74HC595 with Nano 33 iot and 8 relay module. Trouble controlling a single relay while state of others remains the same

Beautiful!

Thanks again Paul, now I can start integrating it into the bigger project.

The only hurdle left is (I think) the high-impedance. From what I've read here and here is to add a 10K pullup to the OE pin, and possibly to the outputs. But the relay module uses optocouplers so that shouldn't be the case.

My assumption is the fast glitching high/low the module does when uploading a sketch, and random state the relays end up in after a reset, are fixed with the pullup.