Delightful Reveal #56
A bi-weekly update on all things Flagrant
By
Joyce Hu
June 17, 2024
“In the event of an emergency, I can crochet.”
What we did:
- Quick Wins are live on our website!
- Listened to an interview with a satisfied client to pick out some choice testimonial quotes
- Started drafting a strategy-focused case study for our work with GroupCollect
- Road-tripped to Atlanta by way of Washington, DC.
- Responded to questions about our proposal
- Attended Agile In The Ether
- Attended a researcher check-in for the Comparative Interview Study
- Learned about mime types and got to work with them in a client project
- Held a pre-sales retrospective to inform future sales process
- Helping an external connection market themselves as a resource for Wisconsin communities on human trafficking prevention and support
- Updates to the website to better represent our services, short engagement possibilities with clients, and some of the methods we draw on in our process
- Held a kickoff meeting with a new client. We’re building them a design library to support growth, allowing them to expand what they offer their customers.
- Made strides forward on the Training Tracker upgrade and redesign project; launching Wednesday, June 19th.
- Refurbished and deployed changes to the QR Code assignment scanner, The billing page, The turbo table filtering, and the user Invitation features
- Created concept mood boards for a rebrand
- Began working on designing a Capabilities Statement for Training Tracker
- Recreated the Major Donor Program for Ruby Central in PowerPoint
- Started the process of registering Flagrant with SAM.gov
- Attended a WNB.rb book club
- Announced New Madison+ Ruby Meetups:
What we’re reading:
- Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
- Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler
- Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford
- The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
- Technofeudalism by Yanis Varoufakis
- Crack-up Capitalism by Quinn Slodobian
- Solidarity by Astra Taylor and Leah Hunt-Hendrix
- “Generative AI Is Not Going To Build Your Engineering Team For You” by Charity Majors
- ”Ensuring Reliable Science from Platform A/B Test Archives - an Update to the Upworthy Archive” by J. Nathan Matias
- “You Can’t See Me” Eva Björg Ægisdóttir
What we’re playing:
- Diablo 4
- Baldur’s Gate 3
- Stardew Valley
- UNO
- Connect Four
What we’re watching:
- Inside Out 2
- Bridgerton S3
- Amanda Seales’ I Be Knowin’
- Counterpart S2
- Scavenger’s Reign S1
- The Boys S4
- Secrets of the Octopus- Nat Geo
- Halo 2
- Godzilla Minus One
- Invincible S2
- The Acolyte
- Naomi Clement’s “Handle It: A Deep Dive Into Making Handles” workshop
What we’re listening to:
- Pink Skies - Zach Bryan
- Beyond All Repair season 2
- Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me
- About You by 1975
- Mulmung Playlist by TAEYONG
- Self Love by Metro Boomin, Coi Leray
- Nineteen by Charly Bliss
- Blue Bayou by Roy Orbison
- The new Billie Eilish album, particularly Billie Eilish - BIRDS OF A FEATHER (BILLIE BY FINNEAS) +1
- Skyrim soundtrack, Amelie soundtrack, Olafur Arnalds (for writing)
What we’re interested in:
- Fly casting methods for spring runoff, cool bugs trout love
- Playing Vecna: Eve of Ruin for 24 hours over the course of a weekend
- Building a Pretty Good House
- Chips mugs
What we’re struggling with:
- The strange (at times) frailty of the human body +2
- The paddling part of stand up paddling
- Sleep ( this feels like a permanent part of this list? ) +1
- Learning Coda and all its fanciness
- Learning a new code base and working with a new suite of tools
- Dog with an infected butt
- Setting up a new desk/computer peripherals
What we’re buying:
- Calcium carbonate, bentonite, and other dry chemistry for the clay studio
- Gold luster for a luster firing (making pottery gold and shiny) soon
- Ergonomic wrist rests
- DPR Ian tickets
- The Cactus Blossoms tickets
- A hammock
- Tickets to a local performance of The Importance of Being Earnest
- Giant puzzle table thing that Glynnis shared for my dad on dad’s day
- A Kryptonite lock for little sister’s new electric Rad bike
- A new Canon lens
- Antibiotics for dog with infected butt
What we’re celebrating:
- The gays 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
- Drag bingo
- Joined my local gym’s summer ‘Climbing League’.
- Birthing Class!
- Being able to have an extra day of playing volleyball
- Setting up a new desk/computer peripherals
If you’re looking for a team to help you discover the right thing to build and help you build it, get in touch.