Victor Loux Bookmarks

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Your product is a joke - The Paperclip by eesel.app

eesel.app/blog/your-product-is-a-joke
eesel automatically brings together all your work in one place. Google docs, Figma designs, Salesforce opportunities, LinkedIn profiles, Intercom conversations and even custom tools your company built - if it has a URL, eesel can save it.

eesel - All your work in one place

eesel.app/
eesel automatically brings together all your work in one place. Google docs, Figma designs, Salesforce opportunities, LinkedIn profiles, Intercom conversations and even custom tools your company built - if it has a URL, eesel can save it.

Secure login with iCloud Keychain verification codes - WWDC 2021 - Videos - Apple Developer

developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2021/10105/
Learn how you can support on-device verification codes in your app or website for a more secure sign-in experience. We'll explore the...

Always be quitting - jmmv.dev

jmmv.dev/2021/04/always-be-quitting.html
A good philosophy to live by at work is to “always be quitting”. No, don’t be constantly thinking of leaving your job 😱. But act as if you might leave on short notice 😎. Counterintuitively, this will make you a better engineer and open up growth opportunities. A thread 👇.

What the Fastly outage can teach us about writing error messages | OnlineOrNot

onlineornot.com/what-fastly-outage-can-teach-about-writing-error-messages
As developers, we can *definitely* do better than 'Error 503 Service Unavailable' when it comes to error messages. This article shows you how.

Create amazing videos with our online video editor - Mastershot

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Mastershot’s intuitive web-based video editor will have you churning out high quality videos in no time at all. And best of all, it's 100% free!

The Upcoming Remote Work Company Culture War - Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At

ez.substack.com/p/the-upcoming-remote-work-company
Anyway, Anderson is not the first, nor will she be remotely the last, person to bemoan the fact that people don’t want to go back to the office, and in my tiny little walnut brain I am imagining that we’re about to see, as vaccinations climb and people return to normal, a culture war between those that believe workers should be in the office and those who believe that there should be a “hybrid approach,” by which they most likely mean you get a few days a week at home. It’ll start by...

Boris Johnson Knows Exactly What He’s Doing - The Atlantic

theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/07/boris-johnson-minister-of-chaos/619010/
(Several of Johnson’s advisers agreed to be candid in exchange for anonymity.) In an early phone call with Joe Biden, an aide told me, Johnson said he disliked the phrase special relationship after the president used it. To Johnson it seemed needy and weak.

The Third Reich Was Addicted to Drugs | The New Republic

newrepublic.com/article/141125/third-reich-addicted-drugs
At the start of the war, Hitler suffered from gas. Soon, he was taking a cocktail of morphine, crystal meth, and laxatives, a new history reveals.

Jsonmatic

jsonmatic.com/
Transform a CSV (spreadsheet) into a JSON.

The perfect link - The A11Y Collective

a11y-collective.com/blog/the-perfect-link/
There’s more to a link than just a clickable word or image. So, how do you create the perfect link? Rian tells you in our blog!

Want a killer product? Become more opinionated | by Adil Aijaz | Jun, 2021 | Medium

adilaijaz.medium.com/want-a-killer-product-become-more-opinionated-dce7b12bba3e
This is such a common frustration with MS Word. It is so common that I wonder whether I am too dumb to imagine the reason Word has not changed this behavior. Beyond the laughs, there is a product…

An incomplete list of skills senior engineers need, beyond coding | by Camille Fournier | Jun, 2021 | Medium

skamille.medium.com/an-incomplete-list-of-skills-senior-engineers-need-beyond-coding-8ed4a521b29f
For varying levels of seniority, from senior, to staff, and beyond.. “An incomplete list of skills senior engineers need, beyond coding” is published by Camille Fournier.