The Problem with Curiosity.
How many times has a project leader told you to "think different" while carving out no time, structure or community to allow it to happen…
How many times has a project leader told you to "think different" while carving out no time, structure or community to allow it to happen…
Happy reading x2! Enjoy the post and contact us to score a free eBook giveaway from Imposter Syndrome Speaker, Tali Lavarry. When I first…
When your job is to be the expert and advise other people, it can feel super awks to share your missteps. Yet if we always knew what we were…
Yayyy! We're back from visiting Portland for RailsConf 2022!! It's been a while since I've traveled to Portland and THIS trip was super…
“Who would name their company Flagrant?” you might ask. After all, the word “flagrant” has a ton of negative connotations. If you fill in…
No one wants to read about another company’s summit. Shit, most companies don’t want to read about their own summit. What IS helpful to read…
Hey, how ya doin? Whatcha been up to over the last 2 years which totally count as dog years? This is a soul-check from your friends at…
Behind Amanda Gorman's crackling poems, Malala Yousafzai's bullet scars and María Belón's fight against a friggen TSUNAMI are the voices of…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
There is a juicy sweet-spot between soulless corporate coding and writing software for hipster apps. Flagrant is a lifestyle career – you’ll…
When tasked with figuring out why unexpected behavior was happening in our app, I followed the bread crumb trail to this block of code: Who…
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…
Pagination With Hotwire In the pantheon of classic user stories over the years of modern web development, pagination is certainly well…
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…
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…
We recently posted a position (Remote Administrative Assistant) and I wanted to share how we interview at Flagrant. In part to set…
Do you possess a favorite high-lighter? Does your brain tingle when you mark comments as “resolved” in Google Docs? Do you actually like…
When your job is to "be the expert" and provide advice to other people, it sometimes feels uncomfortable to share your mistakes or ignorance…
We have been building a Responsive Web Chat application. In order to provide users with a look and feel similar to a native app we decided…
Comparing StimulusReflex and Hotwire Over the past few posts we've been talking about Reactive Rails and our experiences with Hotwire and…
A Brief Study of Hotwire We continue our exploration of Reactive Rails tools with Hotwire. This is the fourth post in the series--if you…
A Brief Study of StimulusReflex This post continues our exploration of Reactive Rails tools with StimulusReflex(SR) and its underlying…
Reactive Rails: Bare Bones Chat Introduction This is the second article in a five-part series on Reactive Rails. In the first post we wrote…
Reactive Rails In Context At Flagrant, we recently began designing a chat-centered product. As we were reaching for React, Basecamp dropped…
Hotwire dropped on the scene this past Christmas and it was right at a time where we were evaluating options for a product we’re building…
My brain is a gosh darn prodigy when remembering stuff like: Chewing gum jingles. Harry Potter spells. Pretty much any SpongeBob episode…
This has been an extraordinary and eventful year. For me it began with the passing of my father and was quickly followed by the fulfillment…
ActionMailbox is a great new feature shipped with Rails 6.0 that allows you to receive emails in your website; a sort of counterpart to…
An Experience Report Webpacker is the main line replacement for Sprockets and the Asset Pipeline, as of Rails 6. Webpacker wraps the…
At times, I feel like an island. As a software designer, I have been a team of one almost my entire career. While it can be inspiring to…
How I approach and create a small brand from scratch in a day. For any blank canvas or creative project, everyone approaches it differently…
Dealing with my self-diagnosed failure everyday at a software company and learning to let it go. I want to acknowledge that this will…