Thom Zolghadr
“A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.”
Violinist, mixologist, and jazz & video game music enthusiast. Passionate about problem-solving and personal growth.
My journey is a blend of music and technology.
Articles by Thom Zolghadr
- How to Make Asynchronous Fulfillment Failures Actionable
How to Make Asynchronous Fulfillment Failures Actionable
Published 10/12/2026Reliable fulfillment middleware separates intentional skips from actionable errors, then distinguishes mapping problems before submission from reconciliation problems after synchronization.
SoftwareE-CommerceSymfonyShopify - Making Shopify AI Catalog Chat Safer Without Losing Merchant Visibility
Making Shopify AI Catalog Chat Safer Without Losing Merchant Visibility
Published 9/14/2026Public AI shopping assistants need protection from automated abuse, but blunt security controls can hide useful operational signals. This architecture combines server-side risk verification, configurable tenant controls, and per-turn reporting for safer Shopify catalog chat.
E-CommerceAIReactShopify - How to Protect a Public AI Chat Interface Without Slowing Down Legitimate Shoppers
How to Protect a Public AI Chat Interface Without Slowing Down Legitimate Shoppers
Published 9/7/2026Public AI chat can be a powerful shopping tool, and an expensive target for automated abuse. This walkthrough shows how a layered security model blocks bad traffic early, applies tenant-specific risk scoring, and gives merchants the visibility needed to tune protection without adding friction for real shoppers.
SoftwareAI - NestJS Winston Logger: How to Save Logs to a Database
NestJS Winston Logger: How to Save Logs to a Database
Published 9/5/2026Persist NestJS logs to a database with Winston: complete code for the custom transport, TypeORM Log entity, and Logger module, working walkthrough from Endertech engineers.
SoftwareNestJS - How to Prepare Your Product Catalog for AI Shopping (Without Starting Over)
How to Prepare Your Product Catalog for AI Shopping (Without Starting Over)
Published 5/26/2026Shoppers are asking ChatGPT and similar tools plain questions before they land on your product pages. If your catalog only has thin titles and generic five-star reviews, those models have little to work with. This guide covers four practical fixes; structured attributes, conversational descriptions, detailed FAQs, and story-driven reviews, plus how that overlaps with SEO. Your content should answer the questions customers already ask.
Web DevelopmentE-CommerceMarketingAIShopify - How I Used AI and Python to Validate STORIS and Inntopia Data for Planning, Mapping, and Pattern Finding
How I Used AI and Python to Validate STORIS and Inntopia Data for Planning, Mapping, and Pattern Finding
Published 4/11/2026I do not dump whole exports into a chatbot. I use an LLM to help write tight Python that answers one question at a time, prove it on a small sample, then run it locally larger data sets. That keeps work repeatable, cuts token cost, and keeps sensitive fields off hosted tools while I plan integrations and product mapping.
SoftwareWeb DevelopmentManagementAI - How Shopify Shop Metafield Objects can be Used to Show Information about your Brick and Mortar Stores
How Shopify Shop Metafield Objects can be Used to Show Information about your Brick and Mortar Stores
Published 10/24/2025This guide shows how to centralize store details in Shopify using shop metafields (and metaobjects) and render them across your theme. Set up fields for hours, address, contact, and policies, then use Liquid snippets to keep headers, footers, and templates consistent and easy to maintain.
Web DevelopmentE-Commerce - How to create a Shopify Checkout UI Extension
How to create a Shopify Checkout UI Extension
Published 5/23/2025Web DevelopmentE-Commerce - How to easily add a Medium style Image Zoom to your Website, Store, or Blog
How to easily add a Medium style Image Zoom to your Website, Store, or Blog
Published 10/26/2024Learn how to how to easily add a Medium style Image Zoom to your Website, Store, or Blog that plays nicely with Safari, Chrome, and other browsers!. Follow the steps with clear code and complete it!
Web Development - How to Customize the UpCart Price Format in your Shopify Store
How to Customize the UpCart Price Format in your Shopify Store
Published 2/29/2024How to Customize the UpCart Price Format in your Shopify Store to Remove Decimals and Trailing Digits
E-CommerceShopify - How to use a Seeder Service to Pre-Populate Your Database in NestJs
How to use a Seeder Service to Pre-Populate Your Database in NestJs
Published 9/25/2023Discover how to use Seeder Service to pre-populate your database inside of NestJS. Follow the steps with clear code and complete it!
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