Do you feel that hard drives and USBs aren’t keeping pace with your organisation’s "AI-first dynamic cloud-based SaaS B2B" technology strategy?
Today, I present a novel (and potentially ill-advised) alternative: a file-system that uses Slack Emojis as a storage device. We'll dive into how file systems work, how you can use Python to turn Slack Emojis into infinite free file storage, and maybe find out if this was secretly a terrible idea all along.
File Systems are an integral part of how modern computers work. They organise the bits and bytes on your hard drives and USB drives, turning them into files and folders that your computer can read.
Sometimes it’s easy for them to feel a bit like arcane magic, though. We rarely get an opportunity to dive into how they work or how they’re built. That’s why I decided to build a file system that stores files not in bits and bytes on a hard drive, but in emojis on Slack.
Together, we’ll dive into how file systems turn your files and folders into bits and bytes, how they organise and keep track of everything, how we can apply that to Slack emojis, and how the limitations of Slack emojis can spark creative (and frankly, pretty cool) solutions to old problems.
This talk is for you, whether you’re an expert on file systems, scratching your head at why you’d store file systems in Slack emojis, or you’ve never thought about how they work before. Come along to learn about how file systems actually store and organise your data, and how we can use Python to build them in new and silly ways.
By day, Ashley is a Frontend Software Engineer (yes, the JavaScript kind) at Atlassian, building the text-editing framework that powers apps like Confluence and Jira.
By night (and on weekends), Ashley is… mostly sleepy. Sometimes she also has silly ideas for side projects, though. She loves solving tricky technical problems to turn “I think this might technically work?” into weird technology experiments and sharing them with other people.
