Putting the Shop on Pause

I built a shop for this site before I had anything to sell.

A while back I got ambitious. I set up a headless Shopify storefront, wired up the Storefront API, designed a floating cart and a whole product flow, and wrote about all of it here. It was a good way to learn how that kind of system fits together, and I do not regret building it. But the truth is I never had products to put in it. The aspiration got ahead of reality.

So I am putting the shop on pause. I would rather pause it honestly than keep a storefront that sells nothing and act like it does.

If I sell things later, and I might, it could be woodworking, music, lessons, or digital guides, I will turn it back on then, with real products behind it. The older posts about building the Shopify integration are staying up, because the engineering was real and the lessons hold. They are just notes from a project that was a little ahead of its time for me.

That is the whole update. Less store, more honest.