Delightful Reveal #21
A weekly update on all things Flagrant
“I feel like some sort of seasonal gourd…” - overheard this week at Flagrant.
What we did:
- Got the nod from a client to help with their branding across six different properties/applications
- Connected with a high school intern about potential summer work opportunities.
- Brainstorming and proposing new proposals.
- Ate food and celebrated Memorial Day with neighbors
- Fought with Tailwind. Learned a lot about borders and its impact on tables (especially when you try and use multiple tables to look like one table)
- Began incorporating the feedback we received from a user group from our trip to DC to the email wizard UI
- Created a spreadsheet representing a pricing algorithm so we can compare an old way of working with our new one
- Started to refine high resolution mockups of an information architecture application and incorporate their brand palette
- Figured out breakpoints for a bus bar indicator using a recursive algorithm
- Spun up some self-hosted services and explored what is available in that realm
- Getting ready for Blue Ridge Ruby!
What we’re reading:
- “My Approach to Building Large Technical Projects” (from Mitchell Hashimoto)
- “The new Barbie movie used so much pink paint on set that it caused an international shortage, according to its production designer” (from Business Insider)
- The Art of Doing Science and Engineering by Richard W. Hamming
- AI Camera with no lens 🤯 by Anita Kirkovska
- “UX in E-government Services for Citizens: A Systematic Literature Review” by Asma Aldrees, Denis Gračanin
- Swift documentation
- Swift for Ruby Developers
- An Immense World by Ed Yong
What we’re watching:
- Los Espookys Season 2
- Wrapping up Ted Lasso 😢
- Polar Bear’s Cafe (Crunchyroll)
- “The Great” S3
- Silo
- Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumanium
- I Think You Should Leave (S3)
- Finished: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
- Ru Paul’s All Stars new season
- The Duke
What we’re listening to:
- Believe in Magic
- Outside/In: Tempest in a Teacup about the passenger pigeon, its symbolic extinction story, and why discussing passenger pigeons is so controversial among historians and curators
- Queens of the Stone Age new single release: Emotion Sickness
- Seven Psalms by Paul Simon
- Season 8 of Slow Burn, about Becoming Justice Thomas
- Hotline Bling Billie Speed
- TELEHEALTH - “TALIESIN GRID” (2023, official video)
What we’re interested in:
- Comparing pet positions to food shapes
- Road America super bikes weekend
- Relearning glass lamp working
What we’re struggling with:
- long-overdue tree care
- Migraines
- Tomatoes as vegetables
- Summer sads
- Outboard motor (probably carburetor)
- Lower Back Pain
- People. We are going back in time and becoming more hateful to each other :(
What we’re buying:
- A new gravel driveway
- New blinds that have the ability to go top down
- The strange artifact of Apple wired lightning-connector earbuds
- Allllll of the coffee. Manitowoc Coffee is struggling right now so trying to help my mom out
- Azmaya Oval Teapot with Side Handle
- Endgame Coffee Filter Holder
- Atmos Vacuum Canister
- Donating to two Kiva participants from Uganda, who are looking for loans in farming and clothing to help refugees Delish & Hellen
- Toyama Hamono Secateurs
What we’re celebrating:
- Canceling our Basecamp account
- My nephew’s 3rd birthday!
- Collapsible headings have finally happened to Google Docs
- Our kid going to Italy for a summer photojournalism class in Urbino
- The LGBTQIA2S+ community near and far
- Kenny Log-Ins
- My dogs’ 13th birthdays (they are littermates)
If you’re looking for a team to help you discover the right thing to build and help you build it, get in touch.