Stephen Cresswell
Targets can be a double-edged sword. When poorly conceived they encourage behaviours that prioritise metrics over real success. For instance, setting a goal like “close 100 tickets this quarter” might push a team to focus on easy wins rather than meaningful work. However, I once encountered a...
Sufian Rhazi
Reflecting on a career in tech
gslin
I want to stream my logs on my home RPi3b to a Slack channel for my vacation side project. With some searches I found an article including a simple shell script to implement this function: "Stream Any Log File to Slack Using curl". However it's a little tricky as the script replaces " to ' as...
Ashish Mishra
Slack is one of the most popular messaging tools. In this article, we will connect our free slack account with Gmail using Slash commands and Google Scripts to pull our unread emails. Many times we face situations where Gmail is blocked because of security in some workplaces and machines. Using...
Chris Krycho
Don’t forget the lessons of physical offices when thinking about chat. Assumed audience: Anyone considering social dynamics in team chat, but especially leaders with authority to shape team norms. It’s common in some circles to treat private rooms or DM-heavy Slack teams as a sign and more...
Alain M. Lafon
What this post is not about This is not a post complaining about how bad Slack/Skype/YourFavoriteMessanger™ is compared to IRC and that we should continue using IRC instead of them. I'm a pragmatic person and that battle is lost. Having said that, those other tools have some interesting...
Michi
During my time at mbr I wrote a couple of Slack Apps which I included into the internal company channels.I’m quite happy with the way they turned out and how actively they were used. They all contributed to the great company atmosphere — either in functional or entertaining ways.Weekly interview...
Alain M. Lafon
If you recently upgraded the Slack Desktop App on Debian and now are wondering what happened to your automatic HiDPI recognition: Don't worry any further. It's a little peculiar, since this regression doesn't seem to be well documented on the net. However, the solution is easy. Slack on the...