SecondJon @SecondJon@qoto.org

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." – C.S. Lewis ( on government response to #COVID and other crises?)

Thanks for the welcome, #@freemo Here's my #introduction .

I'm...
• a dad of a handful of kiddos, married, living in Colorado.
• a Christian in the Anglican tradition, and suppose I'm an unaffiliated conservatarian.
• a reader, working through the great novels as well as easier/fun books and nonfiction.
• a card and board game player and am happily teaching more to my kids as they get older.
• short on free time. I enjoy a philosophical pipe as I read and/or reflect, and occasionally get my guitar or bow/arrows out to learn new skills.
• a software developer... and have been for a very long time, now in the world of APIs and cloud development (CRM/SFDC).

I've done 1-40 so far. A few hundred behind.

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#CellTower 29 was a hard one. Took me revisiting over hours today. Three options for one letter, i only had considered two until just now. 🤦

my method is to not commit a first word until I think I've figured out the whole thing. takes a lot of staring at the screen, but the results look nice.

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https://www.andrewt.net/puzzles/cell-tower/?p=29

Always good to see a famous #quote posted. This one at a door at a hotel.

This was... Aristotle?

Working with #Salesforce chat first the first time in a long time.

Sort of clunky. Embedded/snap in chat doesn't handle dependant picklists. Visualforce prechat form doesn't seem to allow object field mapping to do this either. Bots cost more and have other limits.

My current strategy? Using a screen flow through an aura component including in the Visualforce prechat, using Javascript to pull the output variables into hidden inputs and auto submit the form. It's sorry of half way between a pre chat form and a bot.

I have field values being passed through but... They only appear on the agent #omnichannel hover. Once the chat is accepted, the values are nowhere to be found.

I remember running into this years ago, but don't remember the resolution. That's for today and tomorrow.

Then to see if I can get a flow to work in an LWC in embedded chat.