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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 16h

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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fishofprey.bsky.social @fishofprey.bsky.social · 1d

Mitch Spano and myself will be presenting the Apex Roadmap: What’s New and What’s Coming session at #DF25.

We will explore upcoming features, like Apex cursors, improvements to testing on the platform, agentic tooling, and solutions for scaling your compute.

reg.salesforce.com/flow/plus/df...

Details on the Apex roadmap session times

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Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · 2d

Sometimes the constraint is Mb/s, sometimes it's WTF/s

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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 2d

lucky dog

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Aidan Harding @aidanharding.bsky.social · 3d

Awesome place!

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Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 3d

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

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Aidan Harding @aidanharding.bsky.social · 3d

I'm not an AI booster, BTW. There are things I wouldn't do (e.g. big bicep files) because I need to understand all of it. But, there are places where I've found it super helpful.

The helpful places are not evenly distributed or necessarily where you would expect them to be until you play with it

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Aidan Harding @aidanharding.bsky.social · 3d

Is this in a chat with Copilot or some agentic thing? They're not good at taking big steps in creating stuff. If you watch the transcript of a coding agent, it steps on a lot of rakes before it gets to something that compiles.

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Aidan Harding @aidanharding.bsky.social · 3d

You actually do! They make lots of mistakes, but you can instruct them with a workflow of change, lint, compile, run tests. Then, most of the time, they get to something useful for you to review

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Aidan Harding @aidanharding.bsky.social · 4d

This is really good. It's important for people to take coding with agentic AI seriously. Not with breathless excitement, nor blinkered skepticism. But as a tool with strengths, weaknesses, and skills in use

Clare Sudbery @claresudbery.bsky.social · 5d

Today I published my second post with practical advice on how to get the most out of agentic AI coding tools. This time I talk about how much you should get the LLM to do for you.

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Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 4d

I saved this from Tumblr just yesterday bc I needed it.

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Aidan Harding @aidanharding.bsky.social · 5d

There's no room for my tail, the bikes are going to have to go

A German Shepherd in the open back of a van, sandwiched between two bikes. She is looking at her big fluffy tail that is sticking slightly out of the back of the van

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Cassetteboy @cassetteboy.bsky.social · 11d

New! Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer.

This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!

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Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · 8d

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

Article reads:
Woman named as Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first

The 63-year-old archbishop-designate is married to Eamonn Mullally, with whom she has two children. Originally from Woking in Surrey, she was the UK's chief nursing officer from 1999 to 2004.

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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 11d

Very good stuff from Sadiq Khan at the Labour Irish society event. He said there are two reasons he loves coming to Labour Conference.

“One is the reception at the Labour Party Irish Society reception.

“The second is to get away from all the Sharia Law in London”

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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 11d

keep it 💯

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Aidan Harding @aidanharding.bsky.social · 12d

I love this picture of Aurora carefully watching my son while he tests the new brake pads on his bike. She's such a gift of a dog for a young boy

A German Shepherd sitting calmly on a country lane watching a boy cycle towards her. The lane is surrounded by green hedges and backed by mature trees

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 12d

Miliband says it's 'possible' government should come off Elon Musk's X social media platform

DO IT

www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 13d

“My wife went to Riyadh to see an edgy comedian”
“Jimmy Carr?”
“No, she went of her own accord”

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Edward Elderman @elderman.bsky.social · 14d

This only happens to you once

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 16d

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).

But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

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Aidan Harding @aidanharding.bsky.social · 16d

This is quite balanced on AI;DR. Not all AI docs are bad, but I've certainly received some in the shape of coherent thought, but with no structured thought behind them. And this needs to become unacceptable behaviour

Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 16d

hbr.org/2025/09/ai-g...

AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity

Despite a surge in generative AI use across workplaces, most companies are seeing little measurable ROI. One possible reason is because AI tools are being used to produce “workslop”—content that appea...

hbr.org

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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 16d

Farage wanting to kick people out of the country because they migrated here made me angry and made me think about which best of British people and things wouldn't have happened were it not for the brilliance of immigration to the UK.

Sgt Peppers album cover consisting of things that only made it because of immigration in to the UK, either immigrants themselves, the children of or as a result of someone else coming here.

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Aidan Harding @aidanharding.bsky.social · 17d

Said nobody anywhere, ever

A duolingo screenshot of a French person saying "I prefer American bread"

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Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 18d

Something I've found really fruitful for me as an architectural principle is understanding that you can simplify a complication, but you have to adapt to complexity.

Which means that complicated things can be abstracted over, but complexity requires re-framing and demands novelty.

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