Many voices. One Flagrant.
Survival shows aren’t really about surviving. The environment is backdrop. What keeps you watching are the people — how they think under pressure, what they reach for first, who holds together and who doesn’t. I tested that theory on our team. Split them into two groups, handed each a...
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August 24, 2026
Delightfully Friday Junior came back for me, and this time it wasn’t my first rodeo. (Psst. Are you new here? Do you not know about Delightfully Friday Junior? Let’s fix that.) I did some digging around to search for an activity, and nothing really called to me. Then I considered that we’ve
August 20, 2026
This week during our Developer Round Table, Yossef shared some information with the group about API development he’d been doing recently for a client, along with some of the different tools a developer has available for testing an API and showcasing that testing to a client. He walked through
July 20, 2026
You know what’s weird? CSS is everywhere, pretty much on every website and yet, there’s this attitude about CSS that persists that it doesn’t need to be taken seriously; it’s just icing on a cake. Casey brought this up at a Developer Round Table discussion, and it hit home. There’s this vibe that
June 25, 2026
Here at Flagrant, we’re big fans of our fur babies and critters alike (we even have a dedicated Slack channel to share photos with each other). This week’s Delightfully Friday Junior is brought to you by our unconditional love for the non-human brethren in our lives and a healthy dose of
June 23, 2026
A couple of months ago, I wrote about starting to use Claude Code. I’m still there, still living in Claudeville. I’m still feeling plenty of things, including being conflicted in many ways. And it all comes down to energy use — that is, what energy I have to dedicate to this work. The
June 16, 2026
When it was my turn to plan the DFJ activity, I wanted to make something that would allow us to relax together, take our minds out of work mode, and just get into the flow of creating without stress. When I think about times when I was the most relaxed and in the creative flow, I think about
May 22, 2026
Herb, created by Marco Roth, is a new HTML-aware ERB parser designed to improve developer tooling for Rails view templates. Unlike traditional parsers that either ignore embedded Ruby or modify the original HTML, Herb understands both HTML and ERB simultaneously while preserving the source
May 7, 2026
I’ve been putting off writing this for over a month. Turns out I find writing hard. Moving on. We’re into the next cycle of Delightfully Friday Junior. The format: one team member hosts 30 minutes, no work allowed, activity of their choice. Games, creative tasks, questions — whatever they
May 5, 2026
This week’s Delightfully Friday Junior (if you’re catching up on what this is, learn more here) involved a roundtable sharing of some prompted questions. A few of these questions were: “What song have you had on repeat?”, “What cartoon or movie character would you want to meet and why?”, “What
April 20, 2026
This week’s Delightfully Friday Junior (if you’re catching up on what this is, learn more here) involved a roundtable sharing of Rose, Thorn, Bud. It’s a great activity in reflecting and learning about our teammates and the full, rich lives we each lead. Everybody shared at least one Rose,
April 10, 2026
This developer roundtable, Casey showcased learnings from his experience using ClojureScript. He is a senior UI/UX engineer and worked at Flagrant previously. He created a game with ClosureScript called Counterspell that was inspired by Strands, the New York Times game. But first, what is
April 6, 2026
For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been reluctantly using Claude Code. This is “reluctant” for a host of reasons I don’t want to get into at the moment, because I don’t want to turn this into a diatribe or rant, or a series of rants (no promises). Instead, I just want to talk about what I’m
March 20, 2026
Flagrant has been experimenting with spending our internal time / non-client facing time in building meaningful things. Everything from our new Shop page to our Bookshop are artifacts of the team coming together to create our own work. We want to continue creating but when the team is faced with
March 19, 2026
Though I’m not currently disabled, I spent several years of my childhood chronically ill without a diagnosis (followed by emergency surgery and a full recovery). I’ve suffered shoulder injuries that kept me away from my pottery studio and prevented me from lifting grocery bags. Once, I twisted an
