Aidan Harding
@aidanharding.bsky.social
Working on business process mining/AI on Salesforce for Processity. Also trail running and country living in N Devon
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just in case nobody has done it before
November 18, 2025 at 4:50 PM
just in case nobody has done it before
The 1000 yard stare of a dog who did not want to be bathed. She did look punk, and she did get treats, so not all bad
November 17, 2025 at 11:01 AM
The 1000 yard stare of a dog who did not want to be bathed. She did look punk, and she did get treats, so not all bad
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NEWS! Children in Need celebrates raising less than half the amount Michelle Mone still owes the government for faulty PPE
Children in Need celebrates raising less than half the amount Michelle Mone still owes the government for faulty PPE
Friday night saw Children in Need raise an incredible £46m, which is about 40% of the amount of money still owed by companies linked to Michelle Mone for faulty PPE delivered during the covid pande…
buff.ly
November 15, 2025 at 9:21 AM
NEWS! Children in Need celebrates raising less than half the amount Michelle Mone still owes the government for faulty PPE
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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
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November 14, 2025 at 10:22 PM
"Tax tapas" 🎯
Added to that, the "tax tapas" approach they're going for seems likely to involve taking away all sorts of other goodies - salary sacrifice benefits, pension tax benefits - from a similar upper middle income working age bit of the electorate. I think they will notice.
November 14, 2025 at 9:38 PM
"Tax tapas" 🎯
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AI is everywhere, but what does it mean for Salesforce developers?
Join us on 25 Nov as @aidanharding.bsky.social covers thriving with AI and Keir Bowden dives into fine-tuning LLMs.
Thanks to Mason Frank International and RocketPhone.ai for supporting the #TrailblazerCommunity.
Join us on 25 Nov as @aidanharding.bsky.social covers thriving with AI and Keir Bowden dives into fine-tuning LLMs.
Thanks to Mason Frank International and RocketPhone.ai for supporting the #TrailblazerCommunity.
November 14, 2025 at 9:38 AM
AI is everywhere, but what does it mean for Salesforce developers?
Join us on 25 Nov as @aidanharding.bsky.social covers thriving with AI and Keir Bowden dives into fine-tuning LLMs.
Thanks to Mason Frank International and RocketPhone.ai for supporting the #TrailblazerCommunity.
Join us on 25 Nov as @aidanharding.bsky.social covers thriving with AI and Keir Bowden dives into fine-tuning LLMs.
Thanks to Mason Frank International and RocketPhone.ai for supporting the #TrailblazerCommunity.
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“So we asked ourselves: how could we make the common bicycle heavier, more dangerous and, ultimately, reliant on electricity”
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
November 12, 2025 at 12:17 PM
“So we asked ourselves: how could we make the common bicycle heavier, more dangerous and, ultimately, reliant on electricity”
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
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Of all the AI concerns, the one about wanting to replace management with algorithms is the most monkeys-paw-ish.
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November 11, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Of all the AI concerns, the one about wanting to replace management with algorithms is the most monkeys-paw-ish.
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All the weather from sunshine to hail on #exmoor today #trailrunning
November 2, 2025 at 1:46 PM
All the weather from sunshine to hail on #exmoor today #trailrunning
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“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess...”
Per Danny Kemp via press pool
Trump is at the Halloween party at MAL
“Official theme is Gatsby and ‘a little party never killed nobody’, we’re told.”
Trump is at the Halloween party at MAL
“Official theme is Gatsby and ‘a little party never killed nobody’, we’re told.”
November 1, 2025 at 3:09 AM
“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess...”
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![Cartoon by Stephen Collins for the Guardian.
[Scene is BBC BREAKFAST with two presenters and a guest on the sofa].
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PRESENTER:
Now - some disturbing new research has shown
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PRESENTER:
that as many as 10 non-Reform political parties may currently operating ‘under the radar’ across the UK.
[Show on screen logos for Greens, Lib Dems, Conservatives
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PRESENTER:
In the studio to discuss this, Nigel Farage
[We see the guest on the sofa is indeed Nigel Farage]
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PRESENTER:
Nigel, what’s your view?
FARAGE:
Well I think this very worrying.
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FARAGE:
And just another reason why we should ban all immigration.
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PRESENTER:
I won’t push back on that
FARAGE:
Absolutely!
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PRESENTER:
Funnily enough, this is what your new show’s about, isn’t it?
FARAGE:
Oop - plug time!
PRESENTER:
Ha ha
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FARAGE:
Yes it’s a 12-part BBC documentary called ‘In Search Of The Political Parties That Aren’t My One’.
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[Show on the TV screen Farage presenting a documentary series titled In Search Of The Political Parties That Aren’t My One. He is wearing his farmer's getup and looking dreamily at the UK from hillsides, visiting pubs and chatting with the locals, etc]
FARAGE:
It’s a really emotional journey
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FARAGE:
with lots of dreamy footage of me looking relatable...
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FARAGE:
as I answer the question:
*Am I the only option for Britain?*
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[Cut back to studio]
PRESENTER:
I won’t push back on that
FARAGE:
Absolutely!
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Product management: you have two weeks to get me 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, or 13 cows.
Systems design: you have two cows. one of the cows dies; it drops 25 xp, 2x leather, 1x meat.
Narrative design: you have two cows. one of the cows dies; the other cow uses a salience-based storylet system to react with an appropriate bark ("moooo")
3c design: you have two cows. they can airdash
Narrative design: you have two cows. one of the cows dies; the other cow uses a salience-based storylet system to react with an appropriate bark ("moooo")
3c design: you have two cows. they can airdash
October 23, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Product management: you have two weeks to get me 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, or 13 cows.
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On shared mental models: developers sandbag estimates when they do not understand what's being asked. A lot of product management effort is spent on managing those sandbagged estimates, rather than on creating the clarity that will obviate the need for them.
October 21, 2025 at 3:56 PM
On shared mental models: developers sandbag estimates when they do not understand what's being asked. A lot of product management effort is spent on managing those sandbagged estimates, rather than on creating the clarity that will obviate the need for them.
Very good! Reminds me of an article about Duolingo being too easy. If you slice the work too thinly, it can lose almost all worth
"This is an aspect of elephant-consumption that’s often overlooked as well: it’s elephant for dinner every day for a very long time"
"This is an aspect of elephant-consumption that’s often overlooked as well: it’s elephant for dinner every day for a very long time"
I wrote a sad blog post about book clubs. einarwh.no/blog/2025/10...
The problem of the pages
einarwh.no
October 14, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Very good! Reminds me of an article about Duolingo being too easy. If you slice the work too thinly, it can lose almost all worth
"This is an aspect of elephant-consumption that’s often overlooked as well: it’s elephant for dinner every day for a very long time"
"This is an aspect of elephant-consumption that’s often overlooked as well: it’s elephant for dinner every day for a very long time"
Trail run fun on Exmoor. When Aurora is really enjoying herself, she's too fast for the camera! #trailrunning #exmoor
October 12, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Trail run fun on Exmoor. When Aurora is really enjoying herself, she's too fast for the camera! #trailrunning #exmoor
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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
Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but
October 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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
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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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...
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...
October 10, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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...
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...
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Sometimes the constraint is Mb/s, sometimes it's WTF/s
October 8, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Sometimes the constraint is Mb/s, sometimes it's WTF/s
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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
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
October 7, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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
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
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
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.
October 7, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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
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I saved this from Tumblr just yesterday bc I needed it.
October 6, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I saved this from Tumblr just yesterday bc I needed it.