@Kyle StetzBuilding Dark Mode on Desktop More than just CSS, dark mode represents a new way of thinking about color and styles at Slack.
@Yingyu Sun@Mike DemmerHow Slack Built Shared Channels Building shared channels challenged Slack’s fundamental assumption that the workspace is the atomic unit of partitioning customer data.
@Garrett Miller@Zack SultanThe Gradual Design System: How We Built Slack Kit A group of engineers, designers, and writers began to centralize and standardize components. We named it Slack Kit.
@Ryan Slama@Matt DzwonczykInterning on Slack’s Product Security Team Detecting vulnerabilities in Javascript/npm packages with daily scans
@Jim WhimpeyService Workers at Slack: Our Quest for Faster Boot Times and Offline Support Using a CDN-cached HTML file, a persisted Redux store, and a Service Worker, we reduced Slack boot time by more than 50%.
@Stephen SowolePanModal: Better support for thumb accessibility on Slack mobile What does it mean to design for thumbs?
@Richard CrowleyDisasterpiece Theater: Slack’s process for approachable Chaos Engineering Slack is a large and complex piece of software that’s been added to and changed many times over the last five years. We added features, grew to 10,000…
@Mark Christian@Johnny RodgersWhen a rewrite isn’t: rebuilding Slack on the desktop A new version of Slack is rolling out for our desktop customers, built from the ground up to be faster, more efficient, and easier to work on.