Victor Loux → Bookmarks

Building Your Color Palette

refactoringui.com/previews/building-your-color-palette/

• design, tag
• palette, tag
• UX, tag
• colour, tag
• teaching, tag
• ·4 years ago

Your company's Slack is probably sexist — Quartz at Work

qz.com/work/1128150/your-companys-slack-is-probably-sexist/

• gender, tag
• sexism, tag
• diversity, tag
• slack, tag
• ·4 years ago

Optimizing things in the USSR · Chris Said

chris-said.io/2016/05/11/optimizing-things-in-the-ussr/

• data_science, tag
• economics, tag
• optimisation, tag
• ·4 years ago

So you've made a mistake and it's public... - Meta

meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/So_you%27ve_made_a_mistake_and_it%27s_public...

• management, tag
• psychology, tag
• community, tag
• advice, tag
• apologies, tag
• publicity, tag
• ·4 years ago

What distinguishes great software engineers?

faculty.washington.edu/ajko/papers/Li2019WhatDistinguishesEngineers.pdf

• filetype:pdf, tag
• software, tag
• engineering, tag
• career, tag
• leadership, tag
• best_practices, tag
• ·4 years ago

How do you write simple explanations without sounding condescending?

jvns.ca/blog/2020/11/15/simple-explanations-without-sounding-condescending/

How do you write simple explanations without sounding condescending?

• advice, tag
• communication, tag
• writing, tag
• blogging, tag
• ·4 years ago

How the U.S. Military Buys Location Data from Ordinary Apps

vice.com/en/article/jgqm5x/us-military-location-data-xmode-locate-x

• privacy, tag
• government, tag
• data, tag
• surveillance, tag
• databrokers, tag
• ·4 years ago

June 10, 1990: Miracle of BA Flight 5390 as captain is sucked out of the cockpit – and survives | BT

home.bt.com/news/on-this-day/june-10-1990-miracle-of-ba-flight-5390-as-captain-is-sucked-out-of-the-cockpit-and-survives-11363985642960

• story, tag
• aviation, tag
• accident, tag
• planes, tag
• ·4 years ago

Trump Is Trying to Overturn the Election, but I’m Not Panicking—Yet | The Nation

thenation.com/article/politics/biden-victory-trump-lawsuit/

All the reasons I think the Trump-GOP gambit to deny Biden’s victory will not change the fact that he will become president on January 20.

• america, tag
• democracy, tag
• politics, tag
• suppression, tag
• law, tag
• ·4 years ago

SvgPathEditor

yqnn.github.io/svg-path-editor/

Online editor to create and manipulate SVG paths

• bezier, tag
• creator, tag
• svg, tag
• tools, tag
• curve, tag
• editor, tag
• graphics, tag
• path, tag
• ·4 years ago

Response to Kohavi's note on non-significance in A/B testing - Big Data, Plainly Spoken (aka Numbers Rule Your World)

junkcharts.typepad.com/numbersruleyourworld/2020/01/response-to-kohavis-note-on-non-significance-in-ab-testing.html

Kaiser Fung (Principal Analytics Prep, Numbersense) explains a note on A/B testing by Ron Kohavi, which advises against adopting treatments deemed statistically insignificant.

• analytics, tag
• decisions, tag
• errors, tag
• data, tag
• shipping, tag
• a/b_testing, tag
• ·4 years ago

Jacques Corby-Tuech - Marketers are Addicted to Bad Data

jacquescorbytuech.com/writing/marketers-addicted-bad-data

• business, tag
• advertising, tag
• marketing, tag
• data, tag
• ads, tag
• ·4 years ago

Origami Simulator

origamisimulator.org/

• origami, tag
• 3d, tag
• webgl, tag
• simulation, tag
• visualisation, tag
• ·4 years ago

A Spectre is Haunting Unicode

dampfkraft.com/ghost-characters.html

• unicode, tag
• history, tag
• japanese, tag
• language, tag
• encoding, tag
• typography, tag
• characters, tag
• ·4 years ago

Kitchen Cleaning Hacks | Kitchn

thekitchn.com/kitchen-cleaning-hacks-264886

The presents have been unwrapped, the parties are over, you're back to work, and now it's time to face the new year — and the state of your house.

• clean, tag
• home, tag
• cleaning, tag
• lifehack, tag
• diy, tag
• domestic, tag
• house, tag
• ·4 years ago

Common Causes of Very Bad Decisions · Collaborative Fund

collaborativefund.com/blog/bad-decisions/

Italian psychologist Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini was once asked why people keep making the same mistakes. He said: Inattention, distraction, lack of interest, poor preparation, genuine stupidity, timidity, braggadocio, emotional imbalance, ideological, racial, social or chauvinistic prejudices, and aggressive or prevaricatory instincts. Let me add some more: Incentives can tempt good people to push the boundaries farther than they’d ever imagine. Financial boundaries, moral boundarie...

• decision_making, tag
• mental_models, tag
• risk, tag
• business, tag
• psychology, tag
• ·4 years ago

Design better by avoiding your cognitive biases | Koos Looijesteijn

kooslooijesteijn.net/blog/design-better-avoiding-cognitive-biases

• mental_models, tag
• psychology, tag
• design, tag
• cognitive_bias, tag
• ·4 years ago

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programmers » Discipline doesn’t scale

sicpers.info/2020/10/discipline-doesnt-scale/

• programming, tag
• career, tag
• discipline, tag
• best_practices, tag
• ·4 years ago

Coding with voice dictation using Talon Voice · Josh W Comeau

joshwcomeau.com/accessibility/hands-free-coding/

Earlier this year, I developed Cubital Tunnel Syndrome, a repetitive-strain injury, in both of my elbows. As a result, I pretty much can't…

• accessibility, tag
• programming, tag
• code, tag
• dictation, tag
• coding, tag
• hands-free, tag
• ·4 years ago

To Understand Facebook Today, Read Its Earliest Critics | by Joanne McNeil | Oct, 2020 | OneZero

onezero.medium.com/to-understand-facebook-today-read-its-earliest-critics-ca2ca15480ab

Hardly a week goes by without another Facebook scandal. Frustration with Facebook and criticism of it — even despair over it and outright hatred of it — seems constant, evergreen. It’s been this way…

• ethics, tag
• criticism, tag
• social_media, tag
• facebook, tag
• books, tag
• ·4 years ago