Delightful Reveal #77

A bi-weekly update on all things Flagrant

“in the peanut butter castle, it is I” - overheard at Flagrant

What we did:

Setup configurable open graph images, titles, and descriptions on the Training Tracking marketing pages
Found a way to compare two “indicators”, each comprising three separate sets of four dimensions/values. Hausdorff distance, common table expressions, and cross joins to the rescue!
Created a report showing project workforce hours, per contractor, coming from Section 3 workers.
Created a SliderComponent combining a number input with a range input
Completed a base set of illustrations for a mDL application
Designs for data-dense screens in a mobile application. Simplifying and trimming back is tough when you have huge check lists, summaries, math, expand/collapse, statuses to communicate, and consent all rolled into a single flow
Designed assessment and scoring for student leveling for a learning-to-read application used in classrooms
Set up a dark mode version of a mobile app color palette using a new color system
Had a lovely first session of the Design of Everyday Things book club we’re running
Wrapping up RailsConf signage and swag
Started writing a blog post about the RailsConf 2025 designs and theme
Worked on creating a visual case study for RailsConf 2025
Began sketching ideas for a Flagrant selfie wall
Redesign a ui to improve the experience for campaign managers/candidates so that they have the most useful donor information prepared while they are doing call time for each individual donor on a list
Building giant mushrooms and insects out of cardboard, paper maché-ing them and painting panels for a photobooth

What we’re reading:

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Circe by Madeline Miller
All Fours by Miranda July
Inversions by Iain M. Banks

What we’re playing:

What we’re watching:

Daisy Jones and the Six
Severance: Season 2
Dying for Sex
The Rehearsal Season 2
Parlor Room
Dirilis Ertugrul
John Wick
Gordon Ramsay Secret Service
Sinners
Last of Us: Season 2 +2
Murderbot
Love on the Spectrum

What we’re listening to:

Into the Mystic by Van Morrison
The Circle is Small by Gordon Lightfoot
Fiddler on the Roof, Original Broadway Cast
One Ray Of Shine by Alison Krauss & Union Station
Ketamine by Esther Rose
Thunder by Seventeen
Faithfully by Steve Perry and Willie Nelson

What we’re interested in:

Trick lassoing
Mayan fire hockey
Local makerspace reverting to a volunteer-run and -led organization
14 Minesweeper Variants
Animation
Fragrance science / learning about perfume school
A “traditional and wilderness skills” school

What we’re struggling with:

Time poorness and spinning plates +2
Spinning plates crashing
Finn’s cancer has progressed significantly
Mosquitos / gnats everywhere +1
Grant funding for education and the arts completely disappearing +1
Infected side of fingernail :(

What we’re buying:

Hotels for South Dakota trip in June
Volleyball clinics
Possibly a new car??
Fruit trees!
More supplies for crafting earrings
Native perennials for yard
Cardboard scratchers for the kitties that make it look like they’re riding on a fish
Child proofing things (outlet covers, edge protectors). She on the move folks
Bird identification quick guides as a birthday gift for my dad, who streams a bird feeder camera to his TV (living his best “I’m Retired™️” life tbh)

What we’re celebrating:

Florida liking, neh, LOVING? the in app illustrations that were made before approval (ask for forgiveness etc)
A final multiple-batch crawfish boil/competition with friends to end the season
A lovely kiln unload of a lot of new glaze and surface decoration experiments
Seeing my sister from out of state, and having dinner at my house with all 8 of my siblings + partner
Having a baby that’s at least semi-protected from measles +1
Minnesota Frost won the Walter Cup again in the Professional Women’s Hockey League (PWHL)
Sounds like 2 more teams will be joining the PWHL
Friends coming together to see other friends get married 🌈