Many voices. One Flagrant.
When I first started as a developer, I vaguely understood what a designer actually did. Now, I can’t imagine building without them. That shift didn’t happen overnight and I don’t think I’m alone in that journey. I think there is a large number of people who still undervalue and diminish the...
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August 28, 2025
When I first started as a developer, I vaguely understood what a designer actually did. Now, I can’t imagine building without them. That shift didn’t happen overnight and I don’t think I’m alone in that journey. I think there is a large number of people who still undervalue and diminish the
August 21, 2025
This is not an intuitive thing to understand unless you’re already deep into TailwindCSS. Or, if you are me. So, if you somehow stumbled onto this post while trying to figure things out — welcome to the confusion. I hope I can help make it a little clearer. What I Was Trying to Do I needed
August 15, 2025
Good communication is an essential element to every successful relationship. Whether in our families, friendships or communities how clearly we express ourselves can often make the difference between building connection or aggravating conflicts. Having lived in intentional communities of one
August 15, 2025
In part 2 of our series we found a more reflective way of dialoguing with an agitated client while also exploring some of the flexibility in the dialog html element to match the user experience needed in a website. Let’s tackle some more challenging communication. At a meeting a co-worker
August 15, 2025
In the first part of this blog series we discussed how important communication and dialogue is in work, life and websites. In this second part we will explore how the dialog element can be used in other creative ways and find parallels to how to communicate more effectively using tools like
June 5, 2025
Every now and then I wonder if (or how much) I really like programming, or if it’s just something I do as a job or because I’ve done it for so long. Then I remember that in my free time I will play programming games. Programming games? Games about programming. Games where you program. Some of
October 23, 2024
It’s Friday morning and the Training Tracker production error handler started squawking. Redis::CannotConnectError: SSL_connect returned=1 errno=0 peeraddr=XX.XXX.XXX.XXX:XXXXX state=error: certificate verify failed (self signed certificate in certificate chain) Training Tracker is
October 10, 2024
Sweet Streams One of the gifts and challenges of working at a consultancy like Flagrant is that we sometimes find ourselves in between projects with time on our hands. This can be a good opportunity to slow down a bit and catch up on some personal projects away from the computer. For me, that
September 4, 2024
I have known about Ruby’s Module#prepend method since it was introduced in Ruby 2.0 over a decade ago but never quite found a need for it. Module#include is prepend’s older and more famous sibling similarly useful for decoration and composition. I suspect that other developers, like me, naturally
July 25, 2024
Hey there. Yossef here, and I have a story about pagination for you. We all know about pagination, right? Instead of showing a huge list of all 30,293 results at once, you get just a slice of 20 of those results (or 50, or 100, or whatever), and you can move through these slices, “page” by
July 18, 2024
In the world of software solutions, businesses often face a critical decision: should they build custom software, rent licensed software, or buy off-the-shelf solutions? Each option has its own pros and cons, but building custom software can be one of the better choices for businesses
June 15, 2024
TL,DR; We can impact your team or project in a short amount of time. When we work with folks we tend to build trust quickly. Often, that leads to more work in the future. We want to make it easier for people to get a foot in the door of working with us by clearly defining what
June 11, 2024
Last time I talked about soft deletion, I laid out a sticky situation I got myself into. That was mostly background and context to get to this point, where I can share a solution. Away we go! All these problems got me entirely fed up with this database-view way of handling soft deletion, and I
June 4, 2024
Hello RailsConf! On Monday, May 6th, four members of the Flagrant team climbed in cars and hopped on planes to make their way to RailsConf in Detroit. From Madison, where SaVance, Valenzia, and Jim began their trip, Detroit is around a 7-hour drive including stops for food and bio breaks.
April 29, 2024
A couple of cool science/technology news items just dropped: There’s going to be a new time zone for the moon (and non-Earth places, generally) The Earth was going to need an unprecedented negative leap second, but we’re not (yet) Coordinated Lunar Time (LTC) Remember that list
