Delightful Reveal #50

“Those developers…what’re you up to?”

What we did:

• Designed and built the splash page for RubyConf 2024 for release next week.
• Played with kittens.
• Began redesigning Training Tracker presentation slides.
• Upgraded to Turbo 8 and learned about some cool features it contains.
• Created an inline edit form for mobile table rows and then made the rows clickable to open the form with Turbo.
• Began working on signage for RubyConf Detroit.
• Planned for and led research (road test) sessions with four prospective customers and users. Sent thank you emails.
• Analyzed stakeholder interviews.
• Solicited feedback from early adopters.
• Filed taxes in two countries.
• Call for speaker proposals for Madison+ Ruby is officially open! What inspires you to be better at what you do? How do you use Ruby in fascinating ways? Don’t miss the April 30th deadline – submit your talk now!
• Cleaned up an association in a client app and made it required instead of optional.

What we’re reading:

• Iron Council - China Mievelle 
• The Diamond Age — Neal Stephenson (again)
• The Bone Shard War - Andrea Stewart
• A Living Remedy - Nicole Chung
• Still reading Developing Apps with ChatGPT and ChatGPT4 possibly for weeks.
• Inciting Joy - Ross Gay
• US sues Apple for illegal monopoly over smartphones - The Verge 
• “Girl Crush” K-pop Idols: A Conversation between Korean, Chinese, and US Aca-fans: Part I 
• The Fifth Season - N. K. Jemisin

What we’re watching:

• The New Look (Apple+)
• Slow Horses S1 (Apple+)
• Mr. Robot (Rotten Tomatoes)
• Shogun (Rotten Tomatoes)
• Tokyo Vice (Rotten Tomatoes)
• Dragon Ball (IMDb)
• Barbie (IMDb)
• From Hot Metal to HTML: The Story of Typography (YouTube), a talk from Dylan Beattie
• The Fifth Element (IMDb) – Yes, again.
• Pokémon Horizons (IMDb)

What we’re listening to:

• Cinema Therapy
• Unheard - album by Hozier
• Dried Flower by Yuuri
• Welcome to the Show by Day6
• You Get Me by Twice
• the Black seminole. - Lil Yachty
• Underground Sound - Joey Valence & Brae 

What we’re interested in:

• More interesting capital-P Patterns, like Contradictory Observations
• What’s the strongest sorcerer subclass, Aberrant Mind or Clockwork Soul
• Baldur’s Gate 3
• Polish movie posters
• Seeing the new Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire movie
• Cats & Soup (mobile game)
• MS Flight Simulator

What we’re struggling with:

• Plex Meta Manager and overlays
• Competing actions on an input field
• Sleep +1
• Broken laptop screen
• Grief and rest
• Improving mile times running

What we’re buying:

• A replacement case for my ISOTunes earbuds, because the current one has been dropped one too many times
• Casio Classic wristwatch
• ETFs
• A memecoin
• External monitor and new Macbook Pro
• Notebooks made using delicious and fountain pen-friendly Tomoe River paper
• A metric set of Forstner bits

What we’re celebrating:

• 50th Delightful Reveal
• Public domain images of old-time cat memes
• Prepping for an art show!
• Finding a buyer for a smooth housing transition
• Spring Equinox
• Going to see Brett Goldstein in Milwaukee
• Spring fly fishing in Northern California
• Kittens!

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