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This week during our Developer Round Table, Yossef shared some information with the group about API development he’d been doing recently for a client, along with some of the different tools a developer has available for testing an API and showcasing that testing to a client. He walked through curl , httpie , and Demo Magic (including his own wrapper around Demo Magic), based on real examples from…
You know what’s weird? CSS is everywhere, pretty much on every website and yet, there’s this attitude about CSS that persists that it doesn’t need to be taken seriously; it’s just icing on a cake. Casey brought this up at a Developer Round Table discussion, and it hit home. There’s this vibe that CSS is just… weird, or “not real code.” And I get it, a lot of us lived through the ‘try it in every…
Here at Flagrant, we’re big fans of our fur babies and critters alike (we even have a dedicated Slack channel to share photos with each other). This week’s Delightfully Friday Junior is brought to you by our unconditional love for the non-human brethren in our lives and a healthy dose of artistic flair and critique.
A couple of months ago, I wrote about starting to use Claude Code . I’m still there, still living in Claudeville. I’m still feeling plenty of things, including being conflicted in many ways. And it all comes down to energy use — that is, what energy I have to dedicate to this work. The biggest thing that I’m feeling now relates to my position as a consultant, not “just a developer”. Being a…
When it was my turn to plan the DFJ activity, I wanted to make something that would allow us to relax together, take our minds out of work mode, and just get into the flow of creating without stress. When I think about times when I was the most relaxed and in the creative flow, I think about these huge coloring pages my dad would buy for my sisters and I at the Woodmans near my childhood home.…
Herb , created by Marco Roth , is a new HTML-aware ERB parser designed to improve developer tooling for Rails view templates. Unlike traditional parsers that either ignore embedded Ruby or modify the original HTML, Herb understands both HTML and ERB simultaneously while preserving the source exactly as written. This makes it fast, error-tolerant, and suitable for real-time editor features. By…
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 want. I opened the first round. Since then, two other people have hosted, and both landed on the same instinct…
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 is the most beautiful place you’ve been?”, “What was your first job?” and “What’s a hobby or activity…
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, Bud, Thorn from their past week. A Rose is a highlight, success, small win, or something positive that…
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 ClojureScript? ClojureScript lets developers write code in a style known as functional programming, and then…
