Last month, the WLCM team was all together in Lviv, Ukraine. Among other activities, we went to the Craft Beer and Vinyl Festival. I tried not to think too much about how much my dad would have loved that festival, and apparently my team could read my mind, because Lilia and Sergey presented me with a beer there I knew...

It’s a downright pleasure to work with Keith Hine and Brian Meares at Orgain Healthcare. Keith and Brian came to us with a desire to bring their web experience for Orgain Healthcare Ambassadors to mobile. They wanted to create a secure and easy way for Ambassadors to easily order samples and to access all of the other informative content Orgain creates to support these providers in their work.

I am often asked for a “rough estimate” of how much apps will cost to build. Here are some basic categories that can help you plan and understand what level of investment your project will require.

I hope the following four categories will help you determine the size of your project, the estimated cost, and the level of professionals you may want to hire to assist you.

Designing apps is about more than functionality. It’s about capturing the spirit and aesthetics of a company as well.

Find out how we took inspiration from Brella’s modern space to create an app that is truly in harmony with the Brella experience.

I’ve got three for you.

The Age of Instagram Face is an article I’ve thought about a lot. Beyond covering the facial manipulation we’re increasingly seeing online, the writer also reflects more generally on social media and specifically Instagram — founded at the beginning of the decade we’re now closing — as powerful engines of sameness, making “hundreds of millions of people learn to ‘see and feel and want the same things.’” I’m looking at you, fiddle leaf fig.

Amy Van Haren, CEO and Founder of Pumspotting talks about how important it is to be able to be able to travel and pump as a working mom.

With short maternity leaves and mommas heading back to work, it’s a full-time job to juggle pumping, working and your home life.

Discover more on this unique solution that Amy has discovered.

This issue is a hats off to two freedom fighters and one odd bird.

Gesell believed money should lose value the longer it sits in the bank. His idea makes my brain explode a bit trying to consider the implications. Try it for a second.

Lyubov Sobol is around my age, and also a mother, and her bravery gives me goosebumps. I’ve linked to two articles about her that take slightly different angles. Sobol is worth seeing from more than one.

This week brings histories I thought I knew — revised.

- All dinosaurs on the planet died in a matter of hours. All of them.
- Republicans were the first to argue and pass legislation to limit individuals’ right to bear arms in the US. 

Those would be spoilers except… when you sink into the details of both stories, it gets more interesting. A lot more interesting.

I’m not a collector of things generally, but I dutifully hoard my back issues of NatGeo, just like my Grandpa Grimm before me. I pulled the article on bird brains from one of them. After you read it, you won’t look at the birds in your life the same way again.

Also linked is a podcast to listen to when you have 30 minutes in the car, and a very long article about a 17-year-old who I think is very interesting.

I’ve re-launched under a new name, with a new site, wlcm.studio. We’re now WLCM (pronounced “Welcome”), a rearrangement of the original initials with an additional “m”.

I also had a baby in the interim, and this re-brand feels a bit like a re-emergence at the same time, or at least an excuse for one.

My mom used to save all the bread bags for me because I liked to fill them with rocks.

I grew up in a little town in Ohio, so my pickings were not all gravel but mostly gravel. I essentially curated the best of the gravel. You know those super sparkly, dusty white gravel rocks? Loved those. 

If you’ve stepped foot on pumpspotting’s 40-foot nursing and pump suite, then you know she’s more than an RV. Lovingly called Barb, the Breast Express is a hub for connection and community-building, a nurturing haven for breastfeeding moms, and the real-life embodiment of the pumpspotting app.