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Published in Revue

·Dec 19, 2017

How to Keep Up with the Best of the Web

Every day, I tell more than 47,000 web people the tech-related links they should spend their precious time on. Not individually, obviously — via a newsletter called Versioning. The idea is to give people a one-stop shop for the day’s best web and tech news, useful links and helpful tutorials. …

Productivity

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How to Keep Up with the Best of the Web
How to Keep Up with the Best of the Web
Productivity

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Published in SitePoint

·Sep 4, 2015

How SitePoint Uses Slack

This post was originally published on SitePoint, FYI. Everyone in the entire world loves Slack, obviously. The increasingly ubiquitous chat app has taken over the business and media world, with organizations as diverse as eBay, Sony, Yelp, the New York Times and SitePoint (who?) hooked into the plaid-patterned platform. Slack…

Slack

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How SitePoint Uses Slack
How SitePoint Uses Slack
Slack

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Published in SitePoint

·Aug 21, 2015

Slacketty Slack: Lots of Talk Back

Out of Context Lines from SitePoint’s Slack Channels The Three Stages of Engagement Announcements 1. Elation Kyle Vermeulen: CONGRATS!!! 💒 💜 Kat Bak: Cutest. 💜💜💜 Angela Molina: 💍 💜 💯 (edited) Ophelie Lechat: Heyyyyyyyy! Congratulations! boltron: Congrats! Simon Julian: Congratulations! Daphne: Congrats! 💍 2. Joking Adam Roberts: SO WHEN ARE YOU GETTING MARRIED HAVE YOU SET A DATE YET YOU SHOULD SET A DATE AND THEN TELL ME

Slack

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Slacketty Slack: Lots of Talk Back
Slacketty Slack: Lots of Talk Back
Slack

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Published in SitePoint

·Aug 14, 2015

Team Talk: Out of Context Lines from SitePoint’s Slack

Bonus: Contains Actual Web Development Discussion Kelle really showed our front-end codebase who was boss James Björkman: Shout out to Kelle for this amazing accomplishment Ophelie Lechat: Holy hell Kelle Kelle Connolly: 🚀 Kelle Connolly: Tis on its way into the wild Kat Bak: Kelle is the ultimate gangster. Simon Julian: Nice work Kel Ophelie Lechat: In Trello: “Rebuild old page templates — ‘delete more…

Sitepoint

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Team Talk: Out of Context Lines from SitePoint’s Slack
Team Talk: Out of Context Lines from SitePoint’s Slack
Sitepoint

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Published in SitePoint

·Jul 31, 2015

Slack in Business: Out of Context Lines from SitePoint’s Slack

More of em! A lucrative idea is born Adam Roberts: http://lrnapp.com/ Kat Bak: Well. Tom Trumble: That looks pretty cool, Adam. It just made me think of how Duolingo uses students’ work to help translate the web and how reCaptcha helps to scan words in books that computers couldn’t read. Surely there’s space for a similar thing in…

Sitepoint

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Slack in Business: Out of Context Lines from SitePoint’s Slack
Slack in Business: Out of Context Lines from SitePoint’s Slack
Sitepoint

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Published in SitePoint

·Jul 24, 2015

Slackers: Out of Context

Yet more amusing chat conversations from SitePoint’s Slack, taken out of context and edited to be funnier/grammatically correct A Rare Touch of Class Classical music is played Tan Le: Classical music helps me to write PHP poems at the moment Jude Aakjaer: Few things amp me up more than some great classical music Jude Aakjaer: 1812 overture and beethovens 9th are awesome tracks to get the party jumping

Sitepoint

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Slackers: Out of Context
Slackers: Out of Context
Sitepoint

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Published in SitePoint

·Jul 16, 2015

Chat Boy Slim: More Out of Context Lines from SitePoint’s Slack

A few of the best things virtually said all week We work opposite a school: Kat Bak: IS IT JUST ME OR ARE THESE DAMN CHILDREN ALWAYS PLAYING Kat Bak: WHEN IS CLASS TIME Kat Bak: GET OFF MY LAWN. The coffee machine broke: Kat Bak: Is the coffee machine working yet… Daphne Rouw: It’s still sick Kat Bak: I may have to take annual leave, in that case……………………….. …

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Chat Boy Slim: More Out of Context Lines from SitePoint’s Slack
Chat Boy Slim: More Out of Context Lines from SitePoint’s Slack

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Published in SitePoint

·Jul 10, 2015

Out of Context Slack Conversations: The Version Birth Edition

We just made a thing! In honor of that fact, here’s some behind-the-scenes chatter from the #versioning Slack channel — #metrics Adam Roberts: We’ve already had our first Rickroll and our first “spam”, feels like we’re really hitting our stride. Product development: one step forward, two steps back Kyle Vermeulen: By popular demand: You can now log out. </hotelcalifornia> Kat Bak: How do I dismiss my 26 notifications…

Versioning

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Out of Context Slack Conversations: The Version Birth Edition
Out of Context Slack Conversations: The Version Birth Edition
Versioning

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Published in SitePoint

·Jul 3, 2015

The Slack Album (You Know, Like Jay Z’s The Black Album?)

Funny Stuff from SitePoint’s Slack Kat Bak: My phone just autocorrected internet to Internet Kat Bak: Ophelie wins. Jasmine Elias: I don’t know, mine autocorrects ebook to eBook :confused: Kelle Connolly: Mine autocorrects “tram” to “team” so it’s clearly not to be trusted Kat Bak: I very rarely want to talk about ducks Adam Roberts…

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The Slack Album (You Know, Like Jay Z’s The Black Album?)
The Slack Album (You Know, Like Jay Z’s The Black Album?)

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Published in SitePoint

·Jun 26, 2015

Slack on Both Sides

Out of context lines from SitePoint’s Slack The Odd Couple Jude Aakjaer: Jude and Bolte are at work today Tom Trumble: I’d love if you two lived together. Tan Le: The brothers are in da houze Tom Trumble: There’s a reality TV show in watching a share house full of tech-heads Tom Trumble: The lounge set up would be incredible …

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Slack on Both Sides
Slack on Both Sides

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