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If you took your favorite programming language and then started pulling things out of it, where could you stop? Could you remove variables? Operator precedence? Braces, brackets, parentheses? Function arguments and return values? First off, this seems like a weird thing to think of, even...
Our Flagrant vision is to see our clients and communities be successful as defined by them and to do what we can to make it happen. What we did: Held a findings presentation to summarize our seven-week research and discovery effort. Two discoveries diverged in a wood, and I took the...
Our mission is to bring people together and provide value to our clients and communities. We embrace & invest in communities that share our values, and use technology to improve the lives of those around us. We seek out partners who are similarly inspired to impact the world in...
In Atlanta? Let’s get together We (Jack & Jim) are going to be in town for RailsConf 2023 and are looking to explore a bit of Atlanta. We’re planning to meet up with folks inside Ponce City Market near BOTI WALLA Indian Street Food Tuesday (4/25) at 6PM. Open invite, if you can see...
“I think Glynnis just dragged a bodybag into the room.” What we did: Bought tickets to the Studio Ghibli museum Created a how-to for identifying the ethics of potential clients Interviewed and analyzed findings for user research; created personas to inform our problem statement...
Reminder that while you stare into ChatGPT, ChatGPT is also staring into you (i.e. collecting all the data you send to it). What we did: Kicked off another sprint/cycle with clients, prioritizing our roadmap and defining acceptance criteria Worked with a development partner to get a...
In Everybody is a Drawer I discussed how storytelling relies on framing to help define successes and discover capabilities. If I ask most people to picture someone with a disability, there’s likely an image with someone in a wheelchair. It’s the consensus sign (literally) that someone has lost an...
New week, new opportunities. What delightful work will you get done this week? What we did: Wrestled some more with Turbo. Finally getting it to call uncle by giving it a turbo frame to post to instead of _top Polishing up designs and creating master components so that everything...
From The Bird Nest On An Island, To An Apartment In New York, To Moving Five Times In One Year In Canada I was raised in a very sheltered environment, where I didn’t have to lift a finger and my parents did every single thing for me. Having moved from Trinidad to Canada and being exposed, not...
This week we’re celebrating, on top of everything else, winning work with our client’s customer with their approval. What we did: Drafted a presentation for the company Fixed some decade-old code that was never re-thought when the front-end it supports went from being a web form to...
Sometimes when you’re working on a system, you find something standing in the way of progress that is so baked-in, so foundational, so fundamental that it’s hard to do anything about it. Or it’s even hard to even see at first. I like to call things like these the “original sins” of a system....
Max: “The Gravitron I LOVE, I could just fall asleep in it.” Yossef: “It’s like the biggest weighted blanket.” Interested in attending Flagrant’s Dev Roundtable or our Design Community? Drop us a note via Contact! What we did: Continued loving ViewComponents and adding responsive...
As a fully remote time, hosting a pie-pot-luck is not an option. So our team is celebrating Pi Day by sharing our favorite pie recipes with you. 🥧 Be rational or be pi! “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.” — Carl Sagan Creamy Peanut Butter...
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...
In “Understanding Comics”, Scott McCloud talks about a six-step path that the creation of art goes through. (Just to side-step any philosophical debate on “what is art?”, he himself says “the creation of any work in any medium”, and I’ll rephrase that as “any creative endeavor”. As in any time...