Stephen Bates
@holdfastsfdc.bsky.social
Certified Salesforce Developer/Admin. Trailhead Ranger, Cali Transplant. Nautical Enthusiast. Tweets/Opinions = My own.
Being thrust into the job-seeking market is never easy, especially when it drags on for months. Despite all your experience and skill, you start to question if it's worth it. But it is. Today I accepted a long term contract role working for Salesforce. A literal dream come true.
Wow, it’s been a minute. Still on the job hunt. Got narrowly beat for an amazing role last week because of a tiny arbitrary thing. Still angry about it, even though the hiring manager 100% wants to bring me on the team and all but committed to do so as soon as he is able to.
It’s a great feeling going into the weekend knowing I have an interview Monday morning. Nice bit of wind in my sails.
Very well known Salesforce recruiter posts about a contract role on LinkedIn, asking for a DM if interested. So I message him within 45 minutes of his post. He sends me a connection request, but otherwise doesn’t reply. Huh?
Enjoying exploring the batch of certifications I want to take on the road to being an architect that focuses on UI/UX.
Also, after a lot of thought I think it’s really going to serve me best to stick with my niche of UI Development in Salesforce and forge my own path towards something like a Salesforce UI Architect
It's a huge relief and confidence booster now that i'm forcing myself to sit down and go through the Trailhead Apex Coding trail, so I can learn it the right away rather than be thrown in the deep end and learn to pick apart existing classes.
For Los Angeles, the Dodgers just saved 2025
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When you get submitted for a job that’s going to have multiple technical interviews
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It’s a hell of a feeling to know that something I wrote is making its way around Salesforce in a way that will probably end up improving a product! Great way to start my day!
Pretty pleased with how the networking efforts over the past 2 months are fueling the job search. Have potential interviews with Block and a few others to schedule, including a consulting company who reached out to me when one of their people saw my post on the Salesforce Ohana Slack 😎
Considering moving all of my project data for my two active projects from ChatGPT to Claude Code. Been reading that the latter excels at longer term complex projects and better output & documentation.
So what’s the over/under now on him declaring Democrats a National threat so they can have their official Fifth Reich? www.aclu.org/news/nationa...
How NSPM-7 Seeks to Use "Domestic Terrorism" to Target Nonprofits and Activists | ACLU
What President Donald Trump’s latest memorandum targeting civil society does, does not, and cannot do
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Just signed up for 'Integration Developer 101' on Cloud Code Academy. Looking forward to closing up that skill gap.
It’s kind of a weird thing existing in a niche corner of Salesforce Development as a primarily Front End guy
Funny how I’ve seen the same role for multiple locations get posted and reposted by Atlassian over the past 2 months when they’ve rejected me twice almost right away. Guys, I’m a solid candidate and I’m going to keep applying until you give me a shot 🤣
Just published something I’ve been nervous (but excited) to share — how Salesforce’s new Agentforce Vibes and SLDS don’t quite speak the same language yet, and how my framework ForceKit could bridge that gap. medium.com/@stephen_675... #Salesforce #DesignSystems #AI #ForceKit
From SLDS to Vibes: Bridging the Gap in Salesforce’s Design Evolution with ForceKit
Salesforce’s new Agentforce Vibes marks the beginning of AI-driven UI composition — but without a bridge between generative intent and…
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Let’s let Agentforce build a flow! WHAT COULD GO WRONG?
Crazy. What started as a fun project and a cool thing to build is turning into a whole Design System layer that extends the Lightning Design System + LWC...a fully native developer-first, SLDS compliant framework. // #salesforce #design
Wait, Benioff actually tried to pretend he gave a crap about the community?
Not even lunchtime and already I have one phone interview request, one solid lead that will probably result in a phone interview, and a former co-worker forwarding my info for some possible consulting work. Starting the week off right!
Finally getting myself a new Trailblazer hoodie - just wish I could get a Ranger patch to go with it.
Applied to great sounding job last week - over 100 applicants. Messaged their Salesforce hiring manager on LinkedIn and guaranteed my application will be viewed next week. Sweet.
Well, shut down my work laptop for the final time and got it ready to ship. Guess I’m a free agent now.
Cooking up a new Project. ForceKit, a LWC/SLDS framework for developing Lightning Web Components. Think "Salesforce Bootstrap". #salesforce
