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In Everybody is a Drawer I discussed how storytelling relies on framing to help define successes and discover capabilities. If I ask most people to picture someone with a disability, there’s likely an image with someone in a wheelchair. It’s the consensus sign (literally) that someone has lost an...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...