Delightful Reveal #49

“No apparent blockers other than the concept of time.”

What we did:

• Work! +1
• Traveled to Miami for PartsBase Expo 2024 in support of Training Tracker.
• Redesigned a comments pill so that people can discover it more easily based on client feedback.
• Got feedback from an early adopter on the challenges they’re facing with the product and turned around a few quick changes.
• Met with a stakeholder to give them a preview of some usability tests we’re planning to do with our users.
• Planned a round of usability tests with prospective customers of our new product.
• Found an amazingly bad interaction between our special select component (VirtualSelect) and being in a modal.
• Started eliminating all tooltips from a client project.
• Designed the UI for admin users to upload logos.
• Demoed designs and reviewed upcoming milestones and held internal team meetings to align on project priorities.
• Figured out the right way to deal with keypress events to customize a text field so it formats currency and then realized the right way was to use the input event instead.
• Disabled all inputs in a form by adding a custom option to the form builder that propagates to all child inputs.
• Developed draft roadmaps for planning.
• Published an article on DevOps Digest: 4 Tips for Maximizing Teams in Small Software Development Shops by Jim.

What we’re reading:

• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
• Modalz Modalz Modalz
• The Arsonist’s City by Hala Alyan
• All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries #1) by Martha Wells
• Portable Magic: A History Of Books And Their Readers By Emma Smith (just finished!)
• Your Tooltips are Bogus
• Developing Apps with GPT-4 and Chat GPT Olivier Caelen, Marie-Alice Blete
• Tom Lake by Anne Patchett

What we’re watching:

• Roman Holiday
• DUNC 1 & DUNC 2 (+1 on DUNC 1)
• The Great Canadian Pottery Throwdown (S1)
• Avatar The Last Airbender (2024)
• Gardeners’ World
• CONCACAF Women’s Gold Cup
• Wat
• SOTU
• Tokyo Vice (S2)
• Shogun (2024)

What we’re listening to:

• Wasia Project - impossible (Live Session)
• Navy Blue by Wooseok
• Shopper by IU ft. DPR Ian
• lavender blossom by Salty Licorice
• Motion Sickness by Pheobe Bridgers
• The Covenant of Water written and read by Abraham Verghese

What we’re interested in:

• Figma multi-edit
• Chipmunks
• Urchin Tracking Module (UTM) Parameters that you see on query strings
• Exclusion constraints in Postgres
• The Micropedia of Microaggressions – the first encyclopedia of microaggressions.

What we’re struggling with:

• Body
• Every day is Monday
• Landscaping

What we’re buying:

• Silicone molds of tiny pizzas for epoxy resin casting
• iPad charger
• Rechargeable hand-warmer battery packs
• Nespresso pods because coffee
• Dune Table Top RPG (TTRPG)
• Cheap iPhone SE

What we’re celebrating:

• Real users using real products that are out there in the world.
• Getting quality time with my parents.
• Tickets to a 90s cover band night.
• Spring is coming!!
• Corgi butts

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