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This was a delightful natter with @pbattisson.bsky.social. Not that it’s surprising, Paul is someone I always find things to discuss with. Have a listen: I go on way too long about the early Trailhead days. I was a bit part player, but I got to witness a lot of that part of Salesforce history.

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If you like this one you should also consider trying Brewdog’s Mr President and Beavertown’s Lupuloid. Pretty certain King Slayer beats them both on ABV but they still have that nice sharp high alcohol ping to them.

Watching this. Barely two weeks. And the hardcore right are already in the finding out stage of FAFO.

Peter Chittum @pchittum.com · 28/01/2025

I’ve developed a taste for high alcohol content beers. 🍺 This one is lovely. #beer

Open can of Buxton Brewery King Slayer double IPA beer showing 8% alcohol content. The graphic on the can appears to be a closeup of the eye of a dragon reflecting a fiery scene.

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The source is a Daily Mail writer siting a Channel 4 survey. So worth digging deeper, but on the face of it those are stark findings. I guess the original research isn't released until a future event. I get that polls should be treated as point-in-time data. But what a point in time. 😬

Peter Chittum @pchittum.com · 28/01/2025

Also 45% of Gen Z males think that we have gone as far in promoting women's equality that we're now discriminating against men. And that "when it comes to giving women equal rights, things have gone far enough". So...I guess that's it, ladies. That's "equal enough" for you. Disturbing stuff.

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Peter Chittum @pchittum.com · 28/01/2025

I confess, this result has me a bit boggled and unsure how to unpack this. For Gen Z: - 52% want a leader that rules without parliament or elections - 33% military rule would make Britain better off - 47% want radical change through revolution www.msn.com/en-au/news/a...

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Peter Chittum @pchittum.com · 22/01/2025

Still love attending a meetup with these lovely folks. @londevsfdc.bsky.social Great evening.

Title slide with Keir and Todd kicking off the developer group meeting.

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So I appreciate the tip. But Chrome is key to my work flow at the moment.

I also use Chrome tab groups heavily to keep current work projects organized.

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For work I use Chrome and have different accounts logged into different Chrome profiles (using color coding to tell them apart). I have four different work Google Workspace accounts: for my own company, two clients and one agency I work with.

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Peter Chittum @pchittum.com · 17/01/2025

I use Firefox for my personal account login. I would love to kick Chrome to the curb permanently but my work productivity and my use of Google workspace just make it impossible.

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How do I make this stop popping up every. Single. M eeting. I am so annoyed by this thing and there is no setting to just make it stop. And even more frustrating the "X" icon doesn't even work when you click on it. So. Very. Annoyed.

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Peter Chittum @pchittum.com · 16/01/2025

I moved away from LA when I was 18. I've not lived there for over 30 years, but it will always be home. The wild fires have decimated places that were integral to my growing up. If you can spare any amount, please consider donating to the Red Cross to assist! www.redcross.org/about-us/new...

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Red Cross providing critical relief services as thousands face unimaginable loss in southern California

Hundreds of American Red Crossers are helping as Californians cope with the massive destruction from the wildfires.

Peter Chittum @pchittum.com · 16/01/2025

Pandas are an unfathomably endearing curiosity of nature.

Peter Chittum @pchittum.com · 15/01/2025

Few things put a smile on my face like @monkigras.com. I'm signed up and ready to go for what looks like another amazing conference. Can't wait! If you work in tech and want to be challenged in how you see the industry, your work, and technology, you should come, too. ti.to/monki-gras/m...

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Monki Gras 2025: Sustaining Software Development Craft

Monki Gras, the tech conference about software, craft, and tech Culture, returns March 27th and 28th 2025. The theme this year is Sustaining Craft: ensuring we can keep doing the work we do. We'll hav...

Peter Chittum @pchittum.com · 15/01/2025

Naively I didn’t know this was a thing. But I’m glad to know about it. And I reckon it’s come up because it’s being talked about due to the LA fires. On balance it seems like one of the more fair things about the prison system in CA.

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Peter Chittum @pchittum.com · 12/01/2025

Rainbow at dawn. Dawnbow?

Zoomed out Pink and orange rainbow at dawn

Peter Chittum @pchittum.com · 08/01/2025

I grabbed those out of a gallery of stock Trailhead character images that I had access to. I don't remember if those were public assets or internal Salesforce assets. The look on Astro's face is particularly well suited, I find.

