Many voices. One Flagrant.
Behind Amanda Gorman’s crackling poems, Malala Yousafzai’s bullet scars and María Belón’s fight against a friggen TSUNAMI are the voices of powerful allies who empowered the shit out of their sisterhood. We shudder to think what the world would look like without women supporting women. And as...
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March 11, 2022
Behind Amanda Gorman’s crackling poems, Malala Yousafzai’s bullet scars and María Belón’s fight against a friggen TSUNAMI are the voices of powerful allies who empowered the shit out of their sisterhood. We shudder to think what the world would look like without women supporting women. And as
February 28, 2022
I recently had the pleasure of refactoring a view file for a client project. The pleasure part of that sentence is a lie and definitely laced with sarcasm. I grew more grey hairs and thought of throwing my computer out the window several times. via GIPHY So why was it so damn difficult to
February 15, 2022
Who would you rather slog through a tough project with – Kevin Hart or Christian Bale? Humor is one of the most powerful forms of emotional expression and team connection. A spontaneous snort/organ-splitting laugh/doubled-over wheeze all have the ability to leap-frog hierarchies and cultural
February 15, 2022
What a sad situation. A lonely child record has a foreign key that points to a parent record of a primary key that no longer exists. Sob How could we, as software developers, let this happen? Imagine we have three tables: dogs, walkers, and a join table that is called dog_walkers. Great,
February 11, 2022
As the 2022 Lunar New Year celebrations draws to a close, I am reflecting on how immensely grateful I am for this intense and magical time of year. In these past few days, I experienced grief from losing an ancestor, joy in celebrations with family, deep thought-provoking conversations with
January 27, 2022
Have you heard of a “design pattern”? If you have, and if you know the history, and if you don’t feel like double- or triple-checking how well I’m going to explain this, you can skip this entire post. Otherwise, buckle up! Simply put, a “design pattern” is a general, reusable solution to a
January 24, 2022
Take a deep breath in . . . And a long breath out . . . . . How are you doing today? We’ve being doing some powerful work lately and this year is just getting started. I believe that in order to achieve those big dreams we envision, to reach global sustainability within our lifetime,
January 4, 2022
But hey, it’s not what you think! Far from a Plath/Dickinson/Black Sabbath kink, Morgan Moran literally apprenticed at a funeral home for 1 year to learn more about life through death. Yes, she did all the things there. “If you know me, which you don’t, BUT IF YOU DID, you’d know I have a lot
December 20, 2021
We interview based on how we work. Here is a post describing what someone can expect when they apply with Flagrant. There is a juicy sweet-spot between soulless corporate coding and writing software for hipster apps. Flagrant is a lifestyle career – you’ll do work that matters
November 12, 2021
When tasked with figuring out why unexpected behavior was happening in our app, I followed the bread crumb trail to this block of code: def trial_days Arel::Nodes::Multiplication.new( Arel::Nodes::NamedFunction.new('COALESCE',[arel_table[:trial_days], TRIAL_DAYS]),
October 27, 2021
Look at you. You learned so much about software, that the intelligent folks at Flagrant HQ decided that you were capable of learning A LOT more about software. Way to go, I’m sure that was difficult. You deserve a pat on the back, a firm hand-shake, heck i’d even buy you a slice. So you ‘git’
September 23, 2021
Pagination With Hotwire In the pantheon of classic user stories over the years of modern web development, pagination is certainly well represented. The first release of the long lived will_paginate gem goes all the way back to 2008 and the early years of Rails. Amazingly, newer gems like
September 1, 2021
We’ve all been there. You have a deadline or a goal that you, or perhaps your boss, desperately wants to meet. But when you sit down all that comes to mind is thoughts of an unending abyss filled with nothingness. We asked our team what things they do when they get stuck so hopefully you’ll
May 24, 2021
What’s in your head: What’s on your site: While ancient philosophers sought to know the mind of God, modern business owners just want to make a website that doesn’t suck. It’s difficult to sell something that is so intimately known to you. Famous Example: The interview question no
May 13, 2021
We recently posted a position (Remote Administrative Assistant) and I wanted to share how we interview at Flagrant. In part to set expectations for folks who may apply for this position, but also to address a deeply broken part of our industry. What I am not going to address here is how people
