Victor Loux — bookmarks

The truffle industry is a big scam. Not just truffle oil, everything

tasteatlas.com/truffle-industry-is-a-big-scam

There is a good joke: because of sanctions against Russia, the price of tartufata will increase. I may not be objective about the quality of the joke, as I invented it, but the fact is: what is sold as truffle flavor is 2,4-dithiapentane, an organosulfur compound that is naturally found in truffles, and though it is practically impossible to extract it from truffles, it can be extracted from oil.

Joseph Ford | Invisible Jumpers

josephford.net/project/knitted-camouflage/grid

Railroad Ink

ondras.github.io/rri/

How Did We Get So Obsessed with Streaks?

annehelen.substack.com/p/how-did-we-get-so-obsessed-with-streaks

Good and bad gamification with Adrian Hon

I hate MVPs. So do your customers. Make it SLC instead. – @ASmartBear

blog.asmartbear.com/slc.html

Craft — PaulStamatiou.com

paulstamatiou.com/craft/

Thoughts on elevating product quality

Documentation · OpenRefine

openrefine.org/documentation.html

Variability, Not Repetition, is the Key to Mastery - Scott H Young

scotthyoung.com/blog/2022/10/26/variable-mastery/

Barilla | Passive Cooking

barilla.com/en-gb/passive-cooking

Pinboard on Twitter: "There's a disconnect between critiques of Telegram and its practical use that have made me uneasy about joining technical pile-ons around how it's not really encrypted messaging. Let me use the example of Telegram use in the Hong Kon

twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1474096410383421452

A Visual Bibliography of Tree Visualization

treevis.net/

The icy village where you must remove your appendix

bbc.com/future/article/20180810-villas-las-estrellas-antarctica-base-residents-surgery

There’s a settlement in Antarctica with a school, a post office and a huddle of homes. It’s like other sub-zero villages, except for one thing: families must have surgery to move in.

Business Rapper Was Bad at Bitcoin Laundering - Bloomberg

bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-02-09/business-rapper-was-bad-at-bitcoin-laundering

The Only Crypto Story You Need, by Matt Levine

bloomberg.com/features/2022-the-crypto-story/

Where it came from, what it all means, and why it still matters.

A Museum Security Expert on How to Protect Great Art - The Atlantic

theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/10/van-gogh-tomato-soup-national-gallery-london/671764/

A museum-security expert admits that “it’s pretty darn hard to protect a painting from somebody throwing a can of soup at it.”

html.to.design – Figma

figma.com/community/plugin/1159123024924461424/html.to.design

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Developer Roadmaps

roadmap.sh/

Focus Is Saying No To Good Ideas - Commoncog

commoncog.com/focus-saying-no-to-good-ideas/

Sound – Bartosz Ciechanowski

ciechanow.ski/sound/

When life gives you lemons, write better error messages | by Jenni Nadler | Sep, 2022 | Wix UX

wix-ux.com/when-life-gives-you-lemons-write-better-error-messages-46c5223e1a2f

Error messages are part of our daily lives online. Every time a server is down or we don’t have internet, or we forget to add some info in a form, we get an error message. “Something went wrong” is…