Delightful Reveal #51

I’m drinking coffee for two now.

What we did:

• Rethinking, reworking, re-imagining a user flow to create better UX for first time users and allowing for users to start from scratch when there is no data.
• Talked about the requirements for an API linking two systems we’re working on.
• Wrapped up Accessibility work for a client.
• Started working on RailsConf Detroit banners and signage.
• Created RailsConf Detroit T-shirts and other swag.
• Created some stickers for our social media.
• Finding our way with breadcrumbs everywhere! On pages, in titles and even in urls!
• Held a personal sticky note game to chat about personal growth and career goals.
• Made slideshow presentation for Training Tracker.
• Reviewed and prioritized findings to share from user research. Created and scheduled findings presentation.
• Reworked a navigation menu to be more consistent across brand design. 

What we’re reading:

• Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson (Goodreads)
• “Seventy-Two Letters”, by Ted Chiang (Wikipedia)
• “Wifi only works when it’s raining” (Blog) 
• The Idiot by Elif Batuman (Goodreads)
• A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers (Goodreads)
• Men without Women by Haruki Murakami (Goodreads)
• The Arsonists’ City by Hala Alyan (Goodreads)
• The State of HTTP clients, or why you should use httpx by HoneyryderChuck
• Demon Copperfield by Barbara Kingsolver (Audible) 
• The Broken Earth Series by N.K. Jemisin (Goodreads) 
• Inciting Joy by Ross Gay (Goodreads)
• Notes on Dwarkesh Patel’s Podcast with Sholto Douglas and Trenton Bricken (Substack) 
• Suicide Mission - What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane (Blog)

What we’re watching:

• Gardeners’ World
• Monkey Man
• Tokyo Vice
• Shōgun (+1)
• Game Changer, Sam Reich’s comedy panel game
• The new Star Trek Discovery season
• The Great Canadian Pottery Throwdown
• Slow Horses S1
• Very Important People (trailer)
• Finished Succession (finally)
• TopChef (this season is in Wisconsin)
• Chappel Roan: Tiny Desk Concert (Youtube)
• Lil Nas X: Long live Montero (HBO)
• Doc Martin (iMDB)
• Taskmaster S17

What we’re listening to:

• Beyoncé’s new album
• Telegraph Ave. by Childish Gambino
• Cowboy Song - by Thin Lizzy
• The Wasia Project
• Hymn of Acxiom by Vienna Teng
• Wildflower & Barley by Hozier
• Nectar by The Boyz
• icantfeelanything by NCT DREAM
• My Eyes Adored You by Frankie Valli
• Are You Going With Me? by Pat Metheny

What we’re interested in:

• Understanding Pac-Man Ghost Behavior - GameInternals
• Gloomstalker/Assassin builds in Baldur’s Gate 3
• The Pac-Man Dossier
• 3D Art with Adobe illustrator
• Wifi that only works when its raining
• The emails that wouldn’t go more than 500 miles
• Hexagon cutting jig
• xScope - tool for measuring, aligning and inspecting on-screen graphics and layouts 
• A sentence for JB to read.

What we’re struggling with:

• Allergies (+1)
• Stress Management (+1)
• Baby growth spurts
• Snowstorms in April +1
• Waking up and wondering why my neck is hurting after sitting all day like a shrimp
• Quartz inversion and dunting in kiln firings

What we’re buying:

• Flight tickets to the Flagrant Summit
• Yarn to make a cat couch and baby blankets
• Monkey Man tickets
• Branded magnets and charms for a freelance project
• More frames
• Ben Eater’s 6502 computer kit
• Stuff for the new apartment
• Wizard Glaze’s Gloop + some nichrome wire for making more ceramic earrings
• Eclipse-watching glasses

What we’re celebrating:

• Getting moving and shipping labor squared away
• Jacob attending meetings
• Massage recommendations that connect you to a delightful person and talented muscle whisperer
• Adoption picking up on a recently launched product
• Strawberry flavored candy
• Doge & bunny cursors in Figma
• A dog that’s stopped eating poop

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