Peter Chittum @pchittum.com · 08/01/2025

I was watching someone use "find" recently realizing I've never properly understood how to make the most of it syntactically.

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It has made me wonder: the Salesforce CLI has completely changed since I did these talks (going back to 2017). Is this something people would be interested in me revisiting? Let me know if you think so (or not...for that matter, I take all comers).

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This was not gratuitous irreverence. It did have a point. I was teaching how the `wc` command works in bash-based shells. I've been compiling a portfolio of work of mine in the public. After nearly 15 years...it turns out it's quite a bit.

True story, I once worked in Astro, Cloudy and Codey queueing for an outhouse into a presentation at TDX.

The Trailhead characters Astro, Cloudy and Codey standing in a line for an outhouse on a backrdop of an african savana.

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6 Salesforce Spring ‘25 Updates for Developers

I took a read through the Spring 24 #Salesforce release notes for Salesforce Ben and shared my thoughts on upcoming developer features. Have a read and share, pls! www.salesforceben.com/6-salesforce...

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Take a look at the latest updates and discover exciting new features designed to enhance your development experience.

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Peter Chittum @pchittum.com · 25/12/2024

Christmas 🎄 morning 🌅 ride.

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Peter Chittum @pchittum.com · 25/12/2024

Super cool. I love a colorful fungus.

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Peter Chittum @pchittum.com · 24/12/2024

#whamageddon Last night. 😢 #protip if you want to persevere to tomorrow, don’t watch Carry-on. (It’s just a wannabe Die Hard with a twist, anyway, right down to the holiday-movie-not-holiday movie controversy.)

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Peter Chittum @pchittum.com · 23/12/2024

Blogged: No One Misses Knocker-Uppers I was in a training last week. The discussion of job loss from AI was very sanitized. I think we need to be more frank than that. pchittum.mataroa.blog/no-one-misse...

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Peter Chittum @pchittum.com · 21/12/2024

Blogged: what the winter solstice means to me this year. #WelcomeTheLight pchittum.mataroa.blog/blog/short-d...

Two children on bikes riding away across a field on a sunny day. In the distance you can see the Stonehenge stone circle.

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Peter Chittum @pchittum.com · 21/12/2024

Expertise in Sapefece is highly sought after. Lean into that. 😬

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Oh. Well, it comes up so infrequently for me. That’s kind of the reason I end up in the same situation. And then when it happens I just can’t be arsed to read the docs again. So I accept it’s a me problem. 😂

You mean my failed rebase? Or my nuclear option alternative? The former 😶 The latter is not pretty

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I love the look of those forks. My impression (with limited experience) of fatbike forks is they're usually ugly atrocities. But those look really well designed.

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Peter Chittum @pchittum.com · 19/12/2024

I love the idea of a rebase. It makes total sense. I get how it's supposed to work. But I confess I have about a 10% success rate at rebasing. The other 9 times I end up blasting away my old branch and recreating my changes after creating a fresh branch from main. #DevFail

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Not to change the subject, but for me the best parts are some of the artifacts that are supposed to say “Salesforce”. Salesface Sapefece 😶 😂 😁

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Peter Chittum @pchittum.com · 19/12/2024

I get obsessed by words. "life" I wrote "life". What I meant was "work". I really wish I'd written "work. But it's a lesson, nevertheless. And a caution.

Peter Chittum @pchittum.com · 19/12/2024

My life is all about maximizing content views and getting the most out of everything online act. As a bit of an antidote to that, I feel like writing...for the fucking sake of it. Because I love writing. If you love reading for the sake of it, have a read: pchittum.mataroa.blog/blog/velcro-...

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Velcro, it turns out, was inspired by nature — pchittum

Peter Chittum @pchittum.com · 18/12/2024

Dropping into the middle of a MN winter is shockingly hard. When you live there at least you get time for your body to become acclimated. .

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Peter Chittum @pchittum.com · 11/12/2024

Saving this for later…looks intriguing.

Mark Ross is Writing Trailhead Badges @markrossflownatic.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

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It's the Annual London Salesforce User Groups Mega-Meet! @lonsfadmnslaug.bsky.social @londevsfdc.bsky.social @lonsfwit.bsky.social Time for a punishing pub quiz...

The leaders of the London Salesforce User groups

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Peter Chittum @pchittum.com · 11/12/2024

Expecting good things for these two in the New Year. #DevRel