Authoring Markdown externally and pasting the 'pretty' output into Slack (on Linux)
How to use `xclip` to copy the rendered representation of Markdown into a rich-text form into Slack.https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.jvt.me/posts/2025/04/19/slack-external-markdown/
For anyone else having issues with their headsets muting/unmuting like crazy on Desktop:
Go to your chat client settings, then to voice, and disable "gain control", it's being misinterpreted as mute/unmute by many headsets.
From the Arkchives:
LOVE IN THE FIFTH DIMENSION
( "BOB" IS A SEX GOD !!!)
#Datadog combined structured metadata from its incident management app with #Slack messages to create an LLM-driven functionality assisting engineers in composing incident postmortems.
Datadog believes LLMs won't fully replace human insight (yet!).
Learn more via #InfoQ 
https://bit.ly/4jvpqBK
Anybody else seeing #Slack badge hundreds of messages (mine said 233 just now), when in reality there are just 1 or 2 new messages? Seems to have started in the last day or so.
Here are four tools for creating, supporting, and enriching communities of practice: peer conferences, listservs, Slack, and Zoom
Baby ducks with mama duck and a coot. #slack
(apologies for the noise. Seawall repair nearby.)
#discord IS LITERALLY THE PROBLEM!
It's worse than any #IRC, #Mumble or even the old #TeamSpeak & #Skype for that matter.
It combines the disadvantages of #Forum, #paywalled #documentation, #chat and #voicechat with 0 redeeming qualities (unlike #Zulip & Mumble & #XMPP+#OMEMO) it's just an #InformationBlackhole!
I'm shure fecking #dread has better moderation and I'd rather use #MicrosoftTeams + #Slack cuz those at least have proper #moderation tools.
Case in point: I'd rather #SelfHost all my comms infrastructure than to ever use something like Discord or any other #GDPR-violating SaaS that is just enshittification.
I'd rather recommend people to instead choose a tool that does everything but horrible to go with multiple smaller & good tools
Check @alternativeto and @european_alternatives for options.
Today has been a good day for discovering #OpenSource resources.
First, a fedizen turned me on to @radicle and I happen to be looking into various options for migrating off #GitHub . The resistance to #llm scraping is a bonus.
Thanks to #radicle , I got reacquainted with @zulip . It's not yet in my stable of community apps, and I have been hoping for an excuse to use it more regularly.
So far #zulip exceeds expectations as an upgrade from #Slack , IMHO.
For some reason, an hour after posting this the keyboard shortcut stopped working. I used Ctrl+/ to bring up the #Slack keyboard shortcuts and it lists "Jump to unread messages" as Ctrl+J, but that doesn't work either 
Luckily, you can still use Ctrl+K (or Ctrl+G) to search for "Unreads" to access it
Chillennial Productivity Protip for Slack users: Annoy/impress your coworkers; mass-adding emojis to posts by holding down shift when you click on an emoji - the menu stays open, allowing you to add as many emoji as you can (22, it turns out)
you're welcome. let's see those emoji.
TIL: If you don't see the "Unreads" at the top of your #Slack sidebar, use Ctrl+Shift+A to access it. It disappears once you navigate away from it though :(
Not sure why it stays sticky for some workspaces, but disappears in others. Maybe it's a paid pro feature?
