Dear writer of Claude Code flavour text, I see you, and I like what you're doing.

Second part of our post on Going Public out now. Did you know Stewart ate a chipotle burrito for dinner the day we went public? 🌯 buildingslack.com/going-public...

Two easy rules for better holiday gifts for kids: No screens No batteries Just things to read, make, build, eat, play with, or experiences to enjoy with others.

Real good one today xkcd.com/3172/

Is there a name for this? - Go to cancel a subscription and get a discount to keep it. - Return an item and get offered bonus $ if you receive the refund as a gift card. I understand the psychology and the business reasoning. But what's this called? PS: Go get a 92% reduction in your NYTimes rate

One Battle After Another. Really enjoyed the filmmaking and performances. Still puzzling out the message. Stellar work from Chase Infiniti amidst the performances of the veteran actors.

Couple quick Sunday projects in the shop. Walnut, maple and wenge cutting board. Maple burl candle holder with live edge.

Made boeuf bourguignon today. Or as I like to think of it, wine soup. 🍷

Aurora borealis at 50deg north

New post up on Building Slack: part one of the story of taking Slack public. buildingslack.com/going-public...

Great first set from Radiohead’s European tour www.setlist.fm/setlist/radi...

I loved this film. Perfect Days (2023 - d. Wim Wenders)

Did @greatdismal.bsky.social come up with the term “one shot” in its modern form?

New post up on Building Slack: You asked: What is the right way to use Slack? buildingslack.com/you-asked-wh...

Excellent thinking music open.spotify.com/album/51CQQ3...

The Smashing Machine is very good. Dwayne Johnson's performance is incredible. A lot of pathos in his portrayal of addiction and the victories and failures of a fighter.

The extent to which Liquid Glass makes everything blurry and harder to read is astonishing. What a step backward

Listen to our interview with Cal Henderson on SoundCloud: on.soundcloud.com/UlXA2dCl3c1S... Transcript at buildingslack.com/in/

I’d almost forgotten how great this album is open.spotify.com/album/7GfERe...

Why does MacOS take about 10 seconds for downloaded files to show in Finder now? It's distressing.

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

Having fun collecting questions from readers for our upcoming interview with Cal Henderson, Slack co-founder and CTO. Reply or DM: what should we ask Cal? buildingslack.com/email/98e99a...

These Lind flat-water surfboards are wild lind.surf

Hack the planet

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

This is so crucial. When people think about these land comparisons, they don't think about the entire sprawling infrastructure behind FF.

I made it this far without learning about The Chicken and The Pig en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chi...

Just downloaded the Facebook iOS app for the first time in a decade so I could put something on marketplace. Had to answer/dismiss more than 15 prompts and screens before it would show me the app, and then it went directly into a viral Reels carousel. What a piece of shit

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge? It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.

This show is so good. Everything I love about sci-fi, immaculately executed.

Really enjoyed The Legend of Ochi

In what security paradigm does it make sense to prefer something I know to something I have (watch) and something I am (fingerprint)? If it’s actually meant to be a security measure, why not make it a 2 or 3 factor auth requirement? It also knows my phone is nearby that could be used as a factor.

Made a bowl from this beautiful piece of maple. Extremely lovely grain

New post up on Building Slack: The reliability crisis In late 2018 our internal operations came to a halt as we kept causing outages to the service. We stopped deploying entirely and spent a month digging out of the hole. buildingslack.com/the-reliabil...

Made a salad bowl from arbutus wood today

New post up on Building Slack: buildingslack.com/turning-slac... This is about building Shared Channels, and the challenges of scaling our approach to building Slack as we grew.

Congrats to all the Figma folks today! www.figma.com/blog/ipo-pri...

The main difference between the twilight zone and a regular zone is all the weird stuff that goes on in there

Most of the internet used to be like this. This is actually the default, it took companies enclosing the internet and adding weird, soul-killing incentives to make people behave the way they do now. In a way, there is truly nothing special about Wikipedia except that it survived longer.

@aptshadow.bsky.social I’m about 3/4 through Children of Ruin. Last night I had an extended nightmare based around fear of being infected by the parasite/bacteria thing So, thanks I guess!

Grasslands National Park

Really clear explanation of the economics behind the new Slate EV platform sherwood.news/tech/slate-a...

I’m so happy Bill gets to see this made. Can’t wait

I haven’t kept up on the latest developments in biotech. Pretty wild stuff today and on the near term horizon Great long-form discussion (as always) from Dwarkesh interviewing George Church podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/d...

TIL about “mirror life” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Today on Building Slack, something a little different. I wrote about my friend and mentor Eric Costello, Slack co-founder, brilliant engineer, and all around one of the best people you'll ever meet. I count myself very lucky I got to spend years learning from him. buildingslack.com/eric/

it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time