Delightful Reveal #78

“At the end of the day: capitalism.” - overheard at Flagrant

What we did:

• Employed dialogs with the help of hotwire to manage context menus, drawers and slideouts.
• Designed a modal to complete a donation and payment processing
• Creating a new proposal layout and design for potential clients in campaign fundraising
• Started a workshop with the team to rough out ideas and processes for project life cycles
• Finished a two-sided selfie wall for Flagrant to bring to RailsConf
• Started working on a process to interview team members about the work they do at Flagrant for social media
• Created a holiday card (I know it’s super early!!) for Training Tracker
• Revised the Training Tracker export report process, removing dependencies on ActionCable, and Redis.
• Designed a data-heavy screen with sticky headers and scroll effects for a mobile app
• Ordered and picked up Training Tracker half-sheets

What we’re reading:

• Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
• My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry by Fredrik Backman
• The Crane Husband by Kelly Barnhill
• Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
• 1-2-3 Magic by Thomas W. Phelan (a Parenting book wishing it was a Magic book)

What we’re playing:

• Innovation Ultimate (soon)
• Chess
• Scrabble
• Diatoms
• Candlelit D&D campaigns with friends

What we’re watching:

• Severance S1
• The Good Place
• Brokeback Mountain
• Deli Boys
• Murderbot
• Neon Genesis Evangelion
• Dirilis Ertugrul
• Taskmaster
• Very Important People
• Ted Lasso S3

What we’re listening to:

• Better Than Ever by TajMo
• Nice to Each Other by Olivia Dean
• Nettles by Ethel Cain
• Elevator by Baekhyun
• Sabrina Carpenter
• 99 Percent Invisible: What Trump Can Teach Us About Con Law
• Decoder Ring: The Glaring Problem with Headlights
• Decoder Ring: How Books About Things That Changed the World…Changed the World
• This American Life ep: 484 Doppelgangers

What we’re interested in:

• Heat Lightening
• Capycorns +1

What we’re struggling with:

• Time
• Car brakes pulsing in the back so needed to book a last minute appointment on Monday before the trip on Wednesday
• Week from hell - most of the things that could’ve gone wrong, did go wrong this week
• Our government +10001
• Saying goodbye to a great couple’s therapist I’ve been working with for 3+ years (she’s downsizing her practice)

What we’re buying:

• A carbon steel wok
• Dutch oven
• A thermostatically controlled heating pad for incubating yoghurt
• Tickets to Alberta
• Lots of tiny samples of fragrances to test out from a decanting service
• A big haul of secondhand clothes from ThredUP
• Hotel rooms for South Dakota trip
• A pack & play black out curtain

What we’re celebrating:

• The scaffolding in front of my apartment building finally coming down
• Starting volleyball clinics
• Going to a family reunion
• Madison Reading Project: Read(y) to Wear fundraising event was successful. Now for my freetime to return
• Finn’s big tumor shrunk and his blood report came back good
• Reconnecting with high school besties after 10 years passed in an instant
• Studio night with pottery studio mates—we got to catch up! And the next day we got invited as a collective to sell at a big local holiday market

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