Delightful Reveal #66

“Ah yes, how can I get children to lick the screen while learning to read” - overheard at Flagrant

What we did:

• Got VIM working with COC (Conquer Of Completion) to help with developing on a React/Typescript front end.
• Wrestled with pagination and filtering within a bridgetown app
• Several weirdos are vacationing in Asia
• Several weirdos attended RubyConf in Chicago
• Building a design system leveraging figma variables and components for a client
• Building skeuomorphic toolbars inspired by school supplies for an app that helps children learn to read
• Implementing a complex filter component
• Removing unused code!

What we’re reading:

• Tom Lake by Ann Patchett

What we’re playing:

• Stardew Valley +1
• Some Animal Crossing with Sarah
• Hades 2

What we’re watching:

• Yellowstone
• The Penguin
• Star Trek Lower Decks
• The Great British Bakeoff

What we’re listening to:

• Don’t Let Me Down Again cover by Andrew Byrd and Madison Cunningham
• Alaska by Maggie Rodgers
• Sabrina Carpenter
• Ray Charles
• Jack’s Mannequin
• Bernie Sanders Says Democrats Have Lost Their Way on The Daily

What we’re interested in:

• Last darkroom class (printing negatives)
• Getting a keyholder membership to a local ceramics studio. Waiting for approval……..
• Pasta flights at a restaurant in Milwaukee

What we’re struggling with:

• Anxiety
• Dog recovering from surgery
• Shutting down the porch and cleaning gutters to prepare for winter 🙁
• Some uncertainty with my Sister’s care, but working on it
• State of the world
• Getting swiped by a big dump truck on a blind curve
• Styling vector shapes and strokes and shadows in Figma components (just gave up and switched to Illustrator)
• The muck of deciding what color variables are needed and what to name them for a new design system

What we’re buying:

• All the cat supplies
• Recovery suits for dog
• A microbiology mug for my sister who is a microbiology major
• Squishmallows for my niece, including a pickle one with a mustache
• The wrong baseboard for a repair in our kitchen (you must always visit Lowes 2 times in order to get the correct item)
• This travel bag and this wash pouch (as gifts)
• A fancy espresso tamper
• Silly lens cleaning cloths from Jinkies

What we’re celebrating:

• Adopting new kitties!
• A visit to Brandywine
• Surgery for Finn was successful
• Sweater weather
• Heading to see the latest show up at the Mortal Machine Gallery
• Getting to reconnect with a friend
• Taking a trip tomorrow to the regional ceramic supply store to stock up
• Restoring a hoop house damaged by treefall during Hurricane Helene

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