A weird little experiment with Shopify's UCP

A weird little experiment with Shopify's UCP

Decided to kick the tires on Shopify's UCP and built https://weird.shopping

Basically a "fun gift" finder. It takes a natural-language description, uses Sonnet 5 to translate it into a handful of product-search queries, then fans those out against Shopify's Global Catalog over UCP (JSON-RPC search_catalog against the public MCP endpoint) and merges the live cross-merchant results.

Whole thing's a Vite/React SPA on a Cloudflare Worker. The Worker handles the LLM call + UCP fetches server-side.

Folks got some weird stuff in their shops. 🙃

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u/Shpigford — 3 days ago

Mom diagnosed with stage IV, liver mets

Back in April mom (late 60's) went to her local urgent care for what she was convinced was appendicitis. Her numbers implied something was going on, but it didn't match up with appendicitis and they decided to do an abdominal scan just to cover their bases.

The next day she got an automated text message with scan results, which she clicked on, and found out she had stage IV pancreatic cancer that had metastasized to her liver. 🤦‍♂️ An absolutely terrifying way to be given that news.

She's 4 rounds in on chemo and has been in/out of the hospital with a slew of complications, but her tumors have generally stabilized or shrunk for the time being, so that's a blessing.

She's got one more round of chemo then they're going to reassess the plan going forward.

What a terrible disease.

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u/Shpigford — 10 days ago

How to horizontally center on a face?

I've got a "hook" component that I'm trying to attach to the center face of a sketch. But the bottom of the hook should NOT move up/down. Basically just need it to horizontally center.

Have been trying to use Assembly > Joint but any faces/points I select invariably are shifting it up/down or not keeping the protruding face of the hook flush with the face of the sketch.

Don't want to manually position as the hook component likely will change so ideally when the linked component updates, it maintains the horizontal centering + staying bottom aligned.

Not sure what else to try.

u/Shpigford — 28 days ago
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Need a gut check on this repair estimate from Camping World

Travel trailer: Forest River Wildwood FSX 178BHSK (23')

I'm a generally inexperienced RV owner. We've had our camper for a few years and used it a bit but (for better or worse) it's mostly sat in storage.

A while back I was towing it and noticed a burning smell and one of the wheels locked up.

Finally got it towed to Camping World (which is where we'd purchased it) for diagnosis.

They say the brakes have melted off on one side and so they're estimating ~$2000 to replace all of that.

In addition, they've recommended three other items:

  1. Exterior wash + reseal - $800
  2. New tires - $875 (2 tires)
  3. Roof reseal - $1300

In the three years we've owned it, I've never replaced tires or done any resealing on exterior or roof.

I assume I'm getting a little screwed over on price but wondering how screwed and if any of these things are worth me figuring out how to do myself.

u/Shpigford — 30 days ago

Settings to make these climbing holds strong enough for 4 year olds?

I'm making a small climbing wall for our 4-year-olds and found these little climbing holds.

The print profile for it uses 6 walls with 30% gyroid infill.

Think that's sufficient?

These will be indoors. They use a 3/8"-16 socket cap screw with washers to attach them (with wood screws on the sides to prevent rotation).

Wondering if material itself (PLA/PETG/ABS/etc) will make that big of a difference vs just increasing wall count and/or infill.

EDIT: To be clear, kids will be at most about 3 feet off the ground and we've got a 24"-thick crash pad underneath. They get much higher off the ground on the playground where there's basically zero padding.

u/Shpigford — 1 month ago

Carnage

Absolute human error on two printers (I accidentally picked a cool plate). Woke up to this nacho cheese abomination.

u/Shpigford — 1 month ago