Many voices. One Flagrant.

December 18, 2023

“I don’t know why I have the ‘yeehaws’ this morning and I’m sorry dude.” What we did: Finished a blog post on styling disabled buttons with Hotwire Learned about using nip.io to allow me to use my mobile device while testing on my local environment Wrestling with inline

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Jack Permenter

December 12, 2023

One cool feature that comes with Turbo are Eager Loaded Frames. By simply adding a src attributes to your turbo frame Turbo will make an asynchronous request to the given url when the turbo frame is rendered on the page. This simple feature while powerful in itself can be the jumping off point

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Jonathan Greenberg

December 6, 2023

It’s Wednesday. You’ve passed your Tuesday code-freeze because the project you’ve been working on for 6 months is about to be introduced for the first time at an industry event to hundreds of new users. The sales team is going to be talking individually with dozens of potential clients one-on-one

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Jim Remsik

December 4, 2023

“Here’s the problem with humans…” What we did: Had a 1x1 with a client to check in on progress and talk about resourcing in the new year. Used Ahoy gem to keep track of user events and created tables and graphs to meaningfully showcase those events. Held a planning meeting and

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Jack Permenter

November 30, 2023

I switch between projects all day. The projects I am switching between use different node versions. Here is an example of what it looks like when I switch projects. cjb/really_good_code/older_project $ cd ../shiny_new_project cjb/really_good_code/shiny_new_project $ bin/dev [ERROR]

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Cody Brooks

November 20, 2023

“Great minds don’t bamboozle alike” What we did: (Soft-)Launched Madison Ruby 2024 website Attended RubyConf 2023 in San Diego! Guided Jarrod through his first conference and helped him craft a Lightning Talk which he presented Met and talked with a lot of talented early

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Joyce Jia Hu

November 6, 2023

“You know how sometimes you get your bones vibrated?” What we did: Untangled a mess of spaghetti code that handled everything involving the “scope” of a “collection” in a client app (i.e. the search, filtering, pagination, and sorting of a list). Described (and visualized) how users

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Jack Permenter

October 26, 2023

Problem: Our current implementation relies on session storage to manage the open “tabs” a user has, and this is leading to improper functioning of the link_to anchor. To provide some context, we offer three tab options that users can click on to display distinct sets of information. Here is

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Amanda Klusmeyer

October 23, 2023

“It’s like /dev/null, but for people.” What we did: Released a new episode of Dev Roundtable on our Youtube! Checked in with our earliest adopter Translated our collaborative sketching from our on-site into slightly-higher fidelity versions Began to wind down the most

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Jack Permenter

October 11, 2023

Psst… You can use FactoryBot to test Plain ole Ruby Objects. So go ahead. Extract a PORO. Write a spec. Guaranteed to give you that ‘I made my bed today’ kind of feeling. # app/models/arrow_down.rb class ArrowDown # Build an arrow beginning at @from and ending at @to # from |-╮ |

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Cody Brooks

October 9, 2023

“What have I told you about listening to inanimate objects?!” What we did: Started to socialize a presentation for a team-wide management retro. Held a two-day on-site with a client in Madison, WI. Prioritized ambitious user stories (epics) for on-site discussion. Reviewed

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Jack Permenter

October 2, 2023

“You can’t scare me, I’m into math.” What we did: Signed an agreement to work with Metis Communications to help get the word out about about our people Represented at Friendly.rb, Your Friendly European Ruby Conference, in Romania Delivered a proposal to a nearly 50 year-old

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Joyce Jia Hu

September 25, 2023

“My mind palace is too full of penguins to hold any user data.” What we did: Saw co-workers in person! Generated a Driver’s Citation Report to assist companies in keeping track of Driver Performance.  Added a User Action audit log to a client app Sketched ideas for a

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Joyce Jia Hu

September 18, 2023

“I think we’re caught in an infinite honk loop.” What we did: Held a multi-product-team workshop focused on concept modeling, as well as a follow-up meeting. Identified shared questions and next steps. Held a research-alignment workshop to agree on the user needs we need to address

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Joyce Jia Hu

September 11, 2023

“I’m just going to put my computer in a ring of salt so the AI can’t get it.” What we did: Replaced a third party input mask with a custom currency input component wrapped with dollar-sign icons.  Connected with our product stakeholder to learn more about their administrative

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Jack Permenter