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New week, new opportunities. What delightful work will you get done this week? What we did: Wrestled some more with Turbo. Finally getting it to call uncle by giving it a turbo frame to post to instead of _top Polishing up designs and creating master components so that everything...
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April 3, 2023
New week, new opportunities. What delightful work will you get done this week? What we did: Wrestled some more with Turbo. Finally getting it to call uncle by giving it a turbo frame to post to instead of _top Polishing up designs and creating master components so that everything
March 27, 2023
This week we’re celebrating, on top of everything else, winning work with our client’s customer with their approval. What we did: Drafted a presentation for the company Fixed some decade-old code that was never re-thought when the front-end it supports went from being a web form to
March 13, 2023
There will always be fur in the seats behind us. It will cause unexpected wear on our hybrid car; whether it is worth it is up to us. - Friedrich Nietzsche What we did: Wrestled with Turbo (see: https://github.com/hotwired/turbo/issues/893 and
February 13, 2023
What’s our secret sauce? Never assume every shark has the same fabric preferences; we need user research! What we did: Performed practice interviews with the Hotel 2022 cohort from LEARN Academy. Kicked off another sprint with a client and built up our backlog of prioritized
January 23, 2023
What we did Took Monday off in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Held a management summit. Reviewed the state of the organization, and project-related updates. Discussed billing policies and code of conduct Drafted letters welcoming Amy and Jack to the team (intro posts
January 17, 2023
Hello! This is the 1st edition of the “Weekly ‘ship”, a summary of what happened in our sphere last week, and a preview of what may come. What we did Yossef Mendelssohn shared an alternative to “moving fast and breaking things” in his post Moving and Working. A Tiger
January 4, 2023
Recently Jen and I were listening to Mike Birbiglia’s Working It Out (Apple Podcasts, Spotify), a podcast hosted by the actor/comedian/storyteller wherein he invites guests to work out new material with him. In episode #86 Putting On Your Art Eyes Mike collaborates with Illustrator and Graphic
December 29, 2022
This pairs extremely well with Dad’s Carrot Cake Recipe. Ingredients 8 oz Cream Cheese 1 stick Butter (Unsalted) 1 lb Confectioners (Powdered) Sugar 1 teaspoon Vanilla Directions Soften Cream Cheese and Butter by letting them sit out for ~an hour
December 28, 2022
There’s nothing new under the sun and my Dad was not a recipe writer or, honestly, someone all that interested in baking or cooking. He was just a man who would get it into his head that there was a particular thing he’d want to make and that would become a driving force for a while. For a time
December 26, 2022
On Christmas eve we celebrated the holiday with my side of the family with a potluck, white elephant gift exchange, decorations, and lots of family. Christmas has always been a time when my Mom went all-in to make sure the kids in her orbit had a good time. It was sometimes a point of contention
December 20, 2022
As I write this I’m sitting in a coffeehouse at a communal table with a German professional who apologetically caught up with her family back home over a video call and a student taking notes for her marketing degree. Milwaukee’s Stone Creek Coffee house, a Certified B-Corp has a lot going for
October 21, 2022
Jen and I took a trip to California to attend two conferences here in October. RailsSaaS took place in Hollywood October 6-7 and her Growth Accelerator Intensive is scheduled for October 23-24th. In the meantime, we decided to take a week and co-work with our colleague Joyce Hu based in the Los
June 23, 2022
How many times has a project leader told you to “think different” while carving out no time, structure or community to allow it to happen? Workplaces often only reactively innovate in times of churn, when knee deep in the thick of a problem that needs a pivot, fast. Did you fix it
March 31, 2022
Hey, how ya doin? Whatcha been up to over the last 2 years which totally count as dog years? This is a soul-check from your friends at Flagrant, who have been doing a lot of growing over the last 30 months. We started Flagrant in the thick of WTF times. And though it’s been hard,
December 20, 2021
We interview based on how we work. Here is a post describing what someone can expect when they apply with Flagrant. There is a juicy sweet-spot between soulless corporate coding and writing software for hipster apps. Flagrant is a lifestyle career – you’ll do work that matters
