A letter to my first org
A demonstration of the bare narrow layout — no sidebar, no cover, just a reading column — carrying the one non-technical post every site needs.
This post doubles as a layout demo: sidebar: false drops the rail and
centres the column at reading width, which is the shape for writing that is
not reference material — nobody needs a table of contents for a letter.
Dear org 00D4x0000012345,
I am sorry about the trigger. All four of them, on Account, each written in a different year by a different version of me, each convinced it was the last one anyone would need. I know now why the platform people talk about one trigger per object the way they do — they had met me before I arrived.
I am sorry about Amount2__c. You know what you did, and so do I.
Thank you for the governor limits. I called them many things in 2017, none printable, all wrong. They were the only code review I had that year — the only voice in the building saying this will not scale to someone who did not yet know the word “scale” could apply to him.
You taught me that every org is an archaeology site, that every weird field had a reasonable Tuesday behind it, and that the person whose mess I was cursing was usually me with less sleep. I have cursed gently ever since, in your honour.
The new org says hello. It has one trigger per object. You would hate it.
— A.
