I’ve been working on Shopify Apps full-time since 2021 and I’m the founder of Ablestar. Prior to that I worked as a data scientist at Sequoia Capital and in InfoSec at Mandiant.
I live in Spain 🇪🇸 with my wife and three kids. This blog is mostly about the technical side of things that I find interesting.
Last contentful paint (LCP) is a big pain-point for Shopify app developers seeking the Built for Shopify (BFS) badge. There’s a lot of different factors that can slow you down, it depends on real-world performance, and there’s a delay before you see the metrics. This makes it hard to iterate quickly and it can take a long time to identify and fix issues. One of our apps, the Ablestar Link Manager, is Built for Shopify....