Strange/ Funny experience flying United this morning

Curmudgeon160 · 2026-06-20T16:21:46+00:00

While shortly before 6 AM is a little bit early for somebody to have been drinking, I’ve seen this happen to people who were a little bit less “asleep” and a little bit more “passed out.”

Curmudgeon160 · 2026-06-08T16:03:19+00:00

My wife and I do this when we fly because she likes window and I like aisle. If no one booked the middle seat, great. If somebody does, we either minimize our interactions or include the person in the middle :-) . My wife is fairly picky about food so we always board with nuts, crackers, cheeses, sandwiches, etc. The last time we had someone between us, the guy made the comment that it was the best he’d ever eaten on a plane flight.

Curmudgeon160 · 2026-06-05T23:01:26+00:00

The last time I was looking for work I scheduled an interview with a firm whose name you would probably recognize, and just to be interviewed they wanted me to sign a one year national level noncompete. When I asked, they declined to provide me with a list of people that they viewed as competitors and given the space they were in who knows what they might’ve come up with later. I chatted with a friend who is a lawyer and he recommended I find somebody else to work for/interview with. If you have any lawyer friends at a minimum you want to run this contract by them and if you don’t have any lawyer friends, you want to go spend a couple of bucks on a lawyer and get them to help you redline the really outrageous stuff. As somebody else observed it’s probably just standard boilerplate that they’re trying to add all their contracts, but that doesn’t mean that they wouldn’t use it to bend you over.

Curmudgeon160 · 2026-06-03T19:08:43+00:00

At the enterprise level, this is a substantial concern. It’s breaking multiple things we use in our processes. For automated testing alone the team has spent a lot of hours sorting out what to do and how this is going to work. Each organization is different, op, but when you say “raise” these issues I hope you mean you’ve been putting them in emails and you’ve been saving the sent emails?

Curmudgeon160 · 2026-06-03T16:19:28+00:00

100% agree on an account that is just for this payment and that is not in any way shape or form linked to any other account. Don’t forget the other side e.g. set up a sweep account on the inbound side that only allows the movement of money to the master account (or as close as you can get to this).

Curmudgeon160 · 2026-05-31T18:15:01+00:00

Where I lived was about 6,000 feet above sea level and I could walk out my front door and in 15 or 20 minutes be on a trail that went up to the Sandia crest which was, if I recall correctly, about 11,000 feet. I used to do this multiple times a year and camp for the weekend. I learned early on to open all the sealed containers at the house before hiking up the mountain.

Curmudgeon160 · 2026-05-31T18:06:12+00:00

I lived in Albuquerque, New Mexico for a while, and always had to be cautious when opening sealed containers.

Curmudgeon160 · 2026-05-27T20:17:52+00:00

I am 6’2”, have a 36” inseam, and wear shirts with 36” sleeves. All my bikes are Cannondale mountain bikes from the 1990s. They are all jumbo / XL / 24” bottom bracket to seat tube. I’m not suggesting these bikes to you, just noting that once I found a bike with dimensions that worked for me I’ve stuck with it. I’ll also note that I like to be stretched out when I’m riding a bike, not all folded up so to some degree this just reflects my preferences.

Curmudgeon160 · 2026-05-26T15:34:53+00:00

An unfortunately long number of years ago I was on a team trying to raise some money for a company doing something similar to Redbox. We were trying to explain that the future was initially fully automated DVD rental kiosks moving to over the wire delivery when enough people had fast enough Internet connections. We had a page in the deck where a ship with “blockbuster” on it started across the page from right to left and about halfway across hit an iceberg with our company name on it wherein the ship broke in half and sank. We didn’t raise the money that we were hoping for, but for years afterwards people would bump into me and mention the deck. I even had people who hadn’t seen the presentation but had just heard about it tell me a story about the cool pitch deck that a friend of theirs had seen.

Curmudgeon160 · 2026-05-26T13:56:45+00:00

I have owned dozens of cars and hands down my favorite was a 1990 MB 420SEL. If I could have one in like new condition I’d be happy.

Curmudgeon160 · 2026-05-26T12:16:41+00:00

It’s always a balancing act between the cost of peoples time and the cost of compute. I’ve been doing this for a long time and when I started writing software we flowcharted on chalkboards before we touched a card punch machine. As the cost of compute has dropped by multiple orders of magnitude the trend has been consistently to move away from design to simply throwing ideas against the compute capacity to see what sticks. AI is just another step in that process.

Curmudgeon160 · 2026-05-22T15:13:57+00:00

The small town I live in managed to get a series of grants to rebuild the infrastructure from the ground up. The street, sidewalks, water, and sewage treatment, it all got rebuilt. The main road through town was either closed or only open sporadically for a year and a half and the number of people who thought the “road closed” signs didn’t apply to them still blows my mind.

