Delightful Reveal #8

A weekly update on all things Flagrant

By Joyce Jia Hu

March 06, 2023

Suggestion for today’s self care activity: model your stretches based on your pet’s current movements.

Planned and held concept tests with two users. Held a mini-retro during which we updated our “handoff” process between research and design.
Created a discovery plan for a new (to us) product, and began to onboard the team to do it.
Interviewed a few partners to help staff an upcoming project.
Designs for a wizard-like modal experience for adding complex expenses to a trip budget.
Oops, going back to design the empty states for stuff we worked on a few weeks ago and overlooked.
Met with some freelance designers with whom to share work.
Chatted with igitur about music for podcasts, honing your talents, and pursuing passions at any age.
Used a YubiKey for client AWS login.
Started a #drinks channel in Slack but didn’t invite anyone to it without their consent.

Tether elements to each other with CSS anchor positioning by Jhey Tompkins (Chrome Developers)
Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Tales of Extraordinary Women, Volume 1-3 by Francesca Cavallo, Elena Favilli (StoryGraph)
The Absurdity of Bureaucracy: How implementation works by Nina Holm Vohnsen (StoryGraph)
The Manager’s Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change by Camille Fournier (StoryGraph)
19 best ‘Hot Ones’ episodes to binge-watch (Mashable)
Carl Sagan was involved in a top secret plan to nuke the moon (The Whippet)
It’s scarier to talk about what you love than about your failings and vulnerabilities re: special interests (The Whippet)
Plants talk. Plants Listen (NPR)
Devil House by John Darnielle (Devil House Book)

Installing fonts into Figma with consistent baselines and naming conventions
Wet gray days
Icy sidewalks
Redactle is down 😞
Being signed out of Google in the middle of editing this doc
Not being able to play the audio on our HomePod while watching free content on Amazon Prime
Trying to understand why anyone would want paste to default to with formatting
A little turbo gotcha to be aware of. Turbo frames are a bit persnickety. If you submit a form from within a turbo frame it will expect the response to return the same turbo frame. If it doesn’t then you might be asking for trouble. In our case we had a form inside a modal inside a turbo frame and on successful submission we were doing the natural redirect with a flash notice. However, the flash notice was not showing. Turns out we were getting a turbo stream request and then an additional html request and so the flash message was gone for the second request. The solution in our case was to simply add data-turbo-frame: ‘_top’ to the form which is well documented. I just had not run into this situation yet and was not expecting the behavior. There are other ways of dealing with the problem like catching the turbo:frame-missing event. Most important is to know that this gotcha is out there.

“The team, the team!”
Co-worker coming to Wisconsin
Women’s History Month
The Woman King is on Netflix
Self Care with Cody: “Poorly constructed windmills, Modeling your stretches based of your animals current movements”
Making our first rack of lamb
Spending some quality time with family
Finishing a cross-stitch project and starting on a new one
The final weekend of Lifespan of a Fact, a play produced by ABET in Jacksonville Beach, Florida
The word “nibling”, but the aunt/uncle problem is largely unsolved (“pibling” doesn’t get used much)
Going Skiing in the upper peninsula of Michigan with friends for their birthdays
Getting coronated at the dentist:

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