Featured Posts
The posts I really hope you’ll read
APIs
- Intro to HTTP (a quick fundamental skill behind understanding modern APIs)
- Intro to XML & JSON (facilitates reading API documentation & playing with APIs)
- In Salesforce, there are 3 different ways you hear the word API, and they’re not the same as each other, and it’s really confusing.
Web development
- What is static web hosting? and What is a static site generator?
- How to componentize a static web site to make it a “page builder” like Wix
- No need to read past “End goal HTML” & “Page data structure” if you’re not specifically working with the Gatsby static site generator. Stop when you get to “Files” if you’re just interested in the theory.
- No need to read past “End goal HTML” & “Page data structure” if you’re not specifically working with the Gatsby static site generator. Stop when you get to “Files” if you’re just interested in the theory.
Popular posts
- Installing Python on Windows via Miniconda or VSCodde
- How to tell if the (now-happened) Salesforce Guest-User-Pocalypse was going to impact you
- Installing VSCode to edit Salesforce metadata
- Two different approaches to fetching silly GIFs from an API and displaying them in a Screen Flow: via Apex-Defined Data Types & Invocable Apex & via External Services.
- You can get a TL;DR of External Services and see it do something actually useful by watching the 5-minute lightning talk APIs are for admins from Cactusforce 2021.
- You can listen to the “why” and a bit of the “how” in my appearance on an official Salesforce podcast, Data Development and Integrations.
- Rate-limiting API requests in Python with a decorator
- Filter a large CSV file with Python
- Choosing a headless CMS without losing your head
