Tag: slack

  • My family uses Slack. It’s pretty interesting.

    My family uses Slack. It’s pretty interesting.

    Everything changed for the better when we started using slack at work. We’ve made countless custom integrations; doorbells, intercoms, travel cards, reddit, lunch menues, git hooks, server monitoring, you name it – we haz it. My family has been using Google Calendar for a few years. Me and my wife used to think that we…

  • Hooking up the voice intercom to Slack

    Hooking up the voice intercom to Slack

    The intercom from the street to our office was connected to an old GSM phone, and letting people in required us to pick up the phone and press the digit 5. Simple, sure, but it doesn’t feel like 2015. I had also been meaning to try the Twilio API for some time. Task: Connect the…

  • How to make a wind chime door bell

    How to make a wind chime door bell

    Our doorbell was already connected to the Internet via an Arduino, but we couldn’t stand the sound it made. We needed a warmer sound, a sound that didn’t make us want to kill the doorbell users (mostly clients). Step 1: Buy an old Wind Chime, preferably with a coconut base (because awesome). Step 2: Pick up a…

  • Let Slack nag you that it’s time to return that commuter pass

    Another week, and yet another Slack integration here at Earth People. This time we’ve added an integration to the public transport system here in Stockholm. At Earth People we like to use public transportation when going to meetings with clients. That’s why we have bought a couple of commuter passes that we can use whenever we…

  • Let Slack tell you what songs are currently playing in the office

    At Earth People, there’s always music in the air (and the birds sing a pretty song). Most of the stuff we play is fairly unknown to most of us, and in many cases only played once, ever. To get rid of all the “Hey what’s this song”-chatter or Slack, I made a litte script which we…

  • Slack integrations so far; deploys, doorbells, reddit and lunch menus

    On Earth People, we recently fell in love with Slack (Oh yes that’s an affiliate link that will give us both 100 dollar credit). It got us off Skype (which we didn’t really love anyway) and on to something that felt fresh. What really got us hooked was all the integrations we could do. Here’s…