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May 7, 2026
I’ve been putting off writing this for over a month. Turns out I find writing hard. Moving on. We’re into the next cycle of Delightfully Friday Junior. The format: one team member hosts 30 minutes, no work allowed, activity of their choice. Games, creative tasks, questions — whatever they
May 5, 2026
This week’s Delightfully Friday Junior (if you’re catching up on what this is, learn more here) involved a roundtable sharing of some prompted questions. A few of these questions were: “What song have you had on repeat?”, “What cartoon or movie character would you want to meet and why?”, “What
April 20, 2026
This week’s Delightfully Friday Junior (if you’re catching up on what this is, learn more here) involved a roundtable sharing of Rose, Thorn, Bud. It’s a great activity in reflecting and learning about our teammates and the full, rich lives we each lead. Everybody shared at least one Rose,
April 10, 2026
This developer roundtable, Casey showcased learnings from his experience using ClojureScript. He is a senior UI/UX engineer and worked at Flagrant previously. He created a game with ClosureScript called Counterspell that was inspired by Strands, the New York Times game. But first, what is
April 6, 2026
For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been reluctantly using Claude Code. This is “reluctant” for a host of reasons I don’t want to get into at the moment, because I don’t want to turn this into a diatribe or rant, or a series of rants (no promises). Instead, I just want to talk about what I’m
March 20, 2026
Flagrant has been experimenting with spending our internal time / non-client facing time in building meaningful things. Everything from our new Shop page to our Bookshop are artifacts of the team coming together to create our own work. We want to continue creating but when the team is faced with
March 19, 2026
Though I’m not currently disabled, I spent several years of my childhood chronically ill without a diagnosis (followed by emergency surgery and a full recovery). I’ve suffered shoulder injuries that kept me away from my pottery studio and prevented me from lifting grocery bags. Once, I twisted an
March 19, 2026
This time during the Developer Roundtable, we discussed an interesting thought Casey had. The opposite of the No true Scotsman. Anything counts as a Scotsman fallacy No true Scotsman The No true Scotsman is a type of logical mistake where someone changes the definition or criteria of a
February 19, 2026
Delightfully Friday Junior comes for us all, and this time it was my turn. (What’s Delightfully Friday Junior? Check this out.) I thought what we’d do was set up some tier lists for rating things. Rating what? Whatever we wanted! That’s part of the fun of just putting a little bit of structure
February 17, 2026
This week, for the first time, I decided to try out a coding agent using the Zed editor on a free pro trial. As a seasoned developer I have found patterns that suit my pace and personality so there is often resistance to trying out the latest new tool that might disrupt my workflow. Of course,
