A Message from Signal's New President
Signal Blog6 Sept 2022
On September 12 I’ll be stepping into the role of Signal’s President, a new position created in collaboration with Signal’s leadership.
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top 19%Technology Deep Dive: Building a Faster ORAM Layer for Enclaves
Signal Blog19 Aug 2022
Private doesn’t mean lonely. Signal’s mission is to help you connect with people in a secure way. This means that you need to know which of your contacts are also on Signal.
Signal Your Support
Signal Blog16 May 2022
People around the world count on Signal for things as simple as sharing moments of celebration like a graduation or as high stakes as coordinating a protest. We’ve got your back no matter what!
Swift by Sundell turns five years old today! Here’s what’s next for the website and the podcast | Swift by Sundell
Swift by Sundell5 May 2022
This article has been archived, as it was published several years ago, so some of its information might now be outdated. For more recent articles, please visit the main article feed.
Beyond the last message: Designing for all information in Slack • Slack Design
Slack Designby lisa14 Apr 2022
Slack is primarily designed for team communication in channels. Channels are where work happens: It’s where teams exchange ideas, get feedback, and share files.
Marco.org
Marco.orgby Marco Arment25 Mar 2022
Overcast’s latest update (2022.2) brings the largest redesign in its nearly-eight-year history, plus many of the most frequently requested features and lots of under-the-hood improvements.
Measuring seniority - Waldeinsamkeit
Waldeinsamkeitby Unknown21 Feb 2022
Sometimes I think about what "senior" means when I read this word in job titles. There are some obvious implied connotations and others not so obvious.
New year, new CEO
Signal Blog10 Jan 2022
It’s a new year, and I’ve decided it’s a good time to replace myself as the CEO of Signal. I have now been working on Signal for almost a decade.
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.
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.