Double Shot

Ray rants about how “passionate” he becomes about the design of web apps, in particular their font choices, and Kandace tries to talk him down a bit. Also a bit of reflection on why Dropbox Paper is such an enjoyable product. LINKS: * Ray’s Medium post about Dropbox Paper [https://medium.com/needmore-notes/dropbox-paper-will-set-us-free-811421d7c566] * Dropbox Paper itself [https://www.dropbox.com/paper] * What is, and how to use, a system font stack [https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/system-font-stack/] * Stylebot, the plugin Ray uses to change fonts on some websites [https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylebot/oiaejidbmkiecgbjeifoejpgmdaleoha]

We talk about equality in our society, consequences and personal experiences with #metoo, some of Kandace’s experiences being a woman in the workplace, and how we relate at Needmore. LINKS * Kandace’s recording of River Tsunami [https://brigleb.com/river-tsunami-rock/] * Boss Barista podcast [http://bossbarista.com] * Gaslighting (defined) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslighting] * Straight White Guy Listening podcast [https://www.swglistening.com]

Recently Ray decided to contribute to the Standard Ebooks project, to take some of his favorite free books from Project Gutenberg and turn them into attractive digital publications. Yet things didn’t quite turn out as he expected, and now he’s struggling to finish the work. We find out what obstacles he ran into, and what he should do next. LINKS * Standard Ebooks [https://standardebooks.org] * Project Gutenberg [https://www.gutenberg.org]

Kandace talks about learning to embrace rejection and learn from “rejection therapy”, and Ray talks about learning to mix music and how it’s made him appreciate well-mixed music a lot more. LINKS * Rejection Therapy [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rejection_Therapy] * Audio Mixing [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_mixing_(recorded_music)] * Ray’s music online [https://brigleb.com]

We discuss how our methods of designing websites that need to be updateable has evolved, and how we’ve leveraged the Advanced Custom Fields plugin to craft a better experience for our clients and for website visitors. We also discuss the tradeoffs of different approaches, and what we believe the sweet spot to be. LINKS * Advanced Custom Fields [https://www.advancedcustomfields.com] * Saké One [https://sakeone.com]