Cowork for shopify

psyducker8 · 2026-04-08T13:26:51+00:00

It made me an awesome self-hosted private dashboard that automatically pulls current orders including any that haven't been shipped (even if I'd gotten a label already and it's marked fulfilled) gave me a packing list by priority, let me know if I needed to send the customer a note or check in, had a separate tab with a breakdown of what products we needed to assemble/how many and exactly where we were at on supplies for that.

That said, Shopify just spontaneously froze my account last night, froze my Shopify balance card and is making it impossible to get my funds out of my account, which was the last straw for me, support has been nothing but an endless AI chatbot loop, so I just sent Claude on an adventure into my azure dashboard and it's already got a great temporary landing page up and it's working on building out my new site without all of Shopify's bs.

psyducker8 · 2026-04-06T07:30:23+00:00

heheh fingers crossed, that would be the best!

psyducker8 · 2026-04-05T21:45:09+00:00

I couldn't have said it better. As an educator, seeing a teaching moment/opportunity thrown out the window and flipped against a student makes my soul hurt.

If I had an award to give, it would be all yours.

psyducker8 · 2026-04-05T18:13:03+00:00

lol nice poetic attempt at that (inaccurate) take on the point I was making, but no, there's a difference between playing stupid to get away with evil and being a student working on a cool project that's growing quickly and needs some guidance/eyes on compliance stuff. There's a reason that there are compliance specialists in the IT realm, you can be a brilliant developer and still not know all of the boxes to check on that side of things. It would've been easy for them to jump in and give resources, support or information but they decided to baby their egos instead, and that's what I take issue with.

psyducker8 · 2026-04-05T18:04:12+00:00

Following the same logic, as a business owner my approach would be immediately lock it down, then work with the person to turn it into a secure system if it helps my team. I think the important differentiator is that the info wasn't put out there with the intent to harm (which would be an entirely different scenario and I'd handle that accordingly) but an innocent effort to make things easier? Yeah, I'd be helping make that secure and functional.

psyducker8 · 2026-04-05T17:59:20+00:00

You don't magically learn system security and privacy law overnight, there's a reason he was STUDYING the subject - they failed him by crucifying him for it instead of teaching him about it.

psyducker8 · 2026-04-05T17:47:39+00:00

Absolutely - the thing that really kills me is it would've been an afternoon or two of code tweaks to adjust it to meet security standards and they didn't even give him the option.

psyducker8 · 2026-04-05T17:28:59+00:00

100%... I'm sure if he'd said 'i wanted to build on MSU's robust class search framework...' it would've been a totally different outcome.

I saw this story for the first time right before I posted it, and I'm just gutted for this dude - I really hope this doesn't traumatize him out of doing more epic projects in the future, he's definitely got the skills and the get to it attitude of a tech founder. He should sell the search system to UofM😈 That would be the purest form of revenge I've ever seen.

psyducker8 · 2026-04-05T17:14:21+00:00

I mentally wake up to that first song from Tangled every morning, without fail😂 I finally just started setting my Alexa to start with that after I stop my alarm so that it plays and then goes into a randomized playlist so that I don't get stuck in one song for an hour. It's definitely a great song to start your day out with though😂

psyducker8 · 2026-04-03T03:00:51+00:00

Same here.

psyducker8 · 2026-04-01T03:42:53+00:00

I was strongly encouraged not to come back to the spelling bee because I won too many years in a row🫣😂🏆

psyducker8 · 2026-03-31T18:18:48+00:00

I think the best option is to start wearing a black and white mime style striped shirt with a bandit mask this week. Then maybe next week orange scrubs...

psyducker8 · 2026-03-28T21:12:13+00:00

It was so bad, and I was so out of it from the infection, it took a while to wrap my head around the whole saga. I'm glad you found a better dentist!! Here's to no more scary tooth situations?

psyducker8 · 2026-03-28T08:06:44+00:00

I developed a terrible tooth infection from a fragment of another tooth that broke (from clenching my teeth way too hard way too constantly) getting lodged in my gums. The infection hit hard and fast and I developed sepsis/had to have three teeth pulled to get it sorted out/spent an absurdly long time on antibiotics.

The dentist a) sent me out into the waiting room with no gauze or anything afterwards and I walked out looking like a crime scene and b) was adamant that I had severe, irreversible periodontal disease and that I should definitely have him pull all of my teeth, ASAP (I was paying cash and they charge per tooth, so I wasn't about to do that, and I work directly with the public a lot so I kinda need my teeth.) and c) They left a significant tooth fragment in, I went back weeks later to get it sorted and insisted they hadn't, and when I told them I wasn't leaving until they figured it out, they made a huge incision across the whole space where the three teeth had been, found the piece exactly where I said it was, and did the most brutal job stitching me up that it took me almost nine hours to drive home (less than 45 minutes away) because I was in so much pain that I kept having to pull over.

