Victor Loux Bookmarks

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Inclusive Components

inclusive-components.design/
A blog trying to be a pattern library. All about designing inclusive web interfaces, piece by piece.

Ocean Vuong on being generous in your work

thecreativeindependent.com/people/ocean-vuong-on-being-generous-in-your-work/
Ocean Vuong is an American poet and essayist based in New York City. Even though his most recent book, 2016’s Night Sky with Exit Wounds, was a collection of poems, Vuong is now engaged in the task of writing what he calls “the ghost of a novel.” His work is predicated on the notion that both reading and writing are acts that require generosity and a willingness to explore.

spatie/laravel-medialibrary: Associate files with Eloquent models

github.com/spatie/laravel-medialibrary
Medialibrary is a Laravel (5.4 and up) package that can associate all sorts of files with Eloquent models. It provides a simple, fluent API to work with.

“How many users do you have?” – Standard Journal

journal.standardnotes.org/how-many-users-do-you-have-809abeb60bad
Invariably, when I tell someone about the project I’m working on, they’ll ask: “how many users do you have?” Sometimes, it’ll come up as the first point in a conversation — bold, directed…

Stark

getstark.co/
The colour-blind simulator and contrast checker for Sketch. Design with accessibility in mind.

Own, Apologize, Repair: Coming Back to Integrity

norasamaran.com/2016/08/28/variations-on-not-all-men/
There is a variation on ‘Not All Men.’ It is called ‘I Feel Bad When You Say That.’ My godson Kyle is six. He is fairly emotionally perceptive for his age, as his grownups have been working with him to create an emotionally responsible and self-aware boy who we hope will grow into an emotionally…