Mark Ross is Writing Trailhead Badges
@markrossflownatic.bsky.social
He/him. Husband and father writing Flow Trailhead content for Salesforce. The original Flownatic. I play games and write sci-fi stories. Bigotry and greed are the enemies of civilization. AI art is theft. My opinions are my own.
It's that time of the year again... when everyone comes together from around the world to explore Salesforce...
By completing a brand new Trailhead badge!
trailhead.salesforce.com/content/lear...
That's right, Flow Builder's biggest training gap has now been plugged! It's time to get loopy!
By completing a brand new Trailhead badge!
trailhead.salesforce.com/content/lear...
That's right, Flow Builder's biggest training gap has now been plugged! It's time to get loopy!
two men in suits and ties are standing next to each other and one of them is saying i love loop
Alt: The characters from the movie Anchorman saying "i love loop"
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October 13, 2025 at 4:22 PM
It's that time of the year again... when everyone comes together from around the world to explore Salesforce...
By completing a brand new Trailhead badge!
trailhead.salesforce.com/content/lear...
That's right, Flow Builder's biggest training gap has now been plugged! It's time to get loopy!
By completing a brand new Trailhead badge!
trailhead.salesforce.com/content/lear...
That's right, Flow Builder's biggest training gap has now been plugged! It's time to get loopy!
Get your fresh new Flow Builder Trailhead badge, hot out of the oven! This one's about making flows that work with agents, and explains how to configure agents to work with your flows as well. Have a slice!
trailhead.salesforce.com/content/lear...
trailhead.salesforce.com/content/lear...
a stainless steel stove with a digital display showing the time as 8:51
Alt: a puppet chef pulling a cooked pizza out of the oven
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May 29, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Get your fresh new Flow Builder Trailhead badge, hot out of the oven! This one's about making flows that work with agents, and explains how to configure agents to work with your flows as well. Have a slice!
trailhead.salesforce.com/content/lear...
trailhead.salesforce.com/content/lear...
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Pope Leo XIV speaks out against AI: ‘A challenge of human dignity, justice and labour’
Pope Leo XIV speaks against AI: ‘A challenge of human dignity, justice and labour’
New leader of the Catholic Church says AI poses challenge to humankind and dignity of workers
www.independent.co.uk
May 10, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Pope Leo XIV speaks out against AI: ‘A challenge of human dignity, justice and labour’
Me seeing the insane amount of flow updates coming in the next release and thinking about how much Trailhead updating I'll be doing
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Alt: a horrible monster staring in dismayed disbelief
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May 6, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Me seeing the insane amount of flow updates coming in the next release and thinking about how much Trailhead updating I'll be doing
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Did I mention this badge is worth 2000 points??
My brand new Flow Builder badge was just released on Trailhead yesterday!
MULTIRECORD ELEMENTS AND TRANSFORMS IN FLOWS
It's our first badge on the Transform element! We also cover the Collection Sort and Collection Filter elements. Come check it out! trailhead.salesforce.com/content/lear...
MULTIRECORD ELEMENTS AND TRANSFORMS IN FLOWS
It's our first badge on the Transform element! We also cover the Collection Sort and Collection Filter elements. Come check it out! trailhead.salesforce.com/content/lear...
Multirecord Elements and Transforms in Flows
Transform, sort, and filter collection variables to create and update multiple records.
trailhead.salesforce.com
March 7, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Did I mention this badge is worth 2000 points??
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My brand new Flow Builder badge was just released on Trailhead yesterday!
MULTIRECORD ELEMENTS AND TRANSFORMS IN FLOWS
It's our first badge on the Transform element! We also cover the Collection Sort and Collection Filter elements. Come check it out! trailhead.salesforce.com/content/lear...
MULTIRECORD ELEMENTS AND TRANSFORMS IN FLOWS
It's our first badge on the Transform element! We also cover the Collection Sort and Collection Filter elements. Come check it out! trailhead.salesforce.com/content/lear...
Multirecord Elements and Transforms in Flows
Transform, sort, and filter collection variables to create and update multiple records.
trailhead.salesforce.com
March 4, 2025 at 11:03 AM
My brand new Flow Builder badge was just released on Trailhead yesterday!
