Apex Multiline Strings and Interpolation in Summer '26
Summer '26 gives Apex readable multiline strings and String.template() interpolation. They improve payloads, emails and tests, but do not make dynamic SOQL safe.
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State Managers for LWC: Be Excited, Keep Your Components Raw
Summer '26 gives LWC a native state layer. Use it to coordinate complex pages without coupling every reusable component to one state shape.
How to Use Release Manager's Dev Channel Without Blowing Your Foot Off
Summer '26 puts preview features behind Release Manager's Dev channel. Use it to learn early without making preview code a hidden production dependency.
Live Preview and the New LWC Dev Loop in Summer '26
Summer '26 makes Single Component Live Preview and the VS Code extension generally available for LWC, shortening the edit, preview and fix loop.
Virtualized LWC Lists for 100,000 Alarms
Summer '26 dynamic lists point to the right pattern for huge LWC datasets: render the viewport, page the data and keep 100,000 rows out of the DOM.
Elastic Async Limits for Queueable and Future Jobs
Summer '26 adds elastic async limits for Queueable and future jobs. The real opportunity is to shed low-priority work before the extra headroom runs out.
Blob.toPdf() Rendering Changes in Summer '26
Blob.toPdf() keeps the same Apex API, but Summer '26 moves rendering to the Visualforce PDF service, which can change fonts, wrapping and page breaks.
Migrating WITH SECURITY_ENFORCED to WITH USER_MODE
A focused migration guide for replacing WITH SECURITY_ENFORCED with WITH USER_MODE before moving Apex classes to API 67.0.
Secure-by-default Apex in Summer '26
Summer '26 changes Apex defaults in API 67.0: database operations move to user mode, classes enforce sharing by default and elevated access becomes explicit.
Why TurboQuant Actually Matters
TurboQuant matters because it attacks KV-cache pressure, one of the physical costs of serving long contexts to many users.
Lossless JSON With JSON.parse Source Text Access
JSON.parse source text access and JSON.rawJSON preserve exact numeric literals instead of silently rounding them through Number.
TypeScript's Go Future
I like the move toward a Go-based TypeScript because it targets the boring pain that shows up in real projects: slow tooling.
Complex Template Expressions (Beta)
Complex template expressions in LWC can remove tiny bits of boilerplate, but they are best kept to simple math and checks.
Typed Config API Inference Edge Case
A TypeScript inference edge case where removing an apparently redundant parameter annotation makes metadata precision collapse.
GraphQL Mutations in LWC
GraphQL mutations in API 66.0+ let LWCs create, update and delete UI API-supported records without Apex for standard CRUD paths.
Record-Type Picklists in Apex
Apex can now fetch all picklist values for a record type directly with ConnectApi.RecordUi.getPicklistValuesByRecordType in API 66.0.
RunRelevantTests (Beta)
RunRelevantTests reduces Apex deployment time by running only tests that are relevant to the components in your deployment payload.
Apex Cursors
I have been using Apex cursors since they became generally available, and this is where they help in day-to-day Salesforce work.
Using Temporal
Temporal replaces JavaScript's overloaded Date model with explicit types for instants, civil time, time zones and calendar dates.
It's Alive
A quick note to say the blog is live and I will be posting older notes here over time.