Delightful Reveal #61

A bi-weekly update on all things Flagrant

“Sorry, there are squirrels everywhere.” - overheard at Flagrant

Shipped and deployed to production the improveffect.com!!
Created a guidebook for how to use Decap CMS for the client so they don’t fall into CMS potholes
Hacked together css overrides for the out-of- the-box UI on the Decap CMS experience – our version of the configuration makes the rough edges rougher to use for the end user
Create workflow charts for imports and email log functionality for Training Tracker.
Shipped out Madison+ Ruby t-shirts to remote team members.
Addressed and mailed out 40+ postcards to Wisconsin companies on Inc’s 5000 List
A product plan for a couple of small prototypes
Submitted a PR to Jumpstart’s docs to add more detail on the color system we designed—blog entry coming soon!
Ordered nametags for Training Tracker
Designed a t-shirt for Rocky Mountain Ruby
Finalized Yeeot branding and logo
Began writing a blog about the t-shirt designing process for RubyConf 2024 (dusting off those writing skillz)
Wrote analysis to explain the responses to one question in Planet Argon’s Ruby Community Survey
Synced with the rest of the RubyConf Program Committee to confirm all accepted speakers have confirmed and get them published onto the website
Met with Amanda Perino (Rails Foundation), Rebecca Miller-Webster (GitHub), and Roy Tomeij (App Signal) to coordinate our roles at Rails World
Cleaned up the code for a simple AI driven app that answers questions about a series of documents.

Commonwealth by Anne Patchett
The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to the Wastelands by Sarah Brooks
Sara Winokur “Double Blind: The Icelandic Manuscript Murders”
Rebecca Murphy, Otto Hilska “Build: The Elements of an Effective Software Organization”
When We Cease To Understand The World by Benjamin Lebatut
A Cage Went in Search of a Bird: Ten Kafkaesque Stories by Charlie Kaufman, Keith Ridgway, Elif Batuman, Leone Ross, Helen Oyeyemi, Naomi Alderman, Yiyun Li, Tommy Orange, Ali Smith, Joshua Cohen with Becca Rothfeld

Morning alarm not going off and waking up 3 minutes before start of the work day :
Shoulder pain +1
Rib pain
Styled Components, how using this abstracts out classnames to untargetable objects and then needing to hack over “Not Our Code™” thru super awful feeling css trickery
Headaches (probably related to torrential rain all week?)
Skin issues ie Rosacea
No hot water for a little bit
Dogs eating flip flops
Not using vim
The vim extension for VSCode not being consistent
Word salads +1
Blood sugar
Remembering how to set up a Sticky Note Game
Heat waves

New flip flops
Tickets to the night tour of Alcatraz
Tickets to a Pirate themed cocktail party where they tell you spooky tales and put on a show
A range hood for the kitchen
Native plants & ferns
Postage stamps
A new/thrifted dress for the fall
Racks for Rotopax gas cans
Loop earplugs for sleep