Delightful Reveal #69
A bi-weekly update on all things Flagrant
“Libre Bodoni, holy bologna!” - overheard at Flagrant
What we did:
- Refined UI for a A/B testing flow
- Trying to learn how ghost works +1
- Implementing XO Ruby homepage updates and cleaning up crufty css
- Document Flagrant website design system work
- Recorded an episode of the IndieRails podcast with hosts Jeremy Smith and Jess Brown due out March 4th
- Scheduled an appearance with David Hill on the Ode To RailsConf podcast
- Automated the refreshing of the Training Tracker Site map.
- Allowed Training Tracker Users to filter Assignments based on Task Groups
- Added a Newsletter signup to Training Tracker
- Created a Newsletter template for Training Tracker and I will be sending out the first newsletter next week.
- Sent off Training Tracker playing card designs for print
- Completed an 800 pc online jigsaw puzzle during our monthly Flagrant Recharge
- Design review on multiple months of development work for a client project
- Built a reusable table component with expandable rows in React
What we’re reading:
- Haikyuu!! by Haruichi Furudate
- Barrow of Winter by H.M. Long
- How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen by David Brooks
- The Fours Winds by Kristin Hannah
- I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
- I’m Laughing Because I’m Crying: A Memoir by Youngmi Mayer
- The Reckoning of Roku by Randy Ribay
- All That’s Left in the World by Erik J. Brown
- Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
- Believe: The Untold Story Behind Ted Lasso, the Show That Kicked Its Way into Our Hearts by Jeremy Egner
- Chapter 2 of Practical Object Oriented Design in Ruby by Sandi Metz for the Community Readalong on The Storygraph +1
What we’re playing:
- Grindstone (iOS) +1
- Stardew Valley +1 (working toward Perfection goal!)
- Overcooked 2, forever and always
- Snowrunner
- Letterlike
- Catan
- Squaredle
- Mandalorian boardgame
- Mario Party
- UFO 50 games (Mooncat)
- Mahjong
- Wingspan
What we’re watching:
- DS9
- The new season of kitchen nightmares (set in New Orleans)
- Skeleton Crew (+1)
- Matlock (reboot)
- Yellow Jackets S1 & S2
- Nobody Asked
- Abbott Elementary S4 (+1)
- Stranger Things S4 (rewatch in preparation for new season)
- Squidgame S2
- Cobra Kai - Rewatch
- Haikyuu!!
- Shrinking S2
- The Great Pottery Throwdown’s new season
- Monsieur Spade
- Queer Eye S9
- Blown Away S4
- The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
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What we’re listening to:
- This Wasn’t Meant For You Anyway - Lola Young
- Space Banjo
- Mac Miller
- The Replacements
- The National
- Bad Gays podcast
- Dandelion by grentperez
- CBZ (Prime time) by BSS
- Alt-J
- The Fraud by Zadie Smith
What we’re interested in:
- Ceramic Glazes and making weird shit that people probably will not want :)
- Found a new robot fighting league!
- Potentially learning how to build a robot with this crash course
- Starting up with a new/old therapist, she used to be my therapist years ago so lots of catching up to do.
- Getting an NVC practice group going again.
What we’re struggling with:
- Insurance
- A sick baby
- Is winter over yet?
- A week of below freezing weather
- gestures everywhere – politics and facism seeping into daily brain space… again
- 10” of snow in New Orleans (the most we’ve gotten since 1895)
- Itchy tattoo healing/adhesive sensitivity with dry skin in winter temps!
What we’re buying:
- Jurassic tour tickets
- A NEW FURNACE (cue the Price is Right music, then sad trombone)
- Lodging, tours, and other travel things for an upcoming trip to the Grand Canyon
What we’re celebrating:
- My birthday (Jan 23rd)
- Getting my sister addicted to stardew valley
- Painting upstairs
- Getting to celebrate Lunar New Year with family and old friends 🐍
- Outside temperatures being over 60 degrees
- Deleting my Twitter account
- Snowball fights, the joy of Southerners experiencing snow, and the welcome distraction of 10” of snow in New Orleans (and the power stayed on!)
- My son getting a summer internship job in Northern Alberta.
If you’re looking for a team to help you discover the right thing to build and help you build it, get in touch.
Published on January 30, 2025
