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We launched Slack to the world on February 12th, 2014. Thirteen months after starting work, nine months after releasing our early alpha version, and six months after starting our preview release. We crossed the finish …

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 …

Charlotte Wessels releases a solid album with expanded production.

Reflections on two years of working at Elicit and why it's time to leave

An article on a completely different website brought me to this one, and I could not have been happier last night. This is a reconstruction of the history of the Millennium Falcon, from the earliest …

For every promoter you will have several detractors so you must be ready to deal with them. Compliment your enemies to disarm or confuse them.

Strapped with a powerful wall of shoegaze-y guitars, bouncy percussion and irresistible vocal harmonies, trio Our Girl break the emotional dam with new single ‘What You Told Me’. The latest taken from the band’s much-anticipated …

From The Lives and Legends of Jacques Lacan by Catherine Clément:Lacan was […] a skillful rhetorician capable of translating the terminology of psychoanalysis into a language, other than “Freud.” (p. 44)This statement is a good …

People don't respect sleep. They think of it as "wasted time," repeating stupid phrases like "you can sleep when you're dead." People drown themselves in caffeine and make themselves work through the night with some …

CASEY JONES — ONE-MAN WEAPONS RACK TURTLES OF GRAYSKULL (MATTEL) Toy crossovers are becoming a pretty common thing, and, honestly, when it comes to that sort of thing, TMNT has pretty much always been the …

I like riding bicycles. The Tanglefoot Moonshiner is a very, very weird bike. It's also an excellent bike. It might just be the perfect bicycle for Northern New England in 2024. moonSHINin' When we lived …

The world’s birds gathered for their conference And said: ‘Our constitution makes no sense. All nations in the world require a king; How is it we alone have no such thing? Only a kingdom can …

Hot Chips isn’t just a conference where companies give in-depth presentations on the architectures behind high performance chips. It’s also a place to talk to the engineers who worked on those products on the sidelines, …

"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 …