Delightful Reveal #62

“If you didn’t want questions, why did you build a labyrinth for the mind?” - overhead at Flagrant

What we did:

• Conducted a multi-day product design sprint with a new client in construction management around diversity, equity, and inclusion compliance
• Replaced a custom file-uploading component with OneSchema
• Figured out how to wire up a background job with action cable
• Met with a transportation company about helping to design and build a new platform
• Added flare and sparkle to the RubyConf website that lives up to Val’s design and creates a better experience for the conference attendees
• Began adding new content sections for Flagrant’s website to educate and sell our quick wins to potential clients
• Did a dress rehearsal for Rails World emcee with Amanda Perino and Rebecca Miller-Webster
• Delivered final assets to Rocky Mountain Ruby (badges and stickers!)
• Created new postcards/info cards for Training Tracker and sent them to print
• Updated a component library in Figma to use Font Awesome, which we learned has a wonderful Figma component!
• Explored the solid suite of gems (solid_queue, solid_cable, solid_cache) that are becoming defaults in Rails 8
• Chatted as a team about Marketing for Weirdos during Clap & Cringe
• Added ActionCable support for live updates of shared discussions in an AI driven chat application
• Wrote a blog post on using ActionCable with TurboStreams
• Created a quick screencast of how to export an image from Figma that was getting cropped/cut off for a coworker:

What we’re reading:

• Beasts of a Little Land by Juhea Kim
• The Truths We Hold: An American Journey by Kamala Harris
• Mabuhay! by Zachary Sterling
• The Falcon’s Eyes by Francesca Stanfill (its wayyy too long)
• Hall of Smoke by H.M. Long
• Feng Shui Modern by Cliff Tan
• Laziness Does Not Exist by Devon Price
• Where The Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
• How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community by Mia Birdsong

What we’re playing:

• Days Gone
• Grow: Song of the Evertree
• In Other Waters
• Factorio
• Palia
• Rummikub

What we’re watching:

• AGT
• @fter midnight
• Name that Tune
• The Fall Guy
• Midnight at the Pera Palace S2
• Neon Genesis Evangelion (first ever watch-through)
• Last season of Doc Martin (sigh)
• Rebel Ridge
• My Hero Academia
• Asobi Asobase
• Otaku Hot Girl (Japan BTS) with Megan Thee Stallion

What we’re listening to:

• Smoke Screen (season 8) My Fugitive Dad
• St. Vincent’s All Born Screaming album
• Geronimo by Sheppard 
• Zoe Keating
• Florence and the Machine
• Requiem by Keshi
• Blue Wave by NCT Dream
• Homesick by Noah Kahan
• Wayfaring Stranger by Eva Cassidy
• Peppers and Onions by Tierra Whack
• Re:Re: (Single version) by Asian Kung-Fu Generation (hoping to get tickets to see them on tour while we’re in Japan!)

What we’re interested in:

• The four golden signals of monitoring
• This fun nO_op project by Yossef
• Snow tires for winter
• Space heaters
• Knitting
• Gouache 
• Ketamine
• T-shirt press - looking for recommendations

What we’re struggling with:

• COVID booster side effects
• finding help to move furniture out of the pod and into the basement
• a lot of cardboard in the garage
• Anxiety +1
• Blood sugar
• getting signed out of Google while filling out this doc
• Co-parenting
• Cat destroying new dining room chairs
• Sequoia breaking Soundsource’s interactions with Bluetooth headphones
• Someone knocking aggressively on my door to talk to be about letting Jesus conquer me
• Resisting all the targeted ads I’m getting for Mossery’s art kits to learn some new mediums/tools
• Finding a gumroad alternative

What we’re buying:

• So. Many. LEGOs.
• New socks
• a neck light for crochet (LumosLumos)
• yarn tension rings
• Advanced Usability and Accessibility course
• A beautiful hand-knotted rug for a steal of a price
• A very compact and well-designed magnetic tripod stand for my phone: Snap Phone Tripod Wallet from Moft
• Cat deterrent spray for furniture
• Interview rig for conferences
• Cat outdoor enclosure
• More Peak Design goodies including a phone case and rainfly

What we’re celebrating:

• Having hot water again
• All the house work being done! (for now)
• Font Awesome’s very reasonable/helpful licensing that automatically grants 5 seats to share the love
• Comfy blankets
• Teaching art lessons to a really sweet 8th grader
• Traci the Triceratops
• Becoming a member of a really cool local makerspace — The MINT
• Finishing building all the LEGO sets

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