Delightful Reveal #38

“You can’t scare me, I’m into math.”

What we did:

• Signed an agreement to work with Metis Communications to help get the word out about about our people
• Represented at Friendly.rb, Your Friendly European Ruby Conference, in Romania
• Delivered a proposal to a nearly 50 year-old nail polish company
• Dynamically added custom turbo confirm message using turbo:click event listener
• Allow users submitting Vehicle Accidents Reports to specify how select employees were involved in the Accident
• Fleshing out a form that will allow a user to book a demo and get custom pricing
• Created a logo for RubyConf San Diego
• Started working on creating a logo, colors and theme for RailsConf Detroit
• Started working on some trivia playing card designs for Training Tracker
• Reached out to a printer to work out pricing and timeline for printing playing cards 
• Created a Corgi-Rex sticker
• Welcomed new early adopters into production 
• Planned and held two user research sessions to inform delivery
• Continued workshopping materials for a management retro
• A crazy-8s practice run
• Configured our DMARC records to support Brand Indicators for Message Identification (BIMI)
• Co-designed a two-day on-site workshop to agree to a vision for encouraging adoption, and discuss what’s next
• Flagrant Recharge! Marveled at photos from our colleagues’ vacation to Costa Rica (Sloths! Sloths! Sloths!)
• Provided ‘a way’ to hide the particles on Ruby Central’s website
• Began building out a swag theme for a client’s top 50 clients
• Completed the semifinalist application survey for BRAVA’s Woman to Watch

What we’re reading:

• Excession, The Player of Games, and Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks
• The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
• The XY Problem
• “How Linear builds product” by Lenny Rachitsky
• “We’re Bringing Responsive Video Back!” by Scott Jehl
• The Design Sprint: How smart teams start big projects

What we’re watching:

• The Machine (2023 movie)
• Metropolis (1927)
• Sex Education S4
• Glow Up S5
• What We Do In The Shadows S5
• Sophia Prater’s “Mini Workshop: Fixing Four UX Mistakes with OOUX”
• Justified: City Primeval

What we’re listening to:

• Unreal Unearth - Hozier
• Starland Vocal Band - Afternoon Delight (1976)
• Ryan Gosling - I’m Just Ken Exclusive - From Barbie The Album \Official
• Cautionary Tales of the Sydney Opera House
• Sari by Nellie McKay
• Ordinary Days -D.O

What we’re interested in:

• Typography 
• Swashbuckler rogues with the Magic Initiate feat (for booming blade)
• Stardew Valley
• Geodes (still)
• Geodes in Stardew Valley
• Architecture
• Creative resistance to AI (such as trapping autonomous cars in salt circles)
• Plotter Vision (renders 3D models as line drawings)
• Diceware for generating passwords

What we’re struggling with:

• Time
• People
• Neck pain after sleeping
• Discovery
• Vaccine immune response good, but bad for sleeping

What we’re buying:

• Sesame Street T Shirt 
• Cork Trivet
• Flights to Miami and Mexico for a February/March 2024 retreat and aviation expo
• Plants. All of them
• Pre-ordered We, the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age by Wendy H. Wong
• Vivyd lights
• Craighill eyewear stand
• Books
• New board games for upcoming time off
• Tracing the Line
• Sticky notes

What we’re celebrating:

• First pottery 101 class. Touching dirt. Haven’t done this in 15 years.
• Mini vacation next week
• Jen’s birthday by visiting the Dell of the Eau Claire (River)
• Tickets to a water ballet performance of Carrie

If you’re looking for a team to help you discover the right thing to build and help you build it, get in touch.