Delightful Reveal #9

There will always be fur in the seats behind us. It will cause unexpected wear on our hybrid car; whether it is worth it is up to us. - Friedrich Nietzsche

What we did:

• Wrestled with Turbo (see: ​​https://github.com/hotwired/turbo/issues/893 and https://github.com/hotwired/turbo/issues/257)
• Two-day offsite for the Flagrant “board” to begin figuring out what to do with our squishy selves and where we can go as a company. Out of country team member flew in to participate in the flesh and meet other team members for the first time
• Tried Paul’s Pel’meni for the first time, a Madison staple food
• Dinner in Madison, WI with several Flagrant Weirdos at Cadré
• Recorded the first episode of our upcoming podcast. Coming soon?
• Reworked a date picker, and a file uploader
• Had a great project retrospective with a client team
• Partnered with EchoBind to kick off a new project 
• Connected with a new team working together for the first time by completing a team manual
• Explored multiple gray color palettes and potential table patterns on a client project (and made a lot of “TAY-BUHLS, IT’S HER JOB. IT’S HOW SHE PAYS FOR HER HOUSE” jokes)
• Explored research plans and methodologies to prep for stakeholder interviews
• Shared facts that folks at EchoBind didn’t know about their own teammates

What we’re reading:

• Permutation City by Greg Egan (StoryGraph)
• What Trees? (Sarah Avenir)
• Four Pillars of Cooperative Governance
• Hearing bird calls linked to lasting mental health benefits (Indiana Health Reporter)
• Nivenly Foundation Seeks More Power for Open Source Creators (The New Stack)
• Gideon the Ninth

What we’re watching:

• Chernobyl
• Homestead Rescue
• The Big Brunch
• Virtual screenings of the New Orleans French Film Festival, specifically Madeleine Collins, yet another incredible performance by Virginie Efira, whose charisma on screen rivals early George Clooney
• Next in Fashion (season 2)
• Insecure

What we’re listening to:

• Flagrant’s International Women’s Day Sway-List (Spotify, Apple Music)
• Nice Try! Interior: The Vacuum
• One Year: 1942 “The day the music stopped” about when musicians across the U.S. refused to make any recordings for more than a year, which indirectly led to the birth of/recordings of Bebop
• Jack and Diane but most of the lyrics are “suckin’ on a chili dog” (YouTube)
• The Coldest Case in Laramie
• Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution
• Remote Ruby - BeagleBones, mRuby, and Devise 4.9 with Hotwire support!

What we’re interested in:

• Math Trades
• Chris’s mug
• Totient functions

What we’re struggling with:

• Redactle will stay down
• Sleep
• Naming things
• Suntzudoku is not a thing
• Trying to remember the word “garbage disposal” and thus was born “sink blender”
• Aging parents and in-laws
• Tsundoku
• Dunting and angry kiln gods, which claimed a sculpture that took 6-8 hours to make 😭😭😭
• A challenging chess battle between Flagranters

What we’re buying:

• Even more books to add to the very large not-read-pile pile
• A cooperatively owned Prius
• Finding a Canadian clothing company that makes clothes from deadstock materials and liking everything they make – Noctex

What we’re celebrating:

• International Women’s Day
• Seeing coworkers in person and sharing meals with them
• Getting outside with friends
• Therapy
• Tennis clinics
• Tsundoku
• Introducing team members to your pets that turn into a sleeping companions and hat. 
• Devise now has Hotwire Support

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