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The year ahead offers both opportunity and pitfalls. Augmented reality (AR) is finally set to make real gains, hype around artificial intelligence (AI) will be grounded, and with an election year promising plenty of volatility, there’s no telling how markets and directions could change. That...
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January 31, 2024
The year ahead offers both opportunity and pitfalls. Augmented reality (AR) is finally set to make real gains, hype around artificial intelligence (AI) will be grounded, and with an election year promising plenty of volatility, there’s no telling how markets and directions could change. That
January 30, 2024
“That shipping forecast is a bop.” What we did: Released a big feature for our client that allows tour coordinators to create quotes with custom occupancy packages. Added logic to confirm leave functionality that only shows the confirmation when a user has made a change to the
January 25, 2024
Turbo has a knack for adding cool, little-but-useful features, resulting in a smoother experience for the user and developer alike. One lesser known capability within Turbo is the ability to easily customize the confirm process for a button. Although documented briefly in the Turbo Handbook, in
January 17, 2024
Every now and then I hear someone say something that reminds me how much design and what designers do can seem like a black box to people outside our profession. How do designers know what looks good? Isn’t design just one of those things that people are innately good at—either you have a feel
January 16, 2024
What we did: Finalized a role description for UX researcher / design strategist. Wrapped up some discovery research: Summarized research to date (not quite a report). Prioritized problems to solve by the level-of-effort we estimated it’d take to solve them. Began sketching and writing
December 18, 2023
As an artist and designer, I am always looking for inspiration. One of my favorite ways to do this is by following creators whose art, skill, and passion make me want to push my own skills further. Over the years, I’ve discovered many creatives that do just that. The list ranges from ceramicists
December 18, 2023
“I don’t know why I have the ‘yeehaws’ this morning and I’m sorry dude.” What we did: Finished a blog post on styling disabled buttons with Hotwire Learned about using nip.io to allow me to use my mobile device while testing on my local environment Wrestling with inline
December 12, 2023
One cool feature that comes with Turbo are Eager Loaded Frames. By simply adding a src attributes to your turbo frame Turbo will make an asynchronous request to the given url when the turbo frame is rendered on the page. This simple feature while powerful in itself can be the jumping off point
December 6, 2023
It’s Wednesday. You’ve passed your Tuesday code-freeze because the project you’ve been working on for 6 months is about to be introduced for the first time at an industry event to hundreds of new users. The sales team is going to be talking individually with dozens of potential clients one-on-one
December 4, 2023
“Here’s the problem with humans…” What we did: Had a 1x1 with a client to check in on progress and talk about resourcing in the new year. Used Ahoy gem to keep track of user events and created tables and graphs to meaningfully showcase those events. Held a planning meeting and
November 30, 2023
I switch between projects all day. The projects I am switching between use different node versions. Here is an example of what it looks like when I switch projects. cjb/really_good_code/older_project $ cd ../shiny_new_project cjb/really_good_code/shiny_new_project $ bin/dev [ERROR]
November 20, 2023
“Great minds don’t bamboozle alike” What we did: (Soft-)Launched Madison Ruby 2024 website Attended RubyConf 2023 in San Diego! Guided Jarrod through his first conference and helped him craft a Lightning Talk which he presented Met and talked with a lot of talented early
November 6, 2023
“You know how sometimes you get your bones vibrated?” What we did: Untangled a mess of spaghetti code that handled everything involving the “scope” of a “collection” in a client app (i.e. the search, filtering, pagination, and sorting of a list). Described (and visualized) how users
October 26, 2023
Problem: Our current implementation relies on session storage to manage the open “tabs” a user has, and this is leading to improper functioning of the link_to anchor. To provide some context, we offer three tab options that users can click on to display distinct sets of information. Here is
October 23, 2023
“It’s like /dev/null, but for people.” What we did: Released a new episode of Dev Roundtable on our Youtube! Checked in with our earliest adopter Translated our collaborative sketching from our on-site into slightly-higher fidelity versions Began to wind down the most
