Victor Loux — bookmarks

Warp: The terminal for the 21st century

Habits Garden - Build habits to grow your garden

The fun and effective way to be consistent

Squeaky | The privacy-first customer experience platform

Squeaky's customer insights platform helps you understand exactly how customers are using your website or web app, without invading their privacy.

Hard to work with. | Irrational Exuberance

lethain.com/hard-to-work-with/

Managing teams has taught me a lot about my own behaviors and motivations. For example, I overworked for a long time. This left me continually teetering on the brink of burnout, and I had no energy left to absorb the typical sorts of organizational changes that happen at any company. Despite doing good work, I handled change poorly, and I picked up the reputation for being difficult to manage. I’d like to say that I learned from my mistakes directly, but the honest version is that I ...

Mac external displays for designers and developers, part 2

bjango.com/articles/macexternaldisplays2/

Since writing about Mac external displays in 2016, not much has changed. LG, Dell, Samsung, and other display makers have either never catered for the specs many Mac designers and developers want, or they’ve reluctantly produced products that have been short-lived or compromised.

Developers spend most of their time figuring the system out

lepiter.io/feenk/developers-spend-most-of-their-time-figuri-9q25taswlbzjc5rsufndeu0py/

What does it mean when we say that developers spend most of their time figuring the system out? Why is it important? And how else could we look at this problem?

Understanding Layout Algorithms

joshwcomeau.com/css/understanding-layout-algorithms/

As front-end developers, we often learn CSS by focusing on individual properties. Instead, we should focus on how the language uses those properties to calculate layouts. In this blog post, we'll pop the hood on CSS and see how the language is structured, and how to learn it effectively.

Tripods

tripodsgame.com/

Tripods: a puzzle game

The Book on Accessibility

thebookonaccessibility.com/

Strategies & tactics for accessibility compliance at scale

How To Criticize Coworkers

alexturek.com/2022-03-18-How-to-criticize-coworkers/

I originally wrote this as a doc, and did a talk w/ slides in Fall 2020 at Convoy. This is very focused on how to work in a software engineering team (surprise! that’s most of what I know about!) but I’ve had friends say they’ve shown this to their partners,...