Victor Loux — bookmarks

Photoshop for text — Stephan Ango

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.

Lucide

lucide.dev/

Urban foxes: are they ‘fantastic’ or a growing menace?

theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/15/urban-foxes-are-they-fantastic-or-a-growing-menace

On Small Seasons and Long Calendars – Ross Zurowski

rosszurowski.com/log/2018/small-seasons-long-calendars

The Diminishing Returns of Calendar Culture

annehelen.substack.com/p/the-diminishing-returns-of-calendar

Or, The Misery of Monochronic Time

Wake up and smell the fraud : Planet Money

npr.org/transcripts/1119606931

Sometimes online shopping can feel a little unsavory. There are the listings that make you question if you'll really be getting exactly what's advertised. And there's no worse feeling than paying for something and then not getting it. But when Nina Kollars ordered coffee pods and got WAY more than she asked for, it made her feel just as uneasy. Her quest for answers and what it teaches us about a new generation of online fraud. | Subscribe to Planet Money+ in Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org/planetmoney.