At ClickView we use Slack a lot but we also drink a lot of tea. So we wrote our own Slack app to distribute who makes tea for the team.

You can start a ‘tea time’ using the /teatime tea command, which will notifiy everyone else that you want tea.

Once everyone has joined, run /teatime end TeaTime Bot will randomly pick someone to make the team tea, give them the the order including tea preference.

Sometimes you lose badly…

Or if you’re an intern you need to learn how everyone takes their tea.

TeaTime is open source so check it out!

We spent the Australia Day weekend with some friends in the Hunter Valley, which was oddly quiet for a public holiday weekend.

It was a lovely weekend and we bought some great wine.

Picks from Pigg’s Peake:

• 2016 house of bricks shiraz
• Pigs Blood
• 2017 pressed ham tempranillo

and from Scarborough we bought:

• Pinot Noir Rosé

It was a great weekend however, I could have done without the 43°C heat!

Bistro Molines

Bistro Molines

Welcome to my new blog.

I think I have finally found something that fits my blogging style a little more. Unfortunately I don’t have the time to write long form, well researched articles but I would still like to write shorter posts about things I notice and thoughts I have on tech, business, product, recipes and hip-hop.

I have always tried to consistently write for a blog, but due to the very limited amount of time I have, I’ve never been able to commit.

I recently listened to Seth Godin talk on Tim Ferris’ show and it reminded me of his blogging style, which is a short thought each day.

This is much more achievable for me, fits better with my lifestyle and is more realistic for the time I am able to commit to it.

Let’s see how we go!

JP