Delightful Reveal #8

Suggestion for today’s self care activity: model your stretches based on your pet’s current movements.

What we did:

• Planned and held concept tests with two users. Held a mini-retro during which we updated our “handoff” process between research and design.
• Created a discovery plan for a new (to us) product, and began to onboard the team to do it.
• Interviewed a few partners to help staff an upcoming project.
• Designs for a wizard-like modal experience for adding complex expenses to a trip budget.
• Oops, going back to design the empty states for stuff we worked on a few weeks ago and overlooked.
• Met with some freelance designers with whom to share work.
• Chatted with igitur about music for podcasts, honing your talents, and pursuing passions at any age.
• Used a YubiKey for client AWS login.
• Started a #drinks channel in Slack but didn’t invite anyone to it without their consent.

What we’re reading:

• Tether elements to each other with CSS anchor positioning by Jhey Tompkins (Chrome Developers) 
• Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Tales of Extraordinary Women, Volume 1-3 by Francesca Cavallo, Elena Favilli (StoryGraph)
• The Absurdity of Bureaucracy: How implementation works by Nina Holm Vohnsen (StoryGraph)
• The Manager’s Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change by Camille Fournier (StoryGraph)
• 19 best ‘Hot Ones’ episodes to binge-watch (Mashable)
• Carl Sagan was involved in a top secret plan to nuke the moon (The Whippet)
• It’s scarier to talk about what you love than about your failings and vulnerabilities re: special interests (The Whippet)
• Plants talk. Plants Listen (NPR)
• Devil House by John Darnielle (Devil House Book)

What we’re watching:

• Turks & Caicos (2014)
• The Tale Of Frodrick Of The Fence! (2:15)
• Three Thousand Years of Longing
• 1979 BBC version of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
• 6 Pro Chefs Make Their Favorite 15-minute meal
• Bee and Puppycat
• The Last of Us
• Shrinking
• Old
• Night Court (1984)
• Ghosts (the original British version)

What we’re listening to:

• Neutral Milk Hotel’s Remastered Releases
• Kenny Hoopla
• The War on Drugs (+1)
• Nice Try! — Biosphere 2: The Theater of Utopia
• Sam Fender
• Technotronic - Pump Up The Jam (Official Music Video) 
• Sparks - The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte (Official Video) - Starring Cate Blanchett
• Sidney Gish on Audiotree Live

What we’re interested in:

• Oaks
• The origins of the idea of “Patching” in code
• Ketamine treatments
• Power Stations to prepare for Hurricane Season

What we’re struggling with:

• Installing fonts into Figma with consistent baselines and naming conventions
• Wet gray days
• Icy sidewalks
• Redactle is down 😞
• Being signed out of Google in the middle of editing this doc
• Not being able to play the audio on our HomePod while watching free content on Amazon Prime
• Trying to understand why anyone would want paste to default to with formatting
• A little turbo gotcha to be aware of. Turbo frames are a bit persnickety. If you submit a form from within a turbo frame it will expect the response to return the same turbo frame. If it doesn’t then you might be asking for trouble. In our case we had a form inside a modal inside a turbo frame and on successful submission we were doing the natural redirect with a flash notice. However, the flash notice was not showing. Turns out we were getting a turbo stream request and then an additional html request and so the flash message was gone for the second request. The solution in our case was to simply add data-turbo-frame: ‘_top’ to the form which is well documented. I just had not run into this situation yet and was not expecting the behavior. There are other ways of dealing with the problem like catching the turbo:frame-missing event. Most important is to know that this gotcha is out there.

What we’re buying:

• Bath Towels
• New sketchbooks
• 932°F Extreme Heat Resistant BBQ Oven Safety Gloves
• Game Counter Trays
• Bryce Fabric Manual Reclining Couch

What we’re celebrating:

• “The team, the team!”
• Co-worker coming to Wisconsin
• Women’s History Month
• The Woman King is on Netflix
• Self Care with Cody: “Poorly constructed windmills, Modeling your stretches based of your animals current movements”
• Making our first rack of lamb
• Spending some quality time with family
• Finishing a cross-stitch project and starting on a new one
• The final weekend of Lifespan of a Fact, a play produced by ABET in Jacksonville Beach, Florida
• The word “nibling”, but the aunt/uncle problem is largely unsolved (“pibling” doesn’t get used much)
• Going Skiing in the upper peninsula of Michigan with friends for their birthdays
• Getting coronated at the dentist: 

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