Many voices. One Flagrant.
Delightfully Friday Junior comes for us all, and this time it was my turn. (What’s Delightfully Friday Junior? Check this out.) I thought what we’d do was set up some tier lists for rating things. Rating what? Whatever we wanted! That’s part of the fun of just putting a little bit of structure...
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February 17, 2026
This week, for the first time, I decided to try out a coding agent using the Zed editor on a free pro trial. As a seasoned developer I have found patterns that suit my pace and personality so there is often resistance to trying out the latest new tool that might disrupt my workflow. Of course,
December 29, 2025
For our final Delightfully Friday Junior (if you haven’t heard of it yet, learn more here) of the year, the team gathered to make gingerbread houses and other digitally baked scenes. As we weren’t limited to the social integrity of the usual marshmallows and graham crackers, we closed out 2025
December 18, 2025
In case you missed it, Flagrant just launched our swag shop! In honor of this, I’m super excited to give you a little BTS of the creation of some of our items and some insight into how this came about. Quick overview of the problem: Finding a way to show and sell our designs. We wanted to
December 15, 2025
I just participated in PiCoSteveMo. What’s that? It’s a month-long game jam for making a PICO-8 game inspired by a Stephen King work. Oh, did that just raise further questions? Hold on. “What’s a game jam?” It’s an event where you try to create a video game from scratch. “What’s
December 12, 2025
Life is a puzzle. You are born, you die and a lot of puzzling stuff happens in between. We here at Flagrant love puzzles. I think the thing I enjoy most about my work is that I get to solve real world puzzles everyday. Sometimes it is trying to figure out how to write a database query,
November 19, 2025
For our 4th Delightfully Friday Junior activity (see more about Delightfully Friday Junior here!) the team embarked on a virtual scavenger hunt. The goal was to use photos from our camera rolls to answer prompts and then share a bit about the photos we share. This activity was designed to get us
November 7, 2025
From a talk I gave on September 20, 2025, at XO Ruby New Orleans. If you use dark mode on any of your devices—or even if you don’t—you’ve probably seen a lot of interfaces and websites in dark themes. Framer, Google Fonts, Linear’s website, and many others showcase dark mode designs, even
November 7, 2025
Delightfully Friday Junior III We have offically done three rounds of Delightfully Friday Junior. Where does the time go? If this sounds new to you, here is our first take - show and tell), and our second take - this or that. Take a gander at these to get the who, what, why, where an when
October 22, 2025
What’s Delightfully Friday Junior, you ask? This is only our second go-round (see our first take—show and tell—here), so you’re forgiven for not knowing. At Flagrant we have different themes to our daily stand-ups, each one focusing on a different vibe, prompt, or mini team-building moment
October 10, 2025
What’s Delightfully Friday Junior, you ask? It’s our new, every-other-Thursday event here at Flagrant—a little experimental, a little silly, and surprisingly educational. Think: doing something fun and lighthearted, only to realize later… oh wait, I actually learned something. We Call That:
September 24, 2025
What we did: Deleting huge amounts of code that was contributing to tech debt Finalized colors for the Rocky Mountain Ruby t-shirt! Started work with Ruby Central and am getting accustomed to their setup/mapping out the requests :D Set up another XO Ruby design book club. We’ll
September 24, 2025
What in the world is ParEdit? Here is the “explain it to me like I’m 5” version: “ParEdit is like a helpful assistant for editing code that uses a lot of parentheses (like in math or some programming languages). It makes sure you never accidentally mess up your parentheses, like leaving one
September 24, 2025
Soft Deletion I’m sure we have all run into soft deletion and if you haven’t, I will break it down for you. Soft deletion is all about having the ability to restore data we have deleted. Sorry, “deleted”. Essentially, you aren’t actually deleting data from the database, you are just
September 24, 2025
If you have never seen or read the Grug Brained Developer, then you are welcome because here it is for you to enjoy. Cody, one of the developers at Flagrant, shared this with folks on the team and it was a good re-exposure for some and a nice first time reading for others. TL;DR: This is a
