Essential Soft Skills for Software EngineersAs a technical person, it’s always been easy for me to focus on hard skills, numbers, and statistics. This worked well through school, personal projects and smaller teams; environments where I could accomplish a ton on my own. But now I’m working in ...Sep 28, 2025 · 4 min readblog.davidwilliford.dev
Embed Yotpo Reviews Widgets in Headless StoresI recently wrote an article detailing how to embed Yotpo’s loyalty widgets on a headless site. As I was writing it, I thought “there is no way that the reviews widget will be this troublesome”. I was wrong, it was just as troublesome. For 2 primary r...Jan 29, 2025 · 3 min readblog.davidwilliford.dev
Embed Yotpo Loyalty Widgets in Headless StoresCurrently, I am working on turning a Liquid-based Shopify store into a headless Hydrogen-based store. Part of this was transferring Yotpo embedded forms to the new headless site. As for the loyalty and referrals portion of Yotpo, you can embed these ...1AJan 27, 2025 · 5 min readblog.davidwilliford.dev
How to Send Customers to an Authenticated Checkout in ShopifyWithin Shopify, store owners are restricted from having full control of their store’s checkout page. This is a safety feature on Shopify’s end, protectecting store owners and customers from accidentally (or purposely) exposing private information. Th...Jan 14, 2025 · 4 min readblog.davidwilliford.dev
How to Implement HSTS into your Hydrogen ProjectHSTS is HTTPS Strict-Transport-Security. It enforces that only HTTPS is used across your web application, preventing unencrypted traffic being monitored and collected by unwanted entities. HSTS in Hydrogen It can be enabled in your Hydrogen app via r...Dec 26, 2024 · 1 min readblog.davidwilliford.dev