Delightful Reveal #44

“I don’t know why I have the ‘yeehaws’ this morning and I’m sorry dude.”

What we did:

• Finished a blog post on styling disabled buttons with Hotwire
• Learned about using nip.io to allow me to use my mobile device while testing on my local environment
• Wrestling with inline styling
• Experimented with STI (single-table inheritance) to support flexible multi-tenancy settings
• Deep dive into all the ways prices are represented in our system so we can create consistent visual language
• Set up a new class of user (consumer, rather than provider) for a system
• Worked on Brewing up goodwill
• Paired with Glynnis to work on Madison+ Ruby responsiveness and styling
• Good conversations with our client’s client and starting to build a relationship with them to participate in the feedback process
• Wrapped up designs for a huge new feature
• Redesigned RailsConf 2024 website
• Met with CAT-Hiring to dig deeper into defining and revising our hiring process
• Researched ways to improve our hiring process in response to CAT-Hiring needs
• Creates social media assets for RailsConf 
• Met with Jen to talk about Training Tracker projects
• Created floor decals for a client to use at an upcoming expo
• Started working on custom swag for the same customer
• Enhanced read-only feature to allow attachment viewing
• Attended the Madison College Portfolio show and saw a bunch of old classmates and instructors
• Hired a front-end developer, SaVance Ford
• Paired on a new client project, began working on components of the design
• Onboarded Kelly to support an existing project

What we’re reading:

• Roman Stories by Jhumpia Lahiri 
• The Kithamer Trilogy by Daniel Abraham
• Surface Detail by Iain M. Banks
• Babel by R.F. Kuang
• The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love by bell hooks
• The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi
• Incoming: 20 new CSS viewport units: ‘svh’, ‘lvh’, ‘dvh’, ‘svw’, ‘lvw’, ‘dvw’, … 
• A Beautiful Proof: Why the Limit of sin(x)/x as x Approaches 0 is 1?
• Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Legend by Marie Lu

What we’re watching:

• Slow Horses (S3)
• Monarch: Legacy of Monsters
• Sense & Sensibility 
• Ugliest House in America
• At the Moment
• Insecure
• A Knight’s Tale
• Moonlighting
• Her
• Make Some Noise
• Voleflix - a Netflix for public domain movies

What we’re listening to:

• Feather (feat. Cise Starr & Akin from CYNE) by Nujabes
• One Year: 1990 Episode 1 - Pizzastroika (Pizza Hut in Soviet Union)
• En El Olvido by Omar Apollo
• 4 Letters by B.I
• Laufey: Tiny Desk Concert
• Channel Orange by Frank Ocean
• Bump Bump by Woodz
• 90’s Grunge hits

What we’re interested in:

• Sorcerer/Paladin multiclass (“Sorcadin”)
• rdfind
• Children’s book writing and illustration
• Tailwind CSS
• Did some Zig exercises

What we’re struggling with:

• Holiday obligations
• Holy crap it’s Christmastime already
• Mortality, due to a friend’s passing
• Body image
• Pad thai
• CSS

What we’re buying:

• A 2015 Toyota Prius C  
• Alligator on a pencil (no link :(  )
• Tickets to a comedy show tonight
• Beans
• Diarrhea coffee mug as a christmas gift for a family member
• A bunch of Unmatched sets and storage for them

What we’re celebrating:

• Passing a kidney stone
• Celebrating a friend’s birthday with dinner and arcade games
• Birthday cake
• Increased my NAS storage space, about 3x
• My friend’s event this weekend
• Seeing old friends and getting pumped about design
• Sleeved all the Unmatched cards

If you’re looking for a team to help you discover the right thing to build and help you build it, get in touch.