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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...
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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
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 19, 2026
This time during the Developer Roundtable, we discussed an interesting thought Casey had. The opposite of the No true Scotsman. Anything counts as a Scotsman fallacy No true Scotsman The No true Scotsman is a type of logical mistake where someone changes the definition or criteria of a
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 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
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
Rspec and testing using capybara: Running my tests and seeing it run live can be super helpful for several reasons but especially when I am encountering a flaky spec. If I am running through the code and the logic makes sense or I have a binding.pry in the code and it is coming back
September 24, 2025
If your server seems stuck or unresponsive, or maybe its telling you there is already a process running but you cant seem to find and shut it down, here’s a quick few-step process to identify and kill the process blocking the port: Find the process using the port: lsof -i tcp:3000 This will
September 24, 2025
Problem: Our current implementation relies on session storage to manage the open “tabs” a user has. The “tabs” are in quotes because this lives on a dashboard and they are actually radio buttons under the hood that are styled to look like tabs. When a user clicks a tab, it interacts
