Recording date: 2019-04-18

John Papa @John_Papa

Ward Bell @WardBell

Dan Wahlin @DanWahlin

Natalie Qabazard @Natqab

Resources:

• Slack
• Taking PHP Seriously at Slack
• Salt Fat Acid Heat
• The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science

Someone to follow

• Mike Peiffer Newsletter
• Stack Overflow 2019 Survey
• Anna Pickard

Timejumps

• 01:25 Guest introduction
• 05:40 Topic introduction
• 12:30 What's the second step when introducing people to new tech?
• 15:04 Did they have good unit tests before?
• 26:23 Are you compelled to fix bad code?
• 28:48 Sponsor: IdeaBlade
• 29:54 How can Typescript help with refactoring?
• 33:28 What do people use for an editor at Slack?
• 37:12 Are there specific APIs within Slack?
• 40:02 How easy is GraphQL to use?
• 44:08 Sponsor: DevIntersection
• 45:00 What drew you to working at Slack?
• 48:18 Someone to follow