How to build large-scale end-to-end encrypted group video calls
Signal Blog15 Dec 2021
Signal released end-to-end encrypted group calls a year ago, and since then we’ve scaled from support for 5 participants all the way to 40.
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top 12%Some latency measurement pitfalls
Dan Luu6 Dec 2021
This is a pseudo-transcript (actual words modified to be more readable than a 100% faithful transcription) of a short lightning talk I did at Twitter a year or two ago, on pitfalls of how we use...
Become a Signal Sustainer
Signal Blog1 Dec 2021
Signal has no data to sell, no advertisers to sell it to, and no shareholders to benefit from such a sale.
Swift actors: How do they work, and what kinds of problems do they solve? | Swift by Sundell
Swift by Sundell24 Nov 2021
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Culture matters
Dan Luu8 Nov 2021
Three major tools that companies have to influence behavior are incentives, process, and culture.
The story of Slack Clips: Prototyping the path to audio and video messages • Slack Design
Slack Designby mlivingstone29 Sept 2021
We recently announced the rollout of audio and video clips in Slack, which allow anyone on Slack’s paid plans to send audio, video, and screen share messages.
A Content Model Is Not a Design System
A List Apartby by Mike Wills23 Sept 2021
Do you remember when having a great website was enough? Now, people are getting answers from Siri, Google search snippets, and mobile apps, not just our websites.
Embrace ephemerality with default disappearing messages
Signal Blog10 Aug 2021
As the norms for how people connect have changed, much of the communication that once took place through the medium of coffee shops, bars, and parks now takes place through the medium of digital...
A photographer’s view on alt text
Erik Kroes - Accessibility Consultantby Erik Kroes4 Aug 2021
A photographer’s view on alt text Posted on Images are visual communication. Consider what you’re trying to communicate before you do. Contents What is alt text?
Distill Hiatus
Distillby Editorial Team2 Jul 2021
Over the past five years, Distill has supported authors in publishing artifacts that push beyond the traditional expectations of scientific papers.
Learn How to Light.
Strobistby noreply@blogger.com (David Hobby)1 Jul 2021
So Long (for Now!) and Thank You. In 2006 I started a lighting blog while working full-time as a staffer at The Baltimore Sun.
Setting Trends With Maps
ARKives23 May 2021
Setting Trends With Maps Table of contents: Maps are not just the big pictures in the hands of surveyors or sailors or tourists anymore. They are now a tool for information exchange.
Your website is history
Erik Kroes - Accessibility Consultantby Erik Kroes5 Apr 2021
Your website is history Posted on Everything you put on your website is old. Every website is an archive. The web is a collective history. A tweet by Stephen Hay got me thinking about this subject.
Browsers and the Web
Web Browser Engineering6 Mar 2021
I—this is Chris speaking—have known the webBroadly defined, the web is the interlinked network (“web”) of web pages on the internet.
Talks And Events
ARKives1 Jan 2021
Talks And Events In News | As a Guest writer 2026 - 24 January 2026 - Why Building Community in India needs a Local First Approach, lessons from OSM Kerala, a session and event co chair organiser...
Formatting Text
Web Browser Engineering11 Dec 2020
In the last chapter, our browser created a graphical window and drew a grid of characters to it. That’s OK for Chinese, but English text features characters of different widths grouped into words...
Leveraging a Manager Weekly Newsletter for Team Communication
SoundCloud Backstage Blog25 Nov 2020
I started my journey as an Engineering Manager at SoundCloud close to a year ago. This came after working as a Software Engineer for more than a decade, most of which I spent as an iOS Engineer.
5 Ways Gig Economy Workers Can Save for Retirement
Wise Breadby Emily Guy Birken16 Nov 2020
We are in the midst of a major economic shift. While workers in the past could expect to keep a stable job with a traditional employer for decades, workers of today have found they must either...
My Criteria for Reviewing Papers
Eric Jangby noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)27 Sept 2020
Xiaoyi Yin (尹肖贻) has kindly translated this post into Chinese (中文) Accept-or-reject decisions for the NeurIPS 2020 conference are out, with 9454 submissions and 1900 accepted papers (20% acceptance...
Marco.org
Marco.orgby Marco Arment11 Sept 2020
A summary of today’s changes to 3.1.3 Other Purchase Methods: Your app must use Apple’s in-app-purchase (IAP) system for all purchases made in the app.