Many voices. One Flagrant.
When I first started as a developer, I vaguely understood what a designer actually did. Now, I can’t imagine building without them. That shift didn’t happen overnight and I don’t think I’m alone in that journey. I think there is a large number of people who still undervalue and diminish the...
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August 21, 2025
This is not an intuitive thing to understand unless you’re already deep into TailwindCSS. Or, if you are me. So, if you somehow stumbled onto this post while trying to figure things out — welcome to the confusion. I hope I can help make it a little clearer. What I Was Trying to Do I needed
January 30, 2025
“Libre Bodoni, holy bologna!” - overheard at Flagrant What we did: Refined UI for a A/B testing flow Trying to learn how ghost works +1 Implementing XO Ruby homepage updates and cleaning up crufty css Document Flagrant website design system work Recorded an episode of
January 30, 2025
“The algorithm is a bad boyfriend, DUMP HIM!” - overheard at Flagrant What we did: Learned about Magic Link and how to implement that Re-learned about GDPR compliance Researching animation tools to aid in design of an app that helps teach children to read Wired up a
January 30, 2025
“We didn’t shart the database (It was always burning, since the world’s been turning)” - overheard at Flagrant What we did: Designed marketing collateral for construction inclusion services to distribute to their potential new buyers Finished writing a blog post for the Flagrant
November 18, 2024
“Ah yes, how can I get children to lick the screen while learning to read” - overheard at Flagrant What we did: Got VIM working with COC (Conquer Of Completion) to help with developing on a React/Typescript front end. Wrestled with pagination and filtering within a bridgetown
July 25, 2024
Hey there. Yossef here, and I have a story about pagination for you. We all know about pagination, right? Instead of showing a huge list of all 30,293 results at once, you get just a slice of 20 of those results (or 50, or 100, or whatever), and you can move through these slices, “page” by
May 13, 2024
Community Action Teams (CATs) At a small consultancy, sometimes it’s challenging to prioritize internal tasks amid the daily hum of activity for our clients’ projects. We’ve written in the past about experiments, and we also have internal projects, but we realized neither of those are a great
October 26, 2023
Problem: Our current implementation relies on session storage to manage the open “tabs” a user has, and this is leading to improper functioning of the link_to anchor. To provide some context, we offer three tab options that users can click on to display distinct sets of information. Here is
February 28, 2022
I recently had the pleasure of refactoring a view file for a client project. The pleasure part of that sentence is a lie and definitely laced with sarcasm. I grew more grey hairs and thought of throwing my computer out the window several times. via GIPHY So why was it so damn difficult to
February 15, 2022
What a sad situation. A lonely child record has a foreign key that points to a parent record of a primary key that no longer exists. Sob How could we, as software developers, let this happen? Imagine we have three tables: dogs, walkers, and a join table that is called dog_walkers. Great,
November 12, 2021
When tasked with figuring out why unexpected behavior was happening in our app, I followed the bread crumb trail to this block of code: def trial_days Arel::Nodes::Multiplication.new( Arel::Nodes::NamedFunction.new('COALESCE',[arel_table[:trial_days], TRIAL_DAYS]),
December 8, 2020
My brain is a gosh darn prodigy when remembering stuff like: Chewing gum jingles. Harry Potter spells. Pretty much any SpongeBob episode. Seriously, I can recite word for word (and what I think is pitch for pitch) the striped sweater song. But test specs? Which are a critical part of my
