Victor Loux — bookmarks

We are going into Battle against Trump. Here’s How to Fight for Harris

katemanne.substack.com/p/we-are-going-into-battle-against

No one buys books

elysian.press/p/no-one-buys-books

Everything we learned about the publishing industry from Penguin vs. DOJ.

Taylor Swift does not exist

samkriss.substack.com/p/taylor-swift-does-not-exist

A letter from within a letter and a name from within the names and gaps from within the revealed

humour, tag
essay, tag
4 days ago

Trekking Across Switzerland, Guided by Locals’ Hand-Drawn Maps (Gift Article)

nytimes.com/interactive/2024/07/17/travel/switzerland-local-maps.html

Nostalgic for a time before ubiquitous connectivity, a writer ditched his phone and relied instead on serendipity — and maps made by people he met along the way.

The puzzle as propaganda

africasacountry.com/2024/07/the-puzzle-as-propaganda

At the height of African decolonization, radical writers turned to interactive features like competitions and quizzes to engage their audiences.

This Crystal Fragment turns everything you see into 8-bit Pixel Art, and it’s FASCINATING

yankodesign.com/2024/07/04/this-crystal-fragment-turns-everything-you-see-into-8-bit-pixel-art-and-its-fascinating/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4VN2ZZZT9c&feature=youtu.be There is no denying that modern graphic resolutions have reached unachievable heights. Yet, there are many with an emotional connect to pixelated style: an art form that rekindles memories of early computers and video game graphics. If you’re one of them, who rejoices the blurring the lines between analog and digital, you can (when

Why users are ignoring your features

builtformars.com/case-studies/monzo-perks

Simple techniques to increase feature usage, retention and ultimately alter how users perceive the value of your product.

I Was Diagnosed With Autism in My 40s. It Gave Me a Lot of Answers.

thecut.com/article/mary-hk-choi-adult-autism-diagnosis.html

jj init — Sympolymathesy, by Chris Krycho

v5.chriskrycho.com/essays/jj-init/

vcs, tag
git, tag
2 weeks ago

Starmer may be the son of a toolmaker, but he speaks for a very different class – and that’s a problem for Labour | Dan Evans | The Guardian

theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/03/keir-starmer-son-toolmaker-but-different-class-problem-for-labour

ENGINE SOUNDS

markeasting.github.io/engine/

The Joy of Reading Books You Don't Entirely Understand

reactormag.com/the-joy-of-reading-books-you-dont-entirely-understand/

It really should be acceptable and normal to say “I don’t entirely understand what I just read, but I loved it.”

vslavik/diff-pdf · GitHub

github.com/vslavik/diff-pdf

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diff, tag
2 weeks ago

Omnivore

omnivore.app/

Research Techniques

submittedforyourperusal.com/2015/07/14/research-techniques/

Primarium – Handwriting education in primary schools

primarium.info/

Adam Curtis on the Dangers of Self-Expression

thecreativeindependent.com/people/adam-curtis-on-the-dangers-of-self-expression/

BBC journalist and the documentarian behind HyperNormalisation, Adam Curtis, discusses art, individualism, power, myth, and the complications of self-expression.

Who Am I Without My Voice?

nytimes.com/2024/06/12/magazine/losing-voice-singer.html

I was a singer heading out on tour. Losing my voice was terrifying — but it ended up teaching me everything about myself.

Probabilistic Tic-Tac-Toe | Cameron Sun

csun.io/2024/06/08/probabilistic-tic-tac-toe.html

Finding the Hardest Spelling Bee Puzzle

christopherwolfram.com/projects/spelling-bee/

The Spelling Bee is a word puzzle published daily by The New York Times. The rules are very simple, which got me thinking about generating puzzles automatically. In this project, I created a metric for measuring the approximate difficulty of Spelling Bee puzzles, which I used to study the space of all Spelling Bees. In particular, I found the easiest and hardest puzzles, and also looked at how the subset of human curated puzzles published by The New York Times fit into the broader space.