Craig Labenz

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Grapevine - django email

Okapi - python game framework

Dominion Kingdoms - deck-building site

War of Kings Resource Manager - a way to speed up my favorite board game

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Hello! I'm Craig, and I'm a Michigan-based software developer for Zapier.com. In my free time I like to over-engineer email solutions for django, under-engineer Kivy tools, and play lots and lots of ultimate frisbee.

  • High-Signal GitHub Notifications to Slack

    SATURDAY FEBRUARY 27 2016 zapier

    Everyday, I wake up feeling snowed in by emails, and I work at a company (Zapier), that makes every effort to reduce email congestion by favoring other forms of remote communication. Still, the emails are too many, which is why I set out to both filter the signal from the noise, and then send that signal straight to Slack.

    Signal, over here. Noise, over there.

    I use the following Gmail filters to delineate emails I care about from... the rest. I know that 9 out of 10 relevant emails are from GitHub, so I focus there.

    First, I created two labels, GitHub, and GitHub (Mentions).

    Then, I added these three filters to route all email from GitHub:


    Gmail Labels

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