Making Slack Feel Like Slack
Our plans for deduplicating client code and improving edge caching
Calls: Is it you or is it me?
Slack Calls are now in beta, on Mac, Windows, iOS, Android and Chrome. If you haven’t given it a try yet, please do (and let us know how it goes)! Our…
A Walkthrough Guide to Finding an Engineering Job at Slack
Interviews, eh? Horrid, stressful ordeals that fly by in a sweaty mess and then linger long in the memory. Or, at least, that’s the traditional model.…
Using ES2015 with Electron — introducing electron-compile
As part of writing the Slack Desktop application, we created a new library / set of tools that will save other developers writing Electron application…
The Joy of Internal Tools
Developers working on the same project often have wildly different workflows, based on how they like to work and the tools they are familiar with. Des…
Distributed Security Alerting
How does a company know when it has been hacked? Let’s list some ways, in order of best case to worst case:
The company’s employees notice someth…
How About Code Reviews?
Last time, we talked about empathy and what goes into good pull requests. This time, let’s talk about the other side of the equation: what makes a goo…
On Empathy & Pull Requests
At Slack, we believe that empathy is humanity's most important superpower. For our engineering team, that starts when we sit down at our keyboards.
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