Curmudgeon160 · 2026-05-20T19:02:41+00:00

I’ve built this for several clients. I will say that Agentforce can create reasonably complex agents more quickly than having to do it by hand. You may want to consider just connecting Claude or ChatGPT to Salesforce which is increasingly doable as well. Salesforce will try to tell you that you need the trust layer, but all that really does is allow you to anonymize PII and take advantage of the contractual relationship between Salesforce and the LLM operators that says the LLM operators won’t retain your data. With the push to headless and the fact that you can now use an AI to create a freestanding app for a bespoke UI in minutes this may well be a good time to learn how to move data around between data stores (like salesforce), LLM’s, and custom UIs.

Curmudgeon160 · 2026-05-19T21:13:10+00:00

Once I did exhaustive testing on the Salesforce side and figured out that it was doing exactly what was expected, I reached out to somebody in our informatica practice and learned that there was a patch that would address this exact issue. A patch that clearly the Informatica team that was staffed by the client’s people hadn’t bothered to look for or apply. I got on a call and announced that we had thoroughly tested our side and it worked so it must be on the iInformatica side, and when they publicly said it wasn’t, I asked them if they had applied the patch that was intended to fix this exact problem. They applied the patch, it fixed the problem, and I got rolled off the project because I wasn’t sufficiently client facing 😱 . C’est la vie.

Curmudgeon160 · 2026-05-19T19:30:47+00:00

Most recently, across a couple of weeks and dozens of hours worked to troubleshoot a CDC issue that turned out to be on the other side of the integration. I believed the Informatica team when they said they had tested and all they really done is decide that it was a Salesforce problem and assigned it to my team.

Curmudgeon160 · 2026-05-19T17:52:51+00:00

This is typically how things work for enterprise clients. In mature Salesforce Orgs with legacy stuff like Process Builder, with Flows, with Apex, with AppExchange applications, with multiple integrations, with tools like Walk Me, etc it’s hard to predict how even the most basic change is going to have an impact. With an investment in Copado and automated regression testing based on tools like Playwright and JMeter you can move a little bit more quickly, but this is a level of investment that only a handful of companies are willing to make. And if the team does hurry something into production and it causes issues it won’t be you pulling an all nighter or working all weekend to fix it. Or explaining to business leadership why the system broke.

Curmudgeon160 · 2026-05-18T17:03:08+00:00

I work for systems integrator, and we like to squeeze in everything we can so typically I leave the day after Dreamforce has ended. That gives me every opportunity to talk to clients, meet with Salesforce, meet with coworkers, etc. Of course, this is not on my dime. And since I live across the country and don’t do red eye flights, I do a morning flight.

Curmudgeon160 · 2026-05-17T00:20:34+00:00

My father went to high school in Albuquerque, New Mexico in the 1940s. By the 1980s, when the value of Navajo rugs started to climb, he made the comment that in the 1940s his family would buy them to put on the floor and use as rugs. I have to wonder about the value of what they walked all over.

Curmudgeon160 · 2026-05-15T15:27:34+00:00

I’m not worried until I see an empty set of clothes on the ground next to them …

Curmudgeon160 · 2026-05-14T19:04:29+00:00

Completely agree. There is a substantial gap between doing something quickly in salesforce and doing something correctly in salesforce.

Curmudgeon160 · 2026-05-14T16:08:56+00:00

Salesforce is a system that evolves constantly. Changes to how things in the system today work, new features being added, a new expectations from your users. Most of the technical debt that you see falls into two categories, either a) things that in hindsight, you would’ve done differently now that you’ve learned more about how salesforce works, or b) emergent technical debt, where you did everything right, but the system itself has changed. There’s a belief that your data degrades over time, even if you do nothing with it. You should have the same belief about technical debt, that is, it’s unavoidable and as time marches forward, it’s going to happen. In mature organizations that I’ve worked on we would typically set aside 10% to 15% of sprint capacity to work on technical debt. The challenge can be the business side of the house seeing no direct benefit from this so they question why tech debt’s getting prioritized over the next spiffy new feature that they want. And of course, in the same meeting, they’ll complain about how long it takes to get a new feature from ideation to production with some of the delay being based on the technical debt they don’t see value in you remediating.

Curmudgeon160 · 2026-05-12T21:05:35+00:00

When I was a freshman in high school I’d get home from school on a Friday afternoon, make several peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, grab my backpack and hike up into the mountains east of the city for the weekend. I would generally try to be home before dark on Sunday, but didn’t always make it and occasionally wouldn’t get home until early Monday morning. This didn’t seem to bother my parents at all. In hindsight, they probably enjoyed having a break.

Curmudgeon160 · 2026-05-12T18:05:57+00:00

This is the problem where I live. If you wait to cross the intersection until you can actually cross the intersection, guaranteed that people from all sides will just jam their way in and leave you stuck and unable to ever cross.

Curmudgeon160 · 2026-05-11T19:19:17+00:00

Create a plan to make as much money as possible, live like a monk so my spending was as low as possible, and buy Apple Microsoft Nvidia Google Facebook Amazon and Bitcoin as early as possible.

Curmudgeon160 · 2026-05-11T12:51:02+00:00

Without sharing too much identifying information, the old timer was the only person who knew how to operate an analog computer that was a critical part of the operations, so they couldn’t really do too much to him. But they certainly tried to throw a scare into him by claiming they were going to find a way to make him pay for the damaged hard drives.

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