Someone made a program to make it look like you’re typing on Slack when someone else is

Slack: productivity and collaboration tool, or platform for procrastination, in-jokes and GIFs? We couldn’t possibly say here at Packt.

For most of us, the only thing worse than wasting time on Slack is looking like you’re never on Slack at all. While you’d like to tell people it’s because you’re busy, you can see your colleagues eyeing you with suspicion, convinced that if you’re not procrastinating in the same manner they are, you really can’t be doing anything at all.

Luckily, someone has invented a tool for dealing with exactly this problem. 

Take a bow Will Leinweber (@leinweber) – you have made something to make us look busy. Or, at the very least thoughtful and ready to contribute to the channel chat at any moment.

Will has put the project on GitHub. You can find it here.

The only disappointment with the tool is that Will didn’t include the additional feature that  “asks other people what their typing whenever they’re typing.” The results were pretty hilarious, and likely too distracting for anyone to do any work at all…

Needless to say, there was a pretty strong reaction to Will’s program.

Truly, software is being used for incredible things in 2018. These are the projects we need if we’re to survive a hostile and unforgiving future, forever typing into the abyss at each other, and doomed to search out reaction GIFs to every rude email and hostile expression someone sends your way.

What other novelty software projects have you seen recently? Let us know in the comments, and we’ll do some investigative work*

*Have a look on Twitter.

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