Delightful Reveal #65

“What else did I do? DEMOCRACY IN ACTION” - overheard at Flagrant

What we did:

• Exhibited Training Tracker at the Western Wisconsin Women’s Business Conference.
• Visual design experiments to establish a design language for a phonics-based reading app (and looking at a lot of kids’ apps for inspiration)
• Building out the media page for Flagrant’s website
• Starting to work on a design system template so I can learn all of the cool stuff in figma to build a fully featured design system
• Started onboarding with a new client’s React/Rails application
• Built a polymorphic import process using STI and an inheritable ImportJob to keep things DRY.
• Added to the import process to allow users to import RPP data
• Worked on preparing slides and slide templates for the upcoming RubyConf
• Wrote a draft of a blog about Adobe MAX and the speakers I loved
• Learning new video techniques to better capture the events we attend. (LinkedIn Example)

What we’re reading:

• The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Practical Object-Oriented Design by Sandi Metz
• Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
• Napoleon’s Buttons by Jay Burreson and Penny Le Couteur
• Temple of No God by H.M. Long
• Ark Baby, by Liz Jensen

What we’re playing:

• Baldur’s Gate 3
• COD - Black Ops 6
• The new Zelda game
• Scrabble
• Lingo
• Balatro
• Super Auto Pets

What we’re watching:

• Poor Things
• Lower Decks final season
• The Diplomat S2
• What We Do In the Shadows
• The Sympathizer
• The Penguin +1
• The Crucible
• Yellowstone
• The Lincoln Lawyer season 3
• Silent camping vlogs

What we’re listening to:

• Sydney Bechet
• Aurora Nealand and the Royal Roses
• Beartooth
• Shakey Graves
• The Thursday Murder Club, by Richard Osman
• Billie Eilish
• Shoka by Ado
• Mike Birbiglia’s Working It Out
• Ologies
• 99 Percent Invisible
• Allusionist
• Sporkful
• Strong Songs
• Sidedoor
• Life in Seven Songs
• Nice Try!
• Myths and Legends
• Decoder Ring
• Memory Palace
• Twenty Thousand Hertz

What we’re interested in:

• Film developing class
• Starting therapy again +1
• Ikigai
• This horror-themed bookstore

What we’re struggling with:

• Getting Halloween makeup off
• A more needy dog after returning from vacay
• Bodies are fragile
• A 9am appointment turning into a 1:45pm appointment
• Trying to teach kids to take responsibility for their actions
• Focus
• Can’t wake up in the morning +1
• The attitude during this meeting
• Wet wipes that have dried out
• Lingo
• Types
• Counting stitches
• Non-stop migraines
• Popper and TomSelect… Why every JS ecosystem has ‘jiggling’ baked so deep into the process.
• Warmer weather again
• Trying to find one still-lost arrow

What we’re buying:

• A new car…cuz my lease was up
• mooncat nail polish
• Cambro bins for a new sink trap at the clay studio
• …plus a bunch of new little clay tools that I don’t actually need
• Pomegranate socks and noodle washi tape from my pal Sarah Day Arts
• Fruit and cheese label books from Public Knowledge Books
• a bunch of cooking utensils to replace my black plastic ones
• a replacement can opener
• a metal detector

What we’re celebrating:

• Spending time with family on the east coast
• Sweater weather
• Nice people
• Samhain
• Possibly finding board game people in the new area
• Diatoms: A Game of Microscopic Proportions arrived! Excited to play through the first time this weekend
• My sisters birthday (10/30)
• Traveling to another country
• This kudos from a client:
  Even working with FAANG companies I’ve seen bigger teams do much less with a lot more than eight days. – Jonathan, CTO
• Getting a shout out from the conference organizer about our Clarity Conf recap blog post

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