Delightful Reveal #58
A bi-weekly update on all things Flagrant
By
Joyce Hu
July 15, 2024
“A matchbook is technically a book, no take backs!” - overheard at Flagrant
What we did:
- Designed a fabulous sign up flow for an AI product for developers.
- Prepared multiple print assets for Madison+ Ruby and talked to a bunch of printers about materials and deadlines
- Met with a new client to go over their needs for a new logo and then began brainstorming some ideas based on our conversation.
- Dug deeply into Multiple Database Support in Rails to help with a migration away from active_record_slave as part of Rails 6+ upgrade
- Created a Module concern designed to be used with prepend to wrap ActiveJob perform methods as a block.
- Send Training Tracker designs to print
- Working on design and content strategy on a marketing website for the Improv Effect
- Hosted a Madison+ Ruby meetup in the Cisco Meraki offices in Manhattan reminding people that they like getting together in-person with like minded people.
- Changed a CSV import process from a slow (with large files) direct passthrough to a direct file upload (not even using a webhook!)
- Created themes for a client’s UI library using Figma’s Variable Modes after defining a color system for them
What we’re reading:
- Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
- Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
- The House in The Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
- Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
- Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know by Adam M. Grant
- Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet by Hannah Ritchie
- Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock by Jenny Odell
What we’re playing:
- Little Alchemy 2
- Hogwarts Legacy
- Pocket City 2
- Trash (card game)
- Flamecraft
What we’re watching:
- Tour de France
- Taskmaster NZ Season 2 (again)
- Below Deck
- Ghostbusters (1984)
- The Boyz: Season 4 +1
- The Acolyte (begrudgingly)
- Total Forgiveness
- Game Changers
- Doc Martin (Season 8)
- 3 Body Problem
- Exploding Kittens
- 18th century embroidery is NO JOKE. (Trust me, we tried it.)
- Garak and Bashir meet, credit to @wellsbering on twitter
What we’re listening to:
- Off Menu — Nick Mohammed
- On the Road Again by Willie Nelson
- Strong Songs — “Just What I Needed”, “Everybody Wants to Rule the World”
- The Pivot Podcast
- Fela Kuti
- Folsom Prison Blues by Johnny Cash
- 99% Invisible Breakdown of The Power Broker, a veritable tome of a biography on Robert Moses
- Strange Disciple - Nation of Language
- Boom Boom Base by Riize
- Say by Keshi
- The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
-
Songs in Simlish
What we’re interested in:
- Hiking California’s Trinity Alps +1
- Retired women’s walking groups for my mom. Mom needs new friends and is painfully shy.
- Finding more time to go kayaking
- Fern propagation
- Art Fair on the Square is this weekend in Madison, WI
- Blackpink’s Lisa Launches Her Own Management Company, LLOUD
What we’re struggling with:
- Mosquitos. Wisconsin’s unofficial state bird
- Mold in the basement
- Termites in the foyer
- Humidity
- React (+1)
- Cutting my dog’s nails.
- Fly casting in wind
- 0.08 mbps internet speed
- Remembering to breathe
What we’re buying:
- Resin molds
- A cute little patch display
- So much bug spray
- a great honkin’ huge dehumidifier
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Even more books on the Wiener Werkstätte:
- A cooler bag that attaches to a bike for those long days at the Lake
What we’re celebrating:
- Only a few more weeks until Madison+ Ruby!!!
- Went to Moulin Rouge at the Overture Center with my mother and bff, sang songs, enjoyed the amazing costumes and great set design.
- Making new connections in NYC
- Michael Moura’s aggregated list of Ruby on Rails jobs
- An imminent visit to the Pacific Northwest
- Settling in nicely and making connections in the new community
- Oliver turning 6 years old! 🎂🐶🎉
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