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Community Action Teams (CATs) At a small consultancy, sometimes it’s challenging to prioritize internal tasks amid the daily hum of activity for our clients’ projects. We’ve written in the past about experiments, and we also have internal projects, but we realized neither of those are a great...
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May 13, 2024
Community Action Teams (CATs) At a small consultancy, sometimes it’s challenging to prioritize internal tasks amid the daily hum of activity for our clients’ projects. We’ve written in the past about experiments, and we also have internal projects, but we realized neither of those are a great
May 6, 2024
“Sorry, my left key doesn’t work because my cat has stepped on it too much.” What we did: Thought deeply and consulted broadly about reorganizing all layers of our components on a project Welcomed our first three beta testers in the system, reviewed recording of our manually
May 1, 2024
RailsConf 2024 is set for May 7 – 9. It’s the world’s longest-running conference for Ruby on Rails developers. Attendees will find presentations for all skill levels – new users to seasoned professionals – with everyone discussing, collaborating and learning about building, deploying, testing and
April 29, 2024
A couple of cool science/technology news items just dropped: There’s going to be a new time zone for the moon (and non-Earth places, generally) The Earth was going to need an unprecedented negative leap second, but we’re not (yet) Coordinated Lunar Time (LTC) Remember that list
April 24, 2024
From 2011 to 2018 we put on Madison+ Ruby, a T-shaped conference, in Downtown Madison, WI that celebrated people. Whether that meant embracing our authentic selves, searching for the Meaning of (Artificial) Life, or creating Sweaters as a Service. After a five-year hiatus we’re bringing it back
April 23, 2024
“Thanks for getting your brain juice on my code.” What we did: Designed multiple lists feature for Curators Won a proposal to help a client improve their product management chops Hosted a user research watching party to revisit prior sessions in light of new research questions.
April 8, 2024
Hello! I’m back again to share more creatives. This installation is a bit heavier on the painterly side, a style I find to be deeply moving and inspiring. I hope you also gain some insight from these amazing creators! Riso Chan With her vibrant and expressive strokes and combination of both
April 8, 2024
I’m drinking coffee for two now. What we did: Rethinking, reworking, re-imagining a user flow to create better UX for first time users and allowing for users to start from scratch when there is no data. Talked about the requirements for an API linking two systems we’re working
April 1, 2024
During a recent visit to Chicago, I met up with a friend for coffee who asked me a seemingly straightforward question about my business: “Are you hiring juniors?” Despite its simplicity, I found myself hesitating with the response. Reflecting on my own career journey, I understand the immense
March 25, 2024
“Those developers…what’re you up to?” What we did: Designed and built the splash page for RubyConf 2024 for release next week. Played with kittens. Began redesigning Training Tracker presentation slides. Upgraded to Turbo 8 and learned about some cool features it
March 19, 2024
I was working on an import process, basically slurping in a bunch of data and shoving it into a database. Well, a little more nicely than just “shoving”. There’s massaging the data a bit from the input format, validating it, and then going through the normal creation flow (at least the
March 11, 2024
“No apparent blockers other than the concept of time.” What we did: Work! +1 Traveled to Miami for PartsBase Expo 2024 in support of Training Tracker. Redesigned a comments pill so that people can discover it more easily based on client feedback. Got feedback from an early
March 7, 2024
At some point everyone bumps into the age old problem of unintentional multiple form submissions usually caused by repeated pressing of submit buttons. Fortunately, if you are using Turbo you get the automatic disabling of buttons for free right out of the box. While Turbo is great at
February 26, 2024
“That’s how software works, we go into people’s dreams at night.” What we did: Allll of the bug fixes/improvements – made a lot of progress polishing an upcoming release. Allowed users to upload Attachments for specific Trainees within Training Tracker. Allowed users to group a
February 6, 2024
To start, what is soft deletion? It’s just adding some data to a database record (like a flag or a timestamp) to mark something as “deleted”, so it remains in the database but is no longer shown. There are a few reasons to do this, but the big one is making the record easy to restore (just remove
