Victor Loux Bookmarks

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‘Best Friends’ Are a Surprisingly Recent Phenomenon

theatlantic.com/family/archive/2022/12/best-friends-monogamous-relationships-competition/672531/
We weren’t always so taken with dynamic duos. But in recent decades, we’ve come to expect that people should have one closest companion.

AI as intern

austinkleon.com/2023/03/22/ai-as-intern/
Kevin Kelly making the case for AI.

Cody Dock Rolling Bridge

thomasrandallpage.com/Cody-Dock-Rolling-Bridge
Cody Dock is a huge ex-industrial dock located off the tidal Lea river. The Dock is now home to a dynamic artistic community who are in the process of transforming the place from dereliction into an oasis of creativity and production. Reopening...

Modern Font Stacks

modernfontstacks.com/
System font stack CSS organized by typeface classification for every modern OS. The fastest fonts available. No downloading, no layout shifts, no flashes — just instant renders.

Response Shaping: How to Move from AI "Prompts" to AI Whispering

danielmiessler.com/blog/response-shaping-how-to-move-from-ai-prompts-to-ai-whispering/
Interacting with AI just became a critical skill. In this short piece, I'm going to show you how I moved away from basic prompts and moved into full

Critical thinking is great, but in a world full of information we need to learn 'critical ignoring'

weforum.org/agenda/2023/02/critical-thinking-ignoring-brain/
Critical thinking helps us to evaluate the information we come across, but it may not be enough in a digital world that contains more information than the world’s libraries combined.

writeout.ai – Transcribe and translate any audio file

writeout.ai/
Transcribe and translate any audio file. Upload your audio file and get a transcript in seconds. Writeout.ai is a free online transcription service.

Capture everything

detail.co/
Record, remix and share high-quality videos using the superpowers of your Mac. Detail works with your iPhone, iPad, built-in webcam, or any other camera.

When is a spacing unit more than a spacing unit?

zeroheight.com/blog/when-is-a-spacing-unit-more-than-a-spacing-unit-in-our-design-systems/
Tired of random or inaccurate spacing used in designs? Tired of seeing your meticulous spacing misinterpreted by the time the site goes live? Have you tried spacing units in your design tokens? There’s more going on here than you might think.