MULTIRECORD ELEMENTS AND TRANSFORMS IN FLOWS
It's our first badge on the Transform element! We also cover the Collection Sort and Collection Filter elements. Come check it out! trailhead.salesforce.com/content/lear...
MULTIRECORD ELEMENTS AND TRANSFORMS IN FLOWS
It's our first badge on the Transform element! We also cover the Collection Sort and Collection Filter elements. Come check it out! trailhead.salesforce.com/content/lear...
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I can't believe America has so degraded that I even have to post this...but I do.
This is a very VERY SUPER-important guide. PLEASE READ AND SHARE. verfassungsblog.de/the-authorit...
This is a very VERY SUPER-important guide. PLEASE READ AND SHARE. verfassungsblog.de/the-authorit...
The Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide
This text was published in social media in January 2017 in a series of improvised, spontaneous tweets, which reached 3 million views within one month. Their common element was their trademark signatur...
verfassungsblog.de
February 3, 2025 at 12:19 AM
I can't believe America has so degraded that I even have to post this...but I do.
This is a very VERY SUPER-important guide. PLEASE READ AND SHARE. verfassungsblog.de/the-authorit...
This is a very VERY SUPER-important guide. PLEASE READ AND SHARE. verfassungsblog.de/the-authorit...
How is it that teenagers have infinite capacity to worry about absolute bullshit?
kermit the frog from sesame street is sitting at a table with his arms outstretched
Alt: kermit the frog collapsing and flailing about in frustration
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December 19, 2024 at 8:11 AM
How is it that teenagers have infinite capacity to worry about absolute bullshit?
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...
December 11, 2024 at 6:59 PM
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...
🚨 NEW TRAILHEAD BADGE ALERT 🚨
I've published a new Trailhead badge called Quick Start: Build Reactive Screen Flows! Learn how to make your flow screen components react to your users' input. Get your hands-on and build a reactive screen yourself!
trailhead.salesforce.com/content/lear...
I've published a new Trailhead badge called Quick Start: Build Reactive Screen Flows! Learn how to make your flow screen components react to your users' input. Get your hands-on and build a reactive screen yourself!
trailhead.salesforce.com/content/lear...
Quick Start: Build Reactive Screen Flows
Build screen flow components that react immediately to user input.
trailhead.salesforce.com
December 11, 2024 at 2:25 PM
🚨 NEW TRAILHEAD BADGE ALERT 🚨
I've published a new Trailhead badge called Quick Start: Build Reactive Screen Flows! Learn how to make your flow screen components react to your users' input. Get your hands-on and build a reactive screen yourself!
trailhead.salesforce.com/content/lear...
I've published a new Trailhead badge called Quick Start: Build Reactive Screen Flows! Learn how to make your flow screen components react to your users' input. Get your hands-on and build a reactive screen yourself!
trailhead.salesforce.com/content/lear...
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Exciting news - the CFP for London's Calling 2025 is open!
Please read the post below for all the details and get your thinking caps on, we can't wait to read your submissions.
#LC25 #LdnsCall25 #TrailblazerCommunity #Salesforce #CommunityConference
www.londonscalling.net/lc25_cfp/
Please read the post below for all the details and get your thinking caps on, we can't wait to read your submissions.
#LC25 #LdnsCall25 #TrailblazerCommunity #Salesforce #CommunityConference
www.londonscalling.net/lc25_cfp/
London’s Calling 2025 CFP is Open until 9th Feb
The call for presentations for London’s Calling 2025 is open – – until Sunday February 9th We welcome presentations on all areas of the platform, or even Salesforce adjacent. If you hav…
www.londonscalling.net
December 10, 2024 at 2:13 PM
Exciting news - the CFP for London's Calling 2025 is open!
Please read the post below for all the details and get your thinking caps on, we can't wait to read your submissions.
#LC25 #LdnsCall25 #TrailblazerCommunity #Salesforce #CommunityConference
www.londonscalling.net/lc25_cfp/
Please read the post below for all the details and get your thinking caps on, we can't wait to read your submissions.
