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Refactoring Back End Engineering Hiring at Slack(slack.engineering)
52 points by felixrieseberg 8y ago|53 comments
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by felixrieseberg 8y ago
Yes, we’re actively working on that.
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by felixrieseberg 8y ago
Hi, Felix from Slack's Electron team here. Slack co-maintains Electron together with GitHub, employing multiple core maintainers full-time, contracting those who can't join us full-time. We've also just hosted (and paid for)
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by felixrieseberg 8y ago
Currently not on the roadmap – for what it's worth, the majority of apps perform their Electron updates at different times, so you'd still have the same number of binaries and files as you do today.
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Show HN: Windows 95 in an Electron App(github.com)
213 points by felixrieseberg 8y ago|110 comments
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by felixrieseberg 8y ago
Hey! Author here. I got to admit, that’s an angle I did not fully consider - but adding theming should be fairly easy, given that our editor already has built-in themes. I’ll put that on my personal to-do list (unless someone sends us a Pr
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Show HN: Electron Fiddle(medium.com)
3 points by felixrieseberg 8y ago|0 comments
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by felixrieseberg 8y ago
This looks really, really impressive. I'd love to connect this to Electron apps, too. As someone who wants Windows users to have a decent time using and developing with Node.js, it warms my heart to see developers of modules to at leas
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Defeating Electron(medium.com)
33 points by felixrieseberg 8y ago|3 comments
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by felixrieseberg 9y ago
> The following was shared as a twitter thread. Here’s the medium version. I'm wondering if this could have been a much more accessible piece of writing if it wasn't 44 tweets copied-and-pasted together.
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by felixrieseberg 9y ago
Slack desktop engineer here: We're not discontinuing anything – we're just offering more options.
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by felixrieseberg 9y ago
The author is likely not confused, given that Axel turned "knowing JavaScript" into a fairly decent career. (Besides: Doesn't telling people that they aren't real programmers get really boring quickly? Shouldn't we
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by felixrieseberg 9y ago
If you're on Windows and want to give this thing a test drive, use `npm-windows-upgrade`: Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -Scope CurrentUser -Force npm i -g npm-windows-upgrade npm-windows-upgrade --npm-version latest
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by felixrieseberg 9y ago
At least on the West Coast it seems pretty common - considering that companies here also pay for your health insurance, it seems like an overall decent idea.
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by felixrieseberg 10y ago
It's probably worth pointing out that Slack _also_ contains a ton of native code, written in C++ (with a bit of C++/CX and Objective-C). All of us on our small team have an extensive background in typed languages, including giant
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by felixrieseberg 10y ago
Thanks for the update, good to know!
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by felixrieseberg 10y ago
Sorry, I just chose the image because TypeScript's official hero image is a Seattle skyline. I hope I didn't disappoint - I love Seattle though, I can't wait to be back this year for //build.
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by felixrieseberg 10y ago
I personally haven't spent too much time looking at Dart, but I find it pretty suspicious that TypeScript is on Google's list of approved languages for projects, while Dart is interestingly missing . I'm sure there's ups
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by felixrieseberg 10y ago
I'll be careful not to tell anyone not to use Flow - we're using many of Facebook's tools and we're grateful for their gifts to the community. If Flow works for people, that's great! That said, back when we got star
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by felixrieseberg 10y ago
Hey! Author here - let me know if you have any questions about anything in that post (or, you know, anything else... like, erm, Electron).
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TypeScript at Slack: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Trust the Compiler(slack.engineering)
5 points by felixrieseberg 10y ago|0 comments
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by felixrieseberg 10y ago
Neat! To avoid being sucked into anything too big, you might want to check out the "good first" issues on the Desktop App ( https://github.com/tryghost/ghost-desktop/issues?q=is%3Aopen... ) or the beginner
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by felixrieseberg 10y ago
Hi, I'm one of the volunteer core devs on Ghost The company is a non-profit that supports journalism and professional publishing. Everything is open-sourced. I'm leading the work on the Desktop App ( https://github.com&#
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by felixrieseberg 10y ago
That's an excellent question! The auto updater requires your packages to be code-signed, meaning that someone would have to compromise the endpoint _and_ also be able to sign code with your root-trusted certificate.
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by felixrieseberg 10y ago
Excellent effort! However, it also introduces a _major_ security hole: The Electron Desktop App simply loads an index.html which points at remote JavaScript. That's crazy dangerous - if that endpoint gets compromised, nothing keeps the
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by felixrieseberg 10y ago
I used to be the project lead for Electron at Microsoft (now building the Slack Desktop App) and I'm super happy to say that there's been a lot of great work around interacting with native Windows APIs from Electron: https:/
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by felixrieseberg 10y ago
You can now publish win32 binaries to the Windows Store, which run in a virtualized environment. They get the same rights as normal win32 exes because they _are_ exes.
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by felixrieseberg 10y ago
I worked at Microsoft during the development of this - and I'm so very happy it finally shipped. We started working on this about a year ago after chatting with npm, git, Ember, and various other command line tools that were substantia
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by felixrieseberg 10y ago
I cannot understand how a company like Apple, known and proven to build exceptional hardware, won't let me use my iPhone headset with the new MacBook.
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by felixrieseberg 10y ago
This is similar to electron-compile, built by my fellow desktop app coders over at Slack. https://github.com/electron/electron-compile

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