Many voices. One Flagrant.
For our final Delightfully Friday Junior (if you haven’t heard of it yet, learn more here) of the year, the team gathered to make gingerbread houses and other digitally baked scenes. As we weren’t limited to the social integrity of the usual marshmallows and graham crackers, we closed out 2025...
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December 18, 2025
In case you missed it, Flagrant just launched our swag shop! In honor of this, I’m super excited to give you a little BTS of the creation of some of our items and some insight into how this came about. Quick overview of the problem: Finding a way to show and sell our designs. We wanted to
December 15, 2025
I just participated in PiCoSteveMo. What’s that? It’s a month-long game jam for making a PICO-8 game inspired by a Stephen King work. Oh, did that just raise further questions? Hold on. “What’s a game jam?” It’s an event where you try to create a video game from scratch. “What’s
December 12, 2025
Life is a puzzle. You are born, you die and a lot of puzzling stuff happens in between. We here at Flagrant love puzzles. I think the thing I enjoy most about my work is that I get to solve real world puzzles everyday. Sometimes it is trying to figure out how to write a database query,
November 19, 2025
For our 4th Delightfully Friday Junior activity (see more about Delightfully Friday Junior here!) the team embarked on a virtual scavenger hunt. The goal was to use photos from our camera rolls to answer prompts and then share a bit about the photos we share. This activity was designed to get us
November 7, 2025
From a talk I gave on September 20, 2025, at XO Ruby New Orleans. If you use dark mode on any of your devices—or even if you don’t—you’ve probably seen a lot of interfaces and websites in dark themes. Framer, Google Fonts, Linear’s website, and many others showcase dark mode designs, even
November 7, 2025
Delightfully Friday Junior III We have offically done three rounds of Delightfully Friday Junior. Where does the time go? If this sounds new to you, here is our first take - show and tell), and our second take - this or that. Take a gander at these to get the who, what, why, where an when
October 22, 2025
What’s Delightfully Friday Junior, you ask? This is only our second go-round (see our first take—show and tell—here), so you’re forgiven for not knowing. At Flagrant we have different themes to our daily stand-ups, each one focusing on a different vibe, prompt, or mini team-building moment
October 10, 2025
What’s Delightfully Friday Junior, you ask? It’s our new, every-other-Thursday event here at Flagrant—a little experimental, a little silly, and surprisingly educational. Think: doing something fun and lighthearted, only to realize later… oh wait, I actually learned something. We Call That:
September 24, 2025
What we did: Deleting huge amounts of code that was contributing to tech debt Finalized colors for the Rocky Mountain Ruby t-shirt! Started work with Ruby Central and am getting accustomed to their setup/mapping out the requests :D Set up another XO Ruby design book club. We’ll
September 24, 2025
What in the world is ParEdit? Here is the “explain it to me like I’m 5” version: “ParEdit is like a helpful assistant for editing code that uses a lot of parentheses (like in math or some programming languages). It makes sure you never accidentally mess up your parentheses, like leaving one
September 24, 2025
Rspec and testing using capybara: Running my tests and seeing it run live can be super helpful for several reasons but especially when I am encountering a flaky spec. If I am running through the code and the logic makes sense or I have a binding.pry in the code and it is coming back
September 24, 2025
If your server seems stuck or unresponsive, or maybe its telling you there is already a process running but you cant seem to find and shut it down, here’s a quick few-step process to identify and kill the process blocking the port: Find the process using the port: lsof -i tcp:3000 This will
September 24, 2025
Problem: Our current implementation relies on session storage to manage the open “tabs” a user has. The “tabs” are in quotes because this lives on a dashboard and they are actually radio buttons under the hood that are styled to look like tabs. When a user clicks a tab, it interacts
September 24, 2025
What’s a Good Sprint Cadence, Anyway? Sprint length. Estimating work. Getting stories over the line. These are the kinds of things that sound straightforward in theory but, in practice? They can get messy fast. If you’ve ever found yourself in a sprint meeting asking, “Wait, why are we even
