Delightful Reveal #21

“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.