I built a Slack client because :wave: was lagging

Slack was having a bad day on my machine. Typing :wave: was taking two seconds to autocomplete. Two seconds to autocomplete an emoji! The fan was spinning. The whole app felt sluggish. I have Slack running pretty much nonstop. Most people do. And the whole time I was watching that emoji dropdown crawl I kept thinking.. man, this is just text. Terminals are great at text. The tools I rely on every…