Building Slack
Stories of building Slack — the company, the product, the business, and the culture — told by two employees who were around for the entire journey.
By Ali Rayl, Johnny Rodgers.
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The death of Glitch, the birth of Slack
[This post is about the day that Glitch failed, and how that failure created the opportunity to make Slack. We're sharing it here (out of chronological order) to mark 12 years since the famous pivot.]“We …
By Johnny Rodgers, 2,780 words
WATCHING BLAKE'S 7
A Blake's 7 blog.
By Tim Dickinson.
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Illuminating Blake’s 7 – The lamps of a sci-fi classic.
For those who have dipped into the blog posts within this website, you will have noticed that I am full of admiration for the visual aesthetic of Blake’s 7 – both in terms of the …
By Tim Dickinson, 1,440 words
The PROG Mind
Delve Deeper.
By Jason Spencer.
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Ylisia – Underneath
Ylisia debuts with bright melodies and memorable songs.
By The Prog Mind, 11 words
Maggie Appleton
Maggie's digital garden filled with visual essays on programming, design, and anthropology.
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idiot king
A personal weblog based in Baltimore, Maryland, featuring things like family, photography, design, old trucks, and other random topics.
By Bill Dugan.
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Open Tabs, Revisited
I seem to be collecting a lot of open tabs lately. Here are some highlights: The Defector 2024 Hater’s Guide to the Williams-Sonoma Catalog is live! I look forward to this as much as candy …
TechLeader.pro
Software engineering leadership.
By John Collins.
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Conducting annual reviews (TLP 2024w47)
It's that time of year again, when I need to conduct many annual performance reviews over the coming weeks.
Fabien Sanglard's Website
This is my personal website, you can find here most of the code and ideas I came up with during my extra-professional time.
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IndieCentralMusic - News
The latest news from what’s happening in the indie music world from tour announcements, festival line up reveals and much more!
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Dead Pony share Batman inspired video for single ‘Everything Burns’
Glasgow’s finest punk rockers Dead Pony have released music video for new single ‘Everything Burns’. Following on from the four-piece’s critically acclaimed debut album ‘Ignore This’, they are wasting no time with new music. Captioned …
By Alex Taylor-Pearson, 181 words
[S][J][P]
Surplus Jouissance Projects.
By Neil Gorman.
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AI & Kids
This paragraph from Peter Coy's essay in the (paywalled) New York Times opinion section is just great. Computer scientists are continually surprised by the creativity displayed by new generations of A.I. Consider that lying is …
By Neil Gorman, 317 words
The Second Button
A men's style blog here to help you see what menswear enthusiasts love about clothing.
By Daniel Hakimi.
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101 Gifts You Should Buy For Me This Holiday Season
In past seasons, I've written holiday gift guides focused on what you might buy other people. These are always tricky; you should usually not buy other people clothes, since you probably don't know what fits …
By Daniel Hakimi, 5,303 words
The Figure In Question
Action Figure Reviews By Ethan Wilson.
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#3758: Commander Gree
COMMANDER GREE STAR WARS: REVENGE OF THE SITH (HASBRO) “On the planet of Kashyyyk, Commander Gree serves Jedi Master Yoda and helps the Wookiees fight the invading Separatists. When the secret Order 66 is issued, …
By Ethan Wilson, 566 words
Lambda Latitudinarians
Nathan Contino's personal website and blog, Lambda Latitudinarians.
By Nate Contino.
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Not a Bicyclist's Guide to Bicycles
All bicyclists ride bikes. But not all bike riders are bicyclists. I'm a bicycle enthusiast: someone who spends enough time riding and repairing bikes to know a thing or two about them. But I'm not …
By Nathan Contino (ncontino[at]lambdalatitudinarians[dot]org), 2,990 words
A Just Recompense
I'm Writing and I Can't Shut Up.
By Karen Carlson.
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BASS 2024: Jim Shepard, “Privilege” from Ploughshares #157
When I’m not writing, teaching, shooting baskets, or bothering one of my beagles, I tend to be reading something arcane in my ongoing and mostly quixotic attempt to turn myself into a more interesting person. …
By Karen Carlson, 1,283 words
Chips and Cheese – The Devil is in the Details
Technology news, reviews, insights and leaks with a real technical twist, and the occasional rant or two...
By George Cozma et al.
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Skymont in Desktop Form: Atom Unleashed
Skymont is Intel's newest E-Core architecture. E-Cores trace their lineage to low power and low performance Atom cores of long ago. But E-Cores have become an integral part of Intel's high performance desktop strategy, letting …
By Chester Lam, 2,660 words
Haki Benita
The writings of Haki Benita.
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How to Get or Create in PostgreSQL
"Get or create" is a very common operation for syncing data in the database, but implementing it correctly may be trickier than you may expect. If you ever had to implement it in a real …
By Haki Benita, 7,607 words