Delightful Reveal 7

me: why isn’t the logger working?

g: it’s nighttime.

me: what?

g: it’s a logger.

me: …what?

g: it’s a logger. a lumberjack.

me: …

g: it sleeps all night and it works all day.

me: OH MY GOD.

Monty Python - Lumberjack Song

What we did:

• Met with John Samuelson from Earthling Interactive in Madison
• Met with Garrett Peterson from Yahara Software in Madison
• Got stuck in Madison due to weather
• Met with our client to discuss taking on an additional project
• Spent some time pairing on how to slim down Docker images overly bloated with unneeded binaries
• Participated on the Madison College Board to make curriculum changes to the web design program so that they can teach their new students current needs in UX/UI/Human Factor and tooling. 
• Iterating on how to create subfilters to represent a sales flow / engagement flow so that users can accurately message subsets of people. 
• Wrote a RailsConf talk proposal

• Designing a stained glass window to collaboration with my(Kelly’s) mom

  • Then coming up with her business name so she can go legit

What we’re reading:

• Cage of Souls by Adrian Tchaikovsky (StoryGraph) 
• The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin (StoryGraph)
• Death’s End by CiXin Liu (StoryGraph)
• Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man by Emmanuel Acho (StoryGraph)

What we’re watching:

• BattleBots 2019 season (no spoilers)
• Dynamic Select Fields in Rails using Hotwire
• Only Murders in the Building
• Picard S3
• Shrinking
• Man vs. history
• Rewatching the Mandalorian Season 2 to prepare for the new season next week (March 1, 2023) 

What we’re listening to:

• Noir by Yelle (Spotify)
• Songs from the Big Chair by Brothertiger (Tears for Fears covers)
• The Bing Who Loved Me (NYTimes)
• Gloria by Sam Smith (Spotify)

• Sharing all of our foreign music choices for maximum concentration

  • Yelle
  • Fela Kuti
  • Epik High
  • Gamelan Orchestra
  • Os Mutantes (Spotify)
• One Year: 1942 - The Day the Music Stopped (Slate podcasts) 

What we’re interested in:

• Watching Yossef try to write bulleted list items in a Google Doc
• Heads down in the creative flow
• Exhaustive list of hobbies
• Crushing red dots in Slack like they’re bubble wrap

What we’re struggling with:

• 14” of snow with 18” more forecast over the weekend.
• Chewing bubble gum and walking at the same time
• Layers of ice
• Naming things - Businesses, css classes, MICROCOPY for clients
• Words in general
• Solving story supply chain bottlenecks

What we’re buying:

• Sichuan Chili Crisp & Lao Gan Ma
• a back scratcher
• Raccacoonie

What we’re celebrating:

• Throwing rice at bean royalty by our own SPF covered koi fish. Happy Lundi Gras! 
• Getting new glasses, and this time I’ll definitely clean them well and not scratch them up
• First brown thrasher song of the year (must be heard in the wild for full experience)

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