Delightful Reveal #60

A bi-weekly update on all things Flagrant

“The number of ducks I want to see is MAX_INT” - overheard at Flagrant

Presented at DevFest WI, part of Wisconsin’s largest tech and entrepreneurship event: The Forward Festival about “Nothing New Under the Sun,” exploring the recurring cycles of human behavior and advancements in tech.
Recorded an episode of Dead Code podcast, hosted by Jared Norman
Drafted a blog post on how to tell if you might need Product Management
Learned about how to allow a user to upload and attach an avatar
Designed a flow for generating QR codes
Drafted a blog entry about design tokens and color systems based on some work we did recently with a client
Wrote a technical guide for troubleshooting problems with Figma’s variable modes feature (which maybe wasn’t ready for general release…So. Much. Mystery. And. Troubleshooting.)
Designed a t-shirt for RubyConf 2024
Began working on branding for an internal project, Yeeot
Final touches in implementation of a marketing website for Improv Effect
Made it simple to add metadata to a JWT (JSON [JavaScript Object Notation] Web Token) so it can be passed to various webhooks
Used Jumpstart to build a quick AI driven document discussion app

The Social Animal by David Brooks
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Float Up, Sing Down by Laird Hunt
Slow Noodles by Chantha Nguon
Started The Four Pillar series. Apparently I bought the third book but it didn’t say it was the third book and the other two books were not next to this one so I accidentally started the last book in this series 🫠
Listened to The Yiddish Policeman’s Union by Michael Chabon
Green Frog by Gina Chung

Hiccups
Existential dread, pessimism and negative mental attitudes
Sports Injuries
Starting crochet
Working alone on a project
A basement being gutted
Writing—it takes so long and it’s hard to put words together coherently
Sharing secrets in different deployment environments
Salads made of words +1
How loud Barry’s classes are
The unreal amount of time it takes to wash & dry a single down sleeping bag that includes 17 hours listening to tennis balls ping pong around the inside of the dryer

Rolling knife sharpener
Tuxedo cat Legos
Baked lemon ricotta
Conversational Spanish classes
A hanging pot/pan organizer
A puzzle! +1
A few nights in a hotel in Madison for an upcoming trip
A ceramics workshop by Studio B-Du
Tickets to a Western-themed fundraiser to help cover expenses for a friend’s breast cancer recovery
The Future is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarashinha
An in-person drawing class
Tri-tip
More yarn (again)

Jen Remsik and Jim Remsik delivering separate talks at DevFest WI, a positive, inclusive conference for all technologists.
Jen & Jim’s 25th anniversary
Jaxons arm is healing up well and he only needs a week and a half more in a cast. Really cool to see how his arm is growing so much bone in the X-ray after just 4ish weeks
a mold-free basement
gutters being installed
The death of an above-range microwave presenting an opportunity for a ducted range hood and a cool tile backsplash to make my nerdy ceramicist heart go pitter patter
Got to see Hozier and Ateez in concert
The DNC nominations