May 13, 2024

Between-Spaces and Strange Tunnels

Hey friends,

It was a different type of week last week as the PL/UI team (Platform/User Interface) at Viget got together for an offsite location for several days.

Just a small list of things that occurred:

• Power outage while in an underground tunnel between two buildings. (This tunnel was seriously strange/cool/weird, y'all...) 🔌
• Discussing CMS best practices and how best we can work with Craft and WordPress. 🔮
• Learning pickleball for the first time. 🏓
• Coffee science! ☕
• Getting shot by the sheriff (don't worry, it was a boardgame)... 🔫
• Migrating from Docker Desktop to Orbstack. 🐳
• Inciting people to overthrow imperialist colonizers (also a boardgame)... ✊
• Listening to 11 other very smart people talk shop. 🧠
• Discovery of a room/building that was nothing but closets. ⁉️
• Planning future research initiatives. 🧑‍🔬
• Playing development-themed Family Feud. 😂
• Celebrating a teammate's birthday! 🎂

But most of all, as a remote worker it was really nice to see folks face-to-face.

It's hard to maintain energy as a team remotely. As convenient as remote meetings are, they significantly lower the chance for SOMETHING WEIRD to happen — the types of things that form bonds and inside jokes. Those tend to only happen in the 'between-spaces' of social interactions. I'm thankful we got the space to have some of that 'in-between' time, and I'm thankful to be part of this team at Viget!