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I'm not really a podcast person, but my cousin Taylor got me hooked on "How I Built This by Guy Raz" and I keep replaying the same episodes. Here are my five favorites, from Buzzfeed and Kate Spade to Rivian, Alice Waters, and Instagram, plus the ones I almost couldn't leave off the list.
My yearly Father's Day note to my dad Todd, except this time I tried to write from a deeper spot. I get into the rough patch where we didn't speak for months in school, how one normal conversation flipped that overnight, and the heavier stuff we got through together this year, from me being best man at my brother's COVID-delayed wedding to our Thanksgiving in Kauai where Todd is his happiest self.
I bought a Fitbit mostly for its API, poked at it with node.js, then got curious how far Salesforce could take it. Here's the easiest 2016 path I found for wiring Fitbit data into Salesforce: setting up the dev app, then OAuth via Auth Providers and Named Credentials. Fair warning, we get our hands dirty.
The salmon fly hatch hit the Deschutes, so I swapped both rods over to big foam dries and went hunting. I only fished a few hours but landed seven healthy adults while the river boiled with stoneflies, mayflies, and caddis. Stick around for the play-by-play of stalking a redside and hooking him on the very first cast into a tucked-away pool.
A coworker at Salesforce built a slick Visualforce page that shows your org usage against the limits in nice gauge-style graphs, and I liked it enough that I wrapped it into a tab and an unmanaged package so you can install it without touching any code. It's harmless and handy for a quick gut-check on whether you're bumping up against your limits. (Credit goes to Jay, not me.)