Victor Loux Bookmarks

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What’s the Fastest Way to Alphabetize Your Bookshelf?

kottke.org/24/10/whats-the-fastest-way-to-alphabetize-your-bookshelf
Let’s say you’ve got a bunch of books that need to be sorted alphabetically by author. What’s the fastest way

Earth will have a temporary 'mini moon' for two months

apnews.com/article/mini-moon-earth-asteroid-astronomy-d68656845bd2762095bb39ce9d619e6b
Earth will have a temporary “mini moon” for two months. The mini moon is actually an asteroid about the size of a school bus.

Birth control for Gen Z men: Pharma's next reproductive push

axios.com/2024/09/30/male-birth-control-pill-gen-z
Mounting abortion restrictions across the U.S. are driving a search for new contraceptive methods that can be reversed.

🤿 Dive Club | Janum Trivedi — What makes a software product feel great

dive.club/deep-dives/janum-trivedi
Dive Club features interviews and articles that unlock knowledge from today's top designers like Janum Trivedi (Prototyping + design at Airbnb).

The Joyful Utility of Yeeting Pufflings Off Cliffs

kottke.org/24/09/the-joyful-utility-of-yeeting-pufflings-off-cliffs
In coastal cities in Iceland, including on the Vestmannaeyjar archipelago, it’s common to see people out at night, hunting f

Rowboat

rowboat.xyz/
Welcome to Rowboat–a lightning fast tool for understanding large datasets. Sign in or create a free account to get started.

Undersociality: miscalibrated social cognition can inhibit social connection

sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1364661322000432
A person’s well-being depends heavily on forming and maintaining positive relationships, but people can be reluctant to connect in ways that would cre…

Previously unknown Mozart music discovered in German library

theguardian.com/music/2024/sep/19/previously-unknown-mozart-music-discovered-in-german-library
Piece dating from 1760s, probably composed when Mozart was in his early teens, uncovered by researchers in Leipzig

Design tool canvas handles

bjango.com/articles/designtoolcanvashandles/
Design tools often pack a lot of functionality around the bounding box of selected objects. Some of this functionality is represented by handles or icons, but a lot of it is hidden.

Blur radius comparison

bjango.com/articles/blurradiuscomparison/
The most common type of blur used on the web and in design tools is Gaussian blur. There’s many ways to describe how blurry the blur is, and implementations vary so much that a blur in one app may be a completely different size to the blur in another app.