Technical Writing in the AI Age
This isn’t coming out of nowhere: More and more people I deeply respect and have learned a…
What Foreign Merchants Miss in India
India’s Unified Payments Interface is a government-backed peer-to-peer infrastructure launched in 2016. It allows seamless payments between…
Cross-Document View Transitions: Scaling Across Hundreds of Elements
In Part 1, we covered the gotchas that bite you first: the deprecated meta tag that silently…
How GenAI Platforms Produce Answers
Google’s recent AI optimization guidelines apply only to its search portal with AI Overviews and AI Mode, and…
Jetpack Search now understands your WooCommerce catalog
Jetpack Search 7.0 adds product-aware filters to WooCommerce stores. Traditional keyword searches match queries to text, potentially…
Jetpack Search now understands your WooCommerce catalog
Jetpack Search 7.0 adds product-aware filters to WooCommerce stores. Traditional keyword searches match queries to text, potentially…
How Foreign Brands Sell into Africa
Foreign brands rarely rely on a single channel when selling into Africa. They layer marketplaces, retail partnerships,…
Breuninger launches in Denmark, Sweden and Romania
Breuninger is expanding online again after several years. The retailer is launching its online store in three…
Ecommerce without Merchant-Owned Carts
Google announced a comprehensive shopping cart that could soon be available across the search giant’s app ecosystem….
Digital Catalogs Become Adaptive Commerce Tools
Many digital catalogs still prioritize visual design over shopper behavior, limiting their ability to drive conversions. Digital…
In-person payments and Point of Sale are live in 13 new countries
If you sell at markets, pop-ups, or brick-and-mortar stores in one of these countries, you’ve probably been…
Stack Overflow: When We Stop Asking
Let’s play a quick game: I’ll show a graph and try to guess what it’s about. Source: Data…
New Ecommerce Tools: May 20, 2026
This installment of our weekly rundown of new services for merchants includes rollouts for quick commerce, SMS…
Turkish online spending reached 86 billion euros
Last year, the transaction volume in Türkiye has increased more than 52 percent, reaching 4.57 trillion Turkish…
Otto opens to Polish sellers
Otto is preparing to open its marketplace to sellers in Poland. A pilot program will begin next…
Cross-Document View Transitions: The Gotchas Nobody Mentions
I wasted an entire Saturday on this. Not a lazy Saturday either, but one of those rare,…
Google Says AI Optimization Is Just SEO
Google has finally published guidance for AI optimization. Yet “Optimizing your website for generative AI features on…
How to start selling online: Nail the decisions that matter most
Starting an online store means making a handful of early decisions that you’ll live with for a…
M&S buys ASOS warehouse
The British department store Marks and Spencer Group is buying a distribution center from Asos. The deal…
What’s !important #11: 3D Voxel Scenes, Flying Focus, CSS Syntaxes, and More
If 3D voxel scenes (that you can style), flying focus animations, or new CSS syntaxes sound like…
Chord Commerce CEO on Pivoting to Data
When he and I last spoke, in 2021, Bryan Mahoney had co-founded Chord, an ecommerce platform that…
AI is shifting commerce — here’s what 225 leaders told us they’re betting on
We set up a booth at Stripe Sessions 2026 and asked 225 commerce leaders where agentic commerce…
Computing and Displaying Discounted Prices in CSS
CSS math isn’t just about how things look! It can also be used to work out useful…
AI Reshapes Print-on-Demand Ecommerce
Starting a print-on-demand ecommerce business has never been easier — or more difficult. On the one hand,…