Victor Loux — bookmarks

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

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Convert any website into fully editable Figma designs. Leverage an existing website and import its html to Figma to start your own designs, without building each element from scratch. Powered by story.to.design technology 🚀 🎉 Support us on Product Hunt today 🎉 How it works: Install this plugin...

Developer Roadmaps

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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…

Photoshop for text — Stephan Ango

stephanango.com/photoshop-for-text

When I think about editing images, a vast array of options come to mind: contrast, saturation, sharpen, blur, airbrush, clone stamp, etc. Even basic image ed...

"There Is No Moral Imperative to Be Miserable"

mentalhellth.xyz/p/there-is-no-moral-imperative-to-be

The BuzzFeedification of Mental Health - by P.E. Moskowitz

mentalhellth.xyz/p/the-buzzfeed-ification-of-mental

Did you know that the founder of BuzzFeed predicted that we'd all be yelling at each other about ADHD 25 years ago (kinda)?

Bottleneck #03: Product v Engineering

martinfowler.com/articles/bottlenecks-of-scaleups/03-product-v-engineering.html

Rasterization of coincident edges

wh0.github.io/2019/11/05/rasterization.html

Which emoji scissors close

wh0.github.io/2020/01/02/scissors.html

Strength Training Beginners Guide: How to Make the Workout a Habit - The New York Times

nytimes.com/2022/10/12/well/move/strength-training-beginners-guide.html

For real this time.

Holden Shearer on Twitter: "Here's an idea to carry into 2020: You cannot create or curate a community where everyone is welcome. It's an incoherent, fake goal. It sounds nice but it is categorically impossible. Some people, by their very presence, make a

twitter.com/HoldenShearer/status/1212727688085090305

Lose the Very

losethevery.com/

How to plan? | Kellan Elliott-McCrea

kellanem.com/notes/how-to-plan

Let’s also set aside the question of trade-offs for the moment, except to say, trade-offs are the very heart of engineering and engineering leadership. Software as a medium is so malleable that functionally anything can be made to work. Any language, architecture, approach, style, process, etc can be made to work given sufficient effort. Meaning we find ourselves not asked to choose between right and wrong answers, but between trade-offs.