Delightful Reveal #73

“Have you done your selfie audit?” - overheard at Flagrant

What we did:

• Designed filtering, sorting, pagination, and tagging components for data tables in a client app where users manage a student roster.
• Implemented a bar chart using Chart.js. Created a blank state for charts when no data is available
• Multifile upload using dropzone
• Refining the Flagrant design system’s foundational parts ie typography & color
• Noodling on a client logo potential and gathering inspiration
• Presented the t-shirt design for RailConf 2025, got some feedback on changes, and adjusted accordingly.
• Had lots of discussions about hosting conferences outside of the United States to ease travel concerns for international guests
• Worked on some fun Tilly error page designs for Training Tracker
• Continued to work on a navigation bar redesign
• Designed a new email signature for the Flagrant team to use
• Designed a wireframe prototype for a potential new directory
• Booked travel to Atlanta, GA and Greenville, SC to attend two conferences
• 3/8-3/10 MRO Americas –Shaping the Future of Aviation Maintenance
• 3/10-11 Grok Conf – The unconference for Curious Web Folks
• Wrapped up a big upgrade of data filtering to have the options based entirely on live data and not hard-coded values
• Wired up a React drop down component with custom options with the help of floating-ui
• Implemented a custom Flagrant gmail signature with a script to install it for Flagrant employees
• Tying up final Pave work into a bow 🎁

What we’re reading:

• There Is No Good Card for This: What To Say and Do When Life Is Scary, Awful, and Unfair to People You Love by Kelsey Crowe and Emily McDowell
• The Kept Man by Jami Attenberg
• Spy x Family by Tatsuya Endo
• Homeseeking by Karissa Chen
• Dear Memory by Victoria Chang
• The State of the Art by Iain M. Banks
• ”Proposal about a new way to define gaps”
• Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective by Kenneth O. O. Stanley
• The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin

What we’re playing:

• Stardew Valley—one fish away from achieving perfection!!
• Tears of the Kingdom
• Arma Reforger
• Fruit Tree Spraying
• Lingo 2
• Coup
• Knights in Tight Spaces

What we’re watching:

• Severance S2 +1
• Mayfair Witches S2
• Prime Target
• Abbott Elementary S4 +1
• The Great Pottery Throwdown S8
• The Agency
• Extraction
• Control Freak
• NWSL 2025 season
• Kitchen Nightmares
• Never Stop Blowing Up
• Yellowjackets S3
• Haikyu!!
• Arcane S2
• Blade Runner
• Blade Runner 2049
• Um, Actually

What we’re listening to:

• Bad Gays
• Sierra Ferrell’s Trail of Flowers
• Chappell Roan
• Messy by Olivia Dean (I’ve been obsessed)
• The Skye Boat Song by The Fox + The Hound
• The not so gentle crash of my wallet under the weight of many purchases for apartment furnishings +1
• Eat The Worm by Jonathan Wilson (a couple years old but still on repeat)
• My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante

What we’re interested in:

• Learning about how to build a battle bot
• Birding and data visualization thereof
• Hosting our own video with Jellyfin
• Stacher7 and yt-dlp for downloading videos from YouTube
• How to properly overhand serve in volleyball with higher than a 50% success rate

What we’re struggling with:

• Too many flies came back too soon
• Everything Outside is Beautiful and It Makes My Face Hurt: The Tragedy of Spring in New Orleans
• March
• Wedding planning
• Paradox of excitement and overload of spring outdoor activities

What we’re buying:

• Jabra Evolve2 50 Wired Stereo Headset
• 75 gallon fish tank
• New entertainment system that has bookshelves (fish tank is replacing book shelf and we need more book shelves for allllll the books)
• Gear for my Volleyball Era™️
• sharpening tools to replace what I couldn’t find in the garage mess (Set-up Tools, Vari-Grind Jig)
• New loop pedal 🐷➰🎸
• Babiators

What we’re celebrating:

• Finishing a crocheted star suit for my four-month-old
• Three nights in a row of not being woken up at 4-5am
• Having a nice Saturday family ritual of having lunch at a café downtown and then going to the makerspace
• Got my Antweight battle bot built
• Moved into a new apartment with my partner!
• Sufficient Vitamin D levels for the first time in years
• Successfully moving into a condo!
• Banana bread and nutella
• Trivia night with my partner and friends
• The unknown
• Cats +1

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