Delightful Reveal #50
A weekly update on all things Flagrant
“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.