Victor Loux Bookmarks

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Why we should bulldoze the business school | News | The Guardian

theguardian.com/news/2018/apr/27/bulldoze-the-business-school
The long read: There are 13,000 business schools on Earth. That’s 13,000 too many. And I should know – I’ve taught in them for 20 years

Mas Subramanian's Quest for a Billion-Dollar Red

bloomberg.com/features/2018-quest-for-billion-dollar-red/
The world has never had a truly safe, stable, and bright red pigment. The trail may start with YlnMn, the first blue created in two centuries.

Learn to Code for Free – Grasshopper

grasshopper.codes/
Grasshopper is the coding app for beginners. With fun, quick lessons on your phone, the app teaches adult learners to write real JavaScript.

Desperately seeking squircles – Figma Design

blog.figma.com/desperately-seeking-squircles-8eb8db9b654b
This is a story about one Figma engineer’s hunt for the perfect answer to a programming challenge. In a famous 1972 interview, Charles Eames answered a short…

Sure, The Internet Is Broken. So Let’s Go Fix It, Shall We?

shift.newco.co/sure-the-internet-is-broken-so-lets-go-fix-it-shall-we-5c27e294c25c
Over the past year Cloudflare became best known not for the impressive services it has built in the Internet networking space, but for an action taken by its CEO Matthew Prince during the swirl…

Design Systems Repo | A Collection of Design System Resources

designsystemsrepo.com/
An organized and frequently updated collection of Design System examples, resources, tools, articles and videos.

Brutalist design is the bad influence we all need

imaginarycloud.com/blog/why-we-need-web-brutalism/
Like it or not, web-brutalism is moving from something edgy and almost punk to something very mainstream and commercially viable.