webhook

Picks of the Week:Karl: Taylor (awwwww)Taylor: Kindle Paperwhite - https://amzn.to/3UL74CB

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