Delightful Reveal #58

“A matchbook is technically a book, no take backs!” - overheard at Flagrant

What we did:

• Designed a fabulous sign up flow for an AI product for developers. 
• Prepared multiple print assets for Madison+ Ruby and talked to a bunch of printers about materials and deadlines
• Met with a new client to go over their needs for a new logo and then began brainstorming some ideas based on our conversation.
• Dug deeply into Multiple Database Support in Rails to help with a migration away from active_record_slave as part of Rails 6+ upgrade
• Created a Module concern designed to be used with prepend to wrap ActiveJob perform methods as a block. 
• Send Training Tracker designs to print
• Working on design and content strategy on a marketing website for the Improv Effect
• Hosted a Madison+ Ruby meetup in the Cisco Meraki offices in Manhattan reminding people that they like getting together in-person with like minded people.
• Changed a CSV import process from a slow (with large files) direct passthrough to a direct file upload (not even using a webhook!)
• Created themes for a client’s UI library using Figma’s Variable Modes after defining a color system for them

What we’re reading:

• Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
• Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
• The House in The Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
• Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
• Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know by Adam M. Grant
• Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet by Hannah Ritchie
• Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock by Jenny Odell

What we’re playing:

• Little Alchemy 2
• Hogwarts Legacy 
• Pocket City 2
• Trash (card game)
• Flamecraft

What we’re watching:

• Tour de France
• Taskmaster NZ Season 2 (again)
• Below Deck
• Ghostbusters (1984)
• The Boyz: Season 4 +1
• The Acolyte (begrudgingly)
• Total Forgiveness
• Game Changers
• Doc Martin (Season 8)
• 3 Body Problem
• Exploding Kittens
• 18th century embroidery is NO JOKE. (Trust me, we tried it.)
• Garak and Bashir meet, credit to @wellsbering on twitter

What we’re listening to:

• Off Menu — Nick Mohammed
• On the Road Again by Willie Nelson
• Strong Songs — “Just What I Needed”, “Everybody Wants to Rule the World”
• The Pivot Podcast
• Fela Kuti
• Folsom Prison Blues by Johnny Cash
• 99% Invisible Breakdown of The Power Broker, a veritable tome of a biography on Robert Moses
• Strange Disciple - Nation of Language
• Boom Boom Base by Riize
• Say by Keshi
• The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride

• Songs in Simlish

  • Katy Perry - Last Friday Night in Simlish
  • Paramore - Pressure (Simlish version) 

What we’re interested in:

• Hiking California’s Trinity Alps +1
• Retired women’s walking groups for my mom. Mom needs new friends and is painfully shy.
• Finding more time to go kayaking
• Fern propagation
• Art Fair on the Square is this weekend in Madison, WI
• Blackpink’s Lisa Launches Her Own Management Company, LLOUD

What we’re struggling with:

• Mosquitos. Wisconsin’s unofficial state bird
• Mold in the basement
• Termites in the foyer
• Humidity
• React (+1)
• Cutting my dog’s nails. 
• Fly casting in wind
• 0.08 mbps internet speed
• Remembering to breathe

What we’re buying:

• Resin molds
• A cute little patch display
• So much bug spray
• a great honkin’ huge dehumidifier

• Even more books on the Wiener Werkstätte: 

  • Die Fläche: Design and Lettering of the Vienna Secession
  • Wiener Werkstätte Jewelry
  • Josef Hoffman 1870-1956
• A cooler bag that attaches to a bike for those long days at the Lake

What we’re celebrating:

• Only a few more weeks until Madison+ Ruby!!!
• Went to Moulin Rouge at the Overture Center with my mother and bff, sang songs, enjoyed the amazing costumes and great set design. 
• Making new connections in NYC
• Michael Moura’s aggregated list of Ruby on Rails jobs
• An imminent visit to the Pacific Northwest
• Settling in nicely and making connections in the new community
• Oliver turning 6 years old! 🎂🐶🎉

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