Ali Rayl

Today's the 10 year anniversary since we launched @SlackHQ to the world. Seems as good a time as any to look back and try to make sense of it all. Not every day a failed game company turns into a massively successful enterprise software company, after all.

Some personal news: After 11 years, I’m leaving Slack. Sometimes you think you’re just going to do QA for a cute video game you like and life has other surprises in store! That is what happened here. What an amazing, 11-year surprise it’s been. Love you, @SlackHQ. 😘

@CaseyNewton “Please, sir, behold this line of code, which does bitwise math on the output of a regex inside a ternary hook as a condition in a switch statement, it is my finest work to date”

If you’re wondering what a “salient line of code is” so is everyone who just got this email

I’m reading this email and the part where he goes, “please email me a bullet point summary of what your code commits have achieved in the past ~6 months, along with up to 10 screenshots of the most salient lines of code” … like WHAT

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