Delightful Reveal #80

“I have three therapists and I’m working through it …” - overheard at Flagrant

What we did:

• Designing variations of mobile screens for a mobile driver license application
• Skill-sharing and learning about other client projects—cross-pollination on the design side
• Revisiting/redesigning a glossary/translation feature for a children’s reading app. New technical constraints were discovered, so back to the drawing board!
• Added a “Load More” button instead of pagination using turbo frames
• Implemented a “Read More” stimulus controller for showing more content
• On Training Tracker added a feature allowing users to configure the columns present on their index pages.
• Building out the beginning of a design system with years of random components
• Implemented a hashtag search feature

What we’re reading:

• The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong
• Nourishing Resistance: Stories of Food, Protest, and Mutual Aid by Wren Awry
• This Poison Heart by Kalynn Bayron
• Maybe an Artist by Liz Montague
• Pachinko by Min Jin Lee (probably finishing it today!)
• Skim by Mariko Tamaki
• Murderbot by Martha Wells
• Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

What we’re playing:

• Fallout 4
• The Sims 4 Decades Challenge
• Pokemon Violet
• Viticulture

What we’re watching:

• Severance S1
• The Good Place
• Queer Ultimatum S2
• Task Master
• Murderbot
• The Old Guard 2
• Sinners
• Upload S1
• JURASSIC WORLD: REBIRTH
• Inception

What we’re listening to:

• The new Lorde album
• Shakey Graves
• Cool It Down by Velvet Underground
• Avant Gardener by Courtney Barnett
• Rox In The Box by The Decemberists

What we’re interested in:

• 5-1 volleyball rotations

What we’re struggling with:

• Started a new bouldering training protocol. (i.e. i’m sore)
• How much more cardio there is when running 5-1 rotations

What we’re buying:

• More fragrance decants from Scent Split
• Workout equipment
• Finger painting kit, unicorn rocking horse
• Record player
• More coffee for roasting

What we’re celebrating:

• A successful kitty meet and greet with a friend’s cat unlocking some confidence we can adopt another one soon. Our cats were very chill about it and perfect angels.
• A little baby turning 1.
• Cato is okay after ingesting a pill that was not his

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