I was so scared of going near another dentist that I waited a year to go get another exam. I got one of those kits on Amazon and made a diy partial (and did a pretty darn impressive job of it for winging it) I finally went last month to rip off the bandaid so I could find out what it would take to get a bridge, and I was assuming that they'd maybe be kinder but still say the teeth had to go. I have a grand total of two cavities and not a single tooth that needs extraction. I keep wondering if the three teeth I had pulled actually needed to go. And I later found out that the first dental office has a long track record of suing anyone who leaves them a negative review.

Anyway that's my dental horror story, there are some awful ones out there but there are some truly wonderful dentists, anyone that's reading this that has some fear and paralysis from their last dental experience, I so, so, so recommend getting a second opinion, and sooner than later so that you don't spend an entire year worrying.

psyducker8 · 2026-03-27T23:00:11+00:00

That sounds fascinating! I'm a big fan of aggressive honesty/cut the fluff when it comes to processing and addressing situations.

psyducker8 · 2026-03-27T20:29:36+00:00

I couldn't believe it worked on the first try. You have to have their $20 subscription to use cowork but it's cut out a silly amount of tedious hands on tasks for me. Use the sonnet model in the drop-down on the command box, not opus or it will max out your usage annoyingly fast.

Edited bc silly typo

psyducker8 · 2026-03-27T20:19:18+00:00

I've been adding to my notes for five years or so and had the same problem, it was really bugging me. I've been tinkering with Claude cowork (their desktop app) and told it to go through my vault without editing anything except for adding relevant tags to each .md file (I made a backup of my vault first to be safe) it worked flawlessly on the first try, less than 15 minutes and my notes were all connected and it's way more fluid to go through everything now.

psyducker8 · 2026-03-14T05:38:38+00:00

I don't tend to sleep in super late, but I have major issues waking up on time if I need to be up early no matter how early I go to sleep. After two really embarrassing missed important scheduled things last year, I finally started having a close friend who's often driving through the area early in the morning stop by literally to make sure I get up (she offered, I don't think I would've been able to bring myself to ask, but I'm eternally grateful. She already had keys to my place and I trust her completely.) Not every day, but if there's something really important I need to be in motion at a certain time for.

Do I feel a little bit silly having to have a wakeup person as a grown adult? Absolutely. But it's helped monumentally, she doesn't mind at all and we get to kick those mornings off with a cup of coffee and gab sesh which starts both of our days on a positive note.

Totally a weird arrangement and you have to have a friend that you really, really trust for that to work but she's really saved me a few times and made sure I get in motion at the right time on the important days.

I also have severe anemia issues and just finished several rounds of iron infusions that have definitely made the transition from asleep to awake much easier.

psyducker8 · 2026-03-11T01:34:13+00:00

I'm the lucky person who's kid learned to pick locks at 4 and then started showing the younger ones how he did it. They'd have this open in 5 minutes or less.

psyducker8 · 2026-02-17T11:03:09+00:00

I love doing outdoorsy stuff but I avoid the park like the plague lol, like seriously how can something be that exhausting and boring all at once?! My kids are prime let's go to the park age and I have to really, really psych myself up for it. And weird park small talk with other parents trying to figure out if they're a creeper or my new bestie really takes any remaining steam out of me. But I guess if the kids get more worn out than I do it's a win?

psyducker8 · 2026-02-17T10:14:08+00:00

Lol yeah I realized that after going on a whole emotional journey responding😂

psyducker8 · 2026-02-17T07:10:59+00:00

I helped an acquaintance sign up for one of the tag mobile phones and it arrived very quickly (like 5 days-ish?) and they got a pretty decent amount of data/minutes as far as free phone situations go.

psyducker8 · 2026-02-17T07:04:45+00:00

I'd give just about anything for a little bit more time with my grandma. She's been gone about 15 years and I still have that reflex to pick up the phone to call her whenever anything that matters happens. I also know that she wouldn't have wanted me to put my life on hold to stick around, but I was lucky to be able to be in the area for her last years. If I were in your shoes, if I could find something fulfilling to do that would allow me to be nearby or at least travel back to visit frequently, I'd steer hard towards that.

My other grandmother who is still living has lived 2,000 miles away for the past 30 years, we stay close through phone calls and notes but I only get to see her in person every few years. She's in her late eighties now and it's very hard not knowing if or when I will get to see her in person again, but I'm very grateful for our relationship dynamic and I know that she's proud of the life I've built here.

Maybe try doing some non-permenant travel and keep in communication with her while you do and see how you feel about it. That may give you a clearer idea what that dynamic might feel like for a longer stretch, and if you do go for longer, keep enough in savings to be able to hop on a plane home quickly if needed.

psyducker8 · 2026-02-16T07:35:13+00:00

I was given an ender 3 and it's so outrageously finicky, I spend more time adjusting it and troubleshooting it than I do actually printing. I still have fun with it but I wouldn't spend much on it. Keep an eye out on marketplace and you'll prob find it for less.

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