#LC25 #LdnsCall25 #TrailblazerCommunity #Salesforce #CommunityConference
www.londonscalling.net/lc25_cfp/
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December 5, 2024 at 9:46 AM
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So if you wonder how soon America will suffer the fate of South Korea, consider this order of events:
1. Pat Cipollone and Pat Philbin stop Trump from executing the Waldron Plot—a coup plot involving martial law.
2. Kash Patel puts the Pats on his hitlist.
3. Trump nominates Patel for FBI Director.
1. Pat Cipollone and Pat Philbin stop Trump from executing the Waldron Plot—a coup plot involving martial law.
2. Kash Patel puts the Pats on his hitlist.
3. Trump nominates Patel for FBI Director.
December 4, 2024 at 12:20 AM
So if you wonder how soon America will suffer the fate of South Korea, consider this order of events:
1. Pat Cipollone and Pat Philbin stop Trump from executing the Waldron Plot—a coup plot involving martial law.
2. Kash Patel puts the Pats on his hitlist.
3. Trump nominates Patel for FBI Director.
1. Pat Cipollone and Pat Philbin stop Trump from executing the Waldron Plot—a coup plot involving martial law.
2. Kash Patel puts the Pats on his hitlist.
3. Trump nominates Patel for FBI Director.
The South Korean people, its trade unions and its legislature, stood up against a blatant fascism grab and fought it down to the ground. Meanwhile in America...
a man with gray hair is crying and says i love democracy
Alt: Palpatine, a politician in Star Wars who lied and cheated and stole and committed many heinous crimes in secret all to put himself in a position where he'd be able to make himself a fascist emperor and abolish the democratic government, telling the senate that he loves democracy.
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December 4, 2024 at 9:03 AM
The South Korean people, its trade unions and its legislature, stood up against a blatant fascism grab and fought it down to the ground. Meanwhile in America...
THIS is what you have to keep in mind when you're writing documentation and training. You mustn't just avoid assuming they know what you know. You MUST assume by default that they know 10% of your topic, at best. Otherwise you'll lose over half of your readers and your doc is functionally useless.
Lots of folks saying “I’m in tech and I don’t get it either” and what I’m saying is…it’s even more mysterious than that for a lot of us. I don’t understand most of the words you use. You gotta understand how even the smallest piece of your knowledge is alien.
December 3, 2024 at 9:28 AM
THIS is what you have to keep in mind when you're writing documentation and training. You mustn't just avoid assuming they know what you know. You MUST assume by default that they know 10% of your topic, at best. Otherwise you'll lose over half of your readers and your doc is functionally useless.
Well for November I didn't come anywhere near 50k for my personal story writing. But I did get 11k done, which is massive for me. And I'm probably about 10% through of this story. Lots to go!
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Alt: a cat trying to run up a slide and not making any progress
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December 2, 2024 at 11:19 AM
Well for November I didn't come anywhere near 50k for my personal story writing. But I did get 11k done, which is massive for me. And I'm probably about 10% through of this story. Lots to go!
Living in the UK now and with my extended family back in the States, I don't feel much need to "celebrate" a true Thanksgiving, nor to Give Thanks for whatever the Pilgrims tried to do. But we still do a mean roast dinner. No yorkshire puds this time because we did mini apple pies instead.
November 29, 2024 at 12:12 PM
Living in the UK now and with my extended family back in the States, I don't feel much need to "celebrate" a true Thanksgiving, nor to Give Thanks for whatever the Pilgrims tried to do. But we still do a mean roast dinner. No yorkshire puds this time because we did mini apple pies instead.
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Since it's cold and flu season and you may also be traveling tomorrow
November 28, 2024 at 2:34 AM
Since it's cold and flu season and you may also be traveling tomorrow
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So a long long time, when I was very young, I got married to a guy after the second time I failed out of college, and we got along fine and didn’t have too many problems when he saw me as a dropout who was supporting him by working full time while he finished a college degree.
One of the things that was common listening to (almost entirely women) give acceptance speeches for winning awards for writing romance novels was how many of them praised their husbands for doing basic household chores.
Once you realize that a lot of men only value their wives in terms of what they do for them or for their children/families, you can't unsee how almost all of the praise from men to their wives has nothing to do with them personally and everything to do with the quality of service.
November 27, 2024 at 6:34 PM
So a long long time, when I was very young, I got married to a guy after the second time I failed out of college, and we got along fine and didn’t have too many problems when he saw me as a dropout who was supporting him by working full time while he finished a college degree.
All AI art, including art forms like writing, is fundamentally anti-humanist. It steals human thoughts and feelings, to poorly create things that are intended to emulate and replace human thoughts and feelings.
I find this combination of articles concerning:
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/t...
www.theverge.com/2024/11/26/2...
If anyone wants to get rid of those pesky author and publisher royalties... it's Amazon.
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/t...
www.theverge.com/2024/11/26/2...
If anyone wants to get rid of those pesky author and publisher royalties... it's Amazon.
Amazon Invests $4 Billion in Anthropic, Deepening Its A.I. Ties
Since last September, the tech giant has pumped $8 billion into the artificial intelligence start-up, a sign of intense competition in developing tools that are reshaping the tech sector.
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2024 at 9:12 PM
All AI art, including art forms like writing, is fundamentally anti-humanist. It steals human thoughts and feelings, to poorly create things that are intended to emulate and replace human thoughts and feelings.
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It's true, we are teaming up with the wonderful Admin & Dev groups for our Holiday Megameet 🍾
We have @pchittum.com & @markrossflownatic.bsky.social back as Quizmasters + our usual review of the year, all hosted by Publicis Sapient.
#TrailblazerCommunity trailblazercommunitygroups.com/e/mcbz52/
We have @pchittum.com & @markrossflownatic.bsky.social back as Quizmasters + our usual review of the year, all hosted by Publicis Sapient.
#TrailblazerCommunity trailblazercommunitygroups.com/e/mcbz52/
It's the most wonderful time of the year - the London Community Holiday + Xmas Megameet.
Join the our Devs, @lonsfwit.bsky.social + Admins for some ugly sweaters, festive fun, year in review, + world famous quiz.
Huge ❤️ to hosts+sponsors Publicis Sapient.
trailblazercommunitygroups.com/e/myxjjg/
Join the our Devs, @lonsfwit.bsky.social + Admins for some ugly sweaters, festive fun, year in review, + world famous quiz.
Huge ❤️ to hosts+sponsors Publicis Sapient.
trailblazercommunitygroups.com/e/myxjjg/
November 27, 2024 at 3:24 PM
It's true, we are teaming up with the wonderful Admin & Dev groups for our Holiday Megameet 🍾
We have @pchittum.com & @markrossflownatic.bsky.social back as Quizmasters + our usual review of the year, all hosted by Publicis Sapient.
#TrailblazerCommunity trailblazercommunitygroups.com/e/mcbz52/
We have @pchittum.com & @markrossflownatic.bsky.social back as Quizmasters + our usual review of the year, all hosted by Publicis Sapient.
#TrailblazerCommunity trailblazercommunitygroups.com/e/mcbz52/
A number of well-known artists are reporting that there are accounts impersonating them on Bluesky. Probably trying to gin up mistrust in the platform or some such bollocks.
Be on the lookout! Don't trust any requests that could be scams, even if they look like they're from your favorite creators!
Be on the lookout! Don't trust any requests that could be scams, even if they look like they're from your favorite creators!
For example, here's an account impersonating me: bsky.app/profile/mart... They must have grabbed my name not long after I verified my account which changed it to my domain name. Please report and block it.
bsky.app
November 27, 2024 at 3:26 PM
A number of well-known artists are reporting that there are accounts impersonating them on Bluesky. Probably trying to gin up mistrust in the platform or some such bollocks.
Be on the lookout! Don't trust any requests that could be scams, even if they look like they're from your favorite creators!
Be on the lookout! Don't trust any requests that could be scams, even if they look like they're from your favorite creators!