Victor Loux Bookmarks

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readme.so - Easiest Way to Create A README

readme.so/
Use readme.so's markdown editor and ready made templates to easily create a simple README for your repositories

They Hacked McDonald’s Ice Cream Machines—and Started a Cold War | WIRED

wired.com/story/they-hacked-mcdonalds-ice-cream-makers-started-cold-war/
Secret codes. Legal threats. Betrayal. How one couple built a device to fix McDonald’s notoriously broken soft-serve machines—and how the fast-food giant froze them out.

Internet Search Tips · Gwern.net

gwern.net/Search
Finally, you can always try to contact the author. This only occasionally works for the papers I have the hardest time with, since they tend to be old ones where the author is dead or unreachable—any author publishing a paper since 1990 will usually have been digitized somewhere—but it’s easy to try.

Basic Music Theory in ~200 Lines of Python | Manohar Vanga

mvanga.com/blog/basic-music-theory-in-200-lines-of-python
A basic introduction to Western music theory using the Python programming to derive scales, chords, and modes in every key.

The Ultimate Guide to Copywriting

neilpatel.com/blog/ultimate-guide-to-copywriting/
Killer copy is the backbone of marketing. In this post you'll learn some copywriting tips and find out how to create copy that converts visitors into customers.

Gnome shortage: Lockdown and Suez canal blockage blamed - BBC News

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-56748561
A garden centre "boom" coupled with supply chain delays are making the ornaments hard to come by. + https://www.lemonde.fr/big-browser/article/2021/04/17/penurie-de-nains-de-jardin-au-royaume-uni-apres-les-confinements-successifs_6077134_4832693.html

Is content moderation a dead end? — Benedict Evans

ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2021/4/13/is-content-moderation-a-dead-end
Facebook struggles with harmful content just as Microsoft struggled with malware 20 years ago. Content moderation is the new virus scanning. But virus scanning wasn’t the answer - instead we changed the whole model, moving to mobile and the cloud, and leaving Microsoft behind. So do we change the social model as well, or is this Gin Lane?

Remote to who? A working letter

tinyletter.com/aworkinglibrary/letters/remote-to-who-a-working-letter
It was probably inevitable that sitting through a whole lot of job interviews and considering several offers would mean I would end up spending a disproportionate amount of time these past months thinking about what work means to me. This is a topic I am predisposed to (witness the title of this newsletter), and the activity of applying for jobs pretty much made everything else unthinkable. What I’m sharing today is some very rough thoughts about one corner of the way we talk about w...

UNCUT

uncut.wtf/
Open source typeface catalogue, focusing on somewhat